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With the Yankees paying about half his salary, A.J. Burnett has become an ace for the Pirates. Excuse us, the first-place Pirates.

The Cardinals agreed to terms with Adam Wainwright this week on a five-year, $97.5 million deal, the latest reminder that baseball is swimming in cash, and that salaries will continue to soar. Let's start with this: Wainwright is a very good pitch...

Never let it be said that the Designated Player backs down from a fight. Whether it's demanding that The European cuts a few of the makeweights to bump my salary up to a living (large) wage, or calling out my rookie left back on Twitter ("@genericclo...

With salaries growing faster than the salary cap, NFL teams can sit back and wait for the bargains.

A few quick notes on the Grizzlies trading Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington, Josh Selby, and a future first-round pick to Cleveland for Jon Leuer in a deal that is almost completely about Memphis going from $4.3 million over the luxury tax, to arou...

The modern NFL is a game of matchups. Since the salary cap and the spread of strategic concepts throughout the league prevent a team from dominating the way that the 1980s Niners or the early-'90s Cowboys did, just about every team in football has on...

Marcel Meyer was a 17-year-old kid playing football at Westfield High School in Houston, Texas, when the program got a new head football coach. "It was a huge deal because our high school paid him $100,000-a-year salary, plus a 'company car.' The oth...

In November 2007, Citigroup Chairman Charles Prince walked away from his post with $99 million in vested stock holdings and a pension. During his four-year tenure running the company, he banked more than $53 million in salary. Prince, a former lawyer...

My first Salary Cap Fantasy Basketball draft occurred entirely online between 16 people who didn't really know one another, and lasted five and a half days. This sounds like hell because it is hell. For the better part of a week, I sat on my couch an...

With a touch of homage to their 1994 Expos forefathers, the Nationals climb to the top of the charts.

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. Dwyane Wade scored 40 points and LeBron James added 28 as the Heat advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals with a 105-93 win over the Pacers and a 4-2...

Every week, Grantland's staff watches all 200 million videos on YouTube and picks their favorites. Bill Simmons: Here's a special NBC pregame segment about the NBA lockout. You'll learn that salaries have increased by 500 percent over the past 10 ...