Pro team owners play political game
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Pro sports team owners can also be big-time players - in politics. NFL, NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and NASCAR Nextel Cup team owners, commissioners and spouses contributed at least &#36;14.6 million to national political candidates, parties and other political advocacy groups in the two years leading into Tuesday's election.
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The owners of the Super Bowl participants spoke Monday, wished each other well, and now will let their teams fight it out for the championship Feb. 6 in Jacksonville, Fla.
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With a &quot;NO&quot; banner in the foreground, Washington Mayor Anthony Williams, right, DC Sports Commission Chairman Mark Tuohey, left, and others, look as a the DC City Council debates stadium finance legislation for the return of Major League Baseball
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By JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer. a job that might last only a few months while the team is being sold. funding for a new ballpark.
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Normally, the Major League Baseball Players Association&#39;s executive board meetings gather about as much attention as a Brewer-Pirate game.
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In such a tight race, the game is about turning out your supporters. TIME goes inside the ground war
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In the aftermath of the fiasco that was the Pacers-Pistons game last Friday night, you would think that pro sports leagues would be looking to move fans farther away from the action.
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The New England Patriots like to attribute their winning season to playing as a team. But when it comes to marketing deals, the Super Bowl champions may be victims of their own success.
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Hometown fans are often more tolerant of an athlete whose alleged behavior on or off the field has drawn the ire of others.
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After owners indulge their fantasy of buying a team, they tend to start viewing the team as a business.
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Because there haven&#39;t been too many of them recently, the word `` dynasty&#39;&#39; is tossed around all too freely when there&#39;s talk of dominant professional sports teams.
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There are a lot of ways to run a big-time sports team, as the sale of the Cavs shows.
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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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Major League Baseball and the players union are negotiating a new contract, and the gameÂs rising attendance and revenue give both sides reason to keep the peace.
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If certain people show up, today&#39;s meeting of NHL Players&#39; Association executives and members in Toronto could turn into a passionate debate between the union&#39;s haves and have-nots.
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It&#39;s a conflict between personal faith and modern-day, big-money sports, a matter of private belief open to public scrutiny. And it poses a question: Where does an athlete&#39;s allegiance lie when religion collides with sport?
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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?