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Chris Sprow...the Florida teams and Phoenix have been running red ink for years, and now rely on a salary capped league and other machinations to pay the bills. In Phoenix, apparently bills haven't been paid...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...level players may take a hit. Even massive deals for great players could suffer. For years NBA salaries have escalated to the point where a massive deal for a player like Brian Cardinal was greeted...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 22, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...was due a $1.5 million roster bonus on Tuesday, so he was gone on Monday. His salary-cap number for this season would have been $5.75 million. Now, sayanora. Stories like this dominate...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 03, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...level of cynicism is toward college basketball—if you insist on pointing to the corruption, coaching salaries, or belabor the fact that Kevin Durant would be a junior right now and it's a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 26, 2009NFL Draft: Trading Down Makes You Go Up? In Most Cases, Yep.
Chris SprowJim Schwartz, first year head coach of the Detroit Lions, says he learned more from Bill Belichick than anyone else. "Watching him cross every 't' a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 19, 2009
The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...Bowling Green might spend $5 million on football for an entire season, from chin straps to coaching salaries. Alabama might spend that just on a tutoring center for athletes. Ultimately, what Signing Day means is...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 04, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...2008 by skipping minicamp, watching training camp from the sidelines, whining about his $3.25 million yearly salary and milking a phantom ankle injury. The receiver's laziness and ego resulted in a predictably lackluster...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 28, 2009The NEXT: LeBron Story to Read Into
Chris Sprow...Big Red Dot on Jupiter into a Swoosh. Recently, a certain New York team also dumped enough salary to make a run at not just LeBron, but perhaps another top name. (When does Donnie Walsh...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2008THE MLB SEASON ... BY THE NUMBERS
Chris Sprow...mdash; Total number of starts made by Mike Hampton in 2006-2008. $42,503,543 — Total salary paid to Hampton during said period. $4.405 million — Combined salaries of Cliff Lee and Tim...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2008WHAT THE HELL...
Chris Sprow...450-yard drive, "That'll play." 3. He's a bargain! In fact, if you combine the salaries of the two guys who should win the Cy Young Awards in their respective leagues, Lee and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 2008THE PRINTED WORD: ROSENHAUS, BY THE BOOK
Chris Sprow...could handle it. "I know as much about the game, the players, the negotiating process and the salary cap as anybody. Of course, I never could. Not with my conflicts of interest, and with all...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 05, 2008POLITICS AND SPORTS: LEANING LEFT?
Chris SprowJohn McCain and Barack Obama are both left-handed, a peculiar parallel that seems to affirm, rather than afflict, leaders. As a recent New York Sun ar...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 08, 2008BREAKING: KOBE ($) > SHAQ ($) ... AND HIS OWN COACH?
Chris Sprow...player in the entire league who voted against the agreement because of the cap it puts on salaries." And then: BAM! Kobe tops Shaq for the first time ever when the rankings came out yesterday...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 06, 2008FORTY CHEERS: CELEBRATING FRANK THOMAS
Chris Sprow...You've never pulled down more than $10 million in a season despite playing in the helium salary era. Either have we! You're an everyman! -You were born in the same town as George...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 27, 2008EDITOR'S PICKS
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