A Franchise Faces Growing Pains
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Bring a sandwich. This Jason Campbell project may take a while. In fact, bring a couple of seasons' worth of provisions. Some extra-strength pain relievers wouldn't hurt. For your raw nerves, soothing postgame music might not be a bad idea.
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Two storied franchises - the Montreal Canadiens and Liverpool soccer club - are coming under the same roof.Comment
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If you spend, they will come. It can be done. You can turn around a franchise and head it in the right direction in a few days. The Arizona Diamondbacks were the worst team in baseball in 2004, losing 111 games.
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The Los Angeles Lakers should be accustomed to tumult, conflict and controversy by now. What the venerable NBA franchise must get used to in the post-Shaq era is enduring all that drama with little hope of winning a championship.
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They're a strange bunch. You look at their roster and see images of rotary telephones. You remember almost all of them in short pants and a lot of them playing in the NBA before there ever was such a thing as a Toronto Raptor or Vancouver Grizzly.
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Competition makes for a dreary outlook for the company.
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Los Angeles -- What cruelty this business of baseball is. A team grinds and claws and bites its way to 91 wins, only to find it takes 92 to keep its World Series aspirations alive.
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The Rangersâ injury problems have made their playoff run precarious.
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As its rivals have diversified and taken risks, the Coca-Cola Company has struggled to reinvent itself.
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The death of a Quiznos franchise owner illustrates a growing sense of desperation and frustration toward the corporation.
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The athletic shoe and apparel retailer continues its struggles.
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The company is fumbling in its attempts to move to a new business model.
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Once considered a rebuilding project, the Carolina Panthers' offensive line has become a concern as injuries mount.
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With a three-game set vs. Florida, Montreal bids adieu to its pro baseball team Hurdles exist, but relocation process now appears irreversible, by Richard Griffin.
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A big company needs some big ideas in order to grow bigger.
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Video game maker needs to work on its brand management.
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If MLB and the DC Council fail to reach an agreement to keep the Nationals in Washington, baseball would be faced with the difficult question of what to do with the league-owned franchise next season.