Team owners relent; strike averted
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NAGOYA-A second weekend baseball strike was averted Thursday after team owners conceded to players&#39; demands and ended the often-nasty labor dispute.
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After signaling contrary intentions the day before, the Red Sox last night elected not to offer salary arbitration to outfielder Trot Nixon, who under the terms of the new collective bargaining agreement could still return to the club, but almost certainly at a much reduced price than the $6.5 million he was paid last season.
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By The Salt Lake Tribune  Jan. 30--In the end, it was red ink, not red cards, that did in the Real  stadium deal.
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Something tells me that 41 years ago when the owners of 24 professional football teams - 15 in the NFL, nine in the AFL - sat down to discuss a playoff game between their respective champions, total harmony did not exist. Chances are pretty good the majority of those owners couldn't agree what day it was.
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TORONTO (CP) - With the NHL season slipping away, players made it clear Tuesday they won&#39;t cave in to team owners. &quot;We&#39;re more united now than we were before,&quot; star defenceman Chris Pronger said after 74 members
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The UAW union ends its strike at General Motors after reaching a tentative deal with the carmaker.
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NHL players are now on the receiving end of that mantra and they don&#39;t like it one bit. But until they accept the business as the owners see it, we&#39;ll continue to ride the merry-go-round that spun us dizzy over the last week.
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The NHL players' association agrees to accept a salary cap, but contract talks break down early Tuesday over the amount that teams would pay.
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Lowell, who could have opted out of his contract because the team hasn&#39;t secured new stadium financing, agreed Friday to a revised deal in which the team guarantees the remaining $25.
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The National Lacrosse League salvaged its 2008 season yesterday by agreeing to a collective bargaining agreement with the players' union.
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Japanese baseball players and club representatives reached a deal Thursday to end the first strike in the 70-year history of the sport in Japan, with owners agreeing to let newcomers into the leagues as early as next season.
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Baseball fans let out a cheer when players cancelled their strike over the planned merger of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and Orix BlueWave.
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Baseball owners took another step toward moving the Montreal Expos to Washington next year, giving conditional approval Friday but hinging their decision on the September agreement that did not cap the cost of a new ballpark.
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A union representing nearly 6,000 US Airways workers yesterday said it has struck a tentative concession deal with the airline, easing the likelihood
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The cracks that were appearing in the NHL Players&#39; Association&#39;s resolve in the last two weeks were apparently smoothed over during a meeting Tuesday in Toronto.
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Locked-out NHL players reaffirmed their solidarity by shoring up cracks in the membership during a four-hour meeting with union leaders Tuesday.
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The brawl has been over for four days, but there&#39;s still plenty to fight about. There was action on several fronts yesterday as the players, the teams, the fans, and law