Players get the message
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The catalyst for the resumption of talks this week between NHL management and the players' association has told his union brethren to be prepared for the lockout to last well into next season.
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Did you get the message? Did who get the message? There was a message? &quot;It was one of those games where you want to send a message out,&quot; Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb
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Many of the players arrive from work still in business-casual attire. They change into their uniforms in the comfort of their cars. They engage in friendly tete-a-tete with the "enemy."
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Try to forget the basketball brawl and this year's other disturbing moments in sports. It's time to say thanks to some of the people who have made sports a better place.
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Players applaud baseball's new steroid agreement that calls for harsher penalties and mandates frequent and offseason testing.
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Mavericks coach Avery Johnson has a message for his team in the wake of Jason Terry getting suspended for punching San Antonio&#039;s Michael Finley between the legs during a scramble for a loose ball.
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How many other teams can make news by finishing two-a-day practices with a bar fight -- not to mention one in which some Thundering Herd knucklehead maybe gives a ticket to the festivities to a player on a team they&#39;ll be playing next month?
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With many of the stars on the U.S. national team playing with Major League Soccer clubs this weekend, some of the younger players got a chance to show they can contribute in international play.
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It was not quite a rallying call in the class of Corporal Jones, but the message from Sven Goran Eriksson sounded worryingly familiar yesterday.
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By Jordan Robertson< Associated Press
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By Mark Snyder, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 9--When the instant messages started, Brent Petway didn't know how to react.   Michigan State fans were taunting the Michigan basketball player last year, and he couldn't figure out how they knew his screen name.
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MIAMI Â· Stan Van Gundy called his players together at the end of Monday&#39;s practice and warned them about overlooking the obvious.
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In its latest quest to overcome crowd noise, the N.F.L. may soon allow visiting teams the benefit of a helmet-to-helmet wireless communication system.
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Everybody at the NFL Players Association is very concerned. They told us so yesterday when the subject of aging and down-on-their-luck former players with minimal pension benefits and poor disability coverage was raised at a union press conference. It came five hours after a small group of former players ripped the union and the league for doing too ...
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NBA, Players&#39; Union Go Before Arbitrator to Debate Suspensions of Four Players Over Mich. Brawl. A fan wearing a T-shirt with a message about the Indiana Pacers watches a large television screen during the
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- For the Notre Dame players, simply winning Saturday&#39;s game against Washington wasn&#39;t enough. &#39;&#39;We wanted to come into the game, put our foot on somebody&#39;s neck and not let up, and I think
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Usually at sporting events, people know who wins and who loses or who comes in first, second, third and so forth by the score. In fact, there is no other way to run athletic competitions; most would agree