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Collective Bargaining Sure To Impact Cavaliers Rebuilding Process
As most of you know by now, the NFL isn’t the only sport facing the danger of a lockout on the horizon. With the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement set to expire on June 30, 2011, and both sides...
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NFL Players Association Asking Too Much of Undrafted Players
Labor disputes are never pretty. We knew that when the NFL Players Association decertified in an attempt to preempt any potential lockout that this process was going to become long and ugly. The...
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NBA Reportedly Proposing Franchise Player System Into New CBA
Over the last couple weeks we’ve been focusing pretty heavily on the NBA offseason. Even though the NBA postseason is currently going, it’s abundantly clear that most Cleveland sports fans don’t care....
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Colt McCoy: Motivated By Detractors, Shoulder Feels Good
Colt McCoy made an appearance on ESPN 850 WKNR this past Thursday, and if you missed any of that, a few highlights are posted below. Shouts out to Chris Fedor for writing it all down and sending it...
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NFL Free Agency: Who Should the Browns Bring Back?
As there appears to be a light at the end of the NFL lockout tunnel, the Cleveland Browns will be one of 32 teams forced to hit the ground running in the proposed altered schedule of league affairs....
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Should NFL Players Support Manning, Brees, Jackson and Mankins?
Yesterday I said that I didn’t feel like talking about the NFL and their lawsuits. Apparently that was just a fleeting feeling yesterday. This morning I read a column by Jason Cole at Yahoo!...
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Dan Gilbert Among Owners Holding Hard Line Stance in NBA Negotiations
As the days begin to shorten and the weather feels more like fall every day, this should be a time to enjoy the start of football while gearing up for another season of NBA basketball. Well, fans can...
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Dear Professional Football…
It is really good to have you back. It was unfortunate that we had to witness your “near breakup” played out in public over the last year. Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of...
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Dan Gilbert Fires Back at the Sports Guy…Kind of
Dan Gilbert’s name is in the headlines once again. Fourteen months after his scorched earth letter about the “self-proclaimed chosen one,” the majority owner of the Clevleand Cavaliers is allegedly...
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Dan Gilbert Back On the Forbes 400 List
Forbes Magazine released their list of the 400 wealthiest Americans this week, and a familiar name to Cleveland sports fans made a return to the list. Cleveland Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert, founder...
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NBA Owners Budge, Give Up on Hard Cap Stance
As the NBA lockout creeps past 90 days and counting, the league has already experienced the loss of the start of training camp and at minimum half the preseason. As the shades on the window of hope...
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NBA Lockout: Delonte West Finally Lands a Job
Though the alleged run with Home Depot didn’t go as planned, former Cavaliers guard Delonte West has found himself some gainful, stateside employment as a stock boy for Regency Furniture. The DC-based...
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NBA Owners Discuss Hard Cap Alternatives While Regular Season Hangs in the...
The day of reckoning for the NBA is rapidly approaching. With owners and union officials meeting this week, several concessions were made by owners that gave fans a reason for either optimism or angst,...
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Blame Game in NBA Lockout Is Beneficial To No One
Tuesday represents a make or break day for the NBA owners and players, as a serious, legitimate framework of a deal must be reached today in order for there to be a complete NBA season. If/when a deal...
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NBA Cancels Games, but For What Purpose?
So it finally happened. For the 2nd time in his reign as Commissioner Supreme of the National Basketball Association, David Stern has cancelled regular season games. In theory there was an 11th hour...
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NBA Lockout: Stars Taking Over Negotiations?
As the NBA lockout continues and heads to mediation this week, there remains few signs of hope for a season. Chris Sheridan links to a profile of George Cohen, the man who will be mediating this mess....
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Could Amnesty Land Baron Davis in Miami?
(Editor’s note: The following post resides mostly in the land of hypotheticals. Given the continual unknown surrounding the NBA, it’s really all we have to discuss…) What if Baron Davis ended up with...
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NBA Lockout Update: Splits, Systems, Ultimatums, and Deadlines
Yesterday I was optimistic. If you’re the type of person who believes things tend to get worse right before the moment they get better, the standoff between NBA owners and NBA players was looking like...
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Yes, the timing of this is a little peculiar. Just days after NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that we are in the nuclear winter of the lockout with the Union choosing to file a Disclaimer of...
View ArticleReport: NBA Owners Discussing Revenue Sharing
When the NBA owners and players agreed to end the lock out, I think most people thought that was the end of all talks about competitive balance. However, as it turns out, the owners argued that revenue...
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