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Gaining the Correct Golf Swing Plane
The golf swing plane is the direction that your golf club travels during your swing. This is a very important key to playing golf correctly and well. Imagine a sheet of glass that extends from the ball to over your shoulders. A correct swing plane...
Ness Notes (Jan 9)
The NFL expanded its playoff-field to 12 teams in 1990. Heading
into last year's wild card round, home teams had DOMINATED this
round of games, winning 42 of the 56 previously played. However,
the Colts were the only home team to win in last...
Ten excuses why people don't do fitness exercise.
Here's a list of reasons that people give to get out of doing fitness exercises. Obviously you are not one of these people and you have put in to action a plan to regularly exercise and keep fit.
1) I am too busy right now, I'll start next week....
Top 25 College Football Rankings are Meaningless!
What is he talking about? If you think Top 25 Rankings are a great way to handicap football games, let me lend some friendly advice. I have to admit that I would be hard pressed to name more than 20 of the Top 25 teams going into this weekends games...
Top 3 NFL picks for Sunday September 25th
Top Play: Pittsburgh Steelers -3 over New England
I've seen a few pundits weigh in on the Patriots, saying they'll be "more focused" after losing at Carolina. I don't believe a lack of focus plays into this one that much. Patriots are a...
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NHL Hockey Fans Left Out In Cold As The NHL Owners Lock Out Its Players
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has halted the start of the NHL hockey season by locking out its players. Can the impasse between the NHL owners and its players ever be mended? Bettman reports that the NHL league has a desolate bottom line that lost $224 million US last season. The NHL hockey league is reported to have lost $1.8 billion over the 10 years of its collective bargaining agreement.
Bob Goodenow, the executive director for the NHL Player’s Association has another version of the story, claiming that it’s not true at all. In the middle of this dispute is the salary cap. Goodenow concedes that the hockey players do indeed, make a lot of money. The salary cap is a device whereby the NHL team owners would remunerate the players less than they would normally get and the owners aren’t budging on the issue. And for now, it’s a stalemate.
But who, other than the owners, got the game into this mess. The owners, themselves have trailblazed into unstable market areas and unwisely, perhaps, invested most of their money into player’s salaries instead of marketing and promotion. The owners have used the game of hockey to secure guaranteed programming for their
cable TV investments or used professional hockey, for example, as an add on to an amusement park.
The players on the other hand, have worked tremendously hard from such a young age to become a spectacular athletics. Starting with the 6 a.m. morning practices involving numerous years in minor hockey. Given the above, it’s no wonder why the players have little or no trust where the owners are concerned. The players have little faith in the numbers that the owners report. There is question about moving expenses from one business entity to another and dubious accounting of their ticket revenue.
The future of professional hockey is dependent upon a strong economic system. But what is that system? Some argue that the 2004-05 season is in jeopardy. If the season is cancelled, the Stanley Cup will not be awarded to any team and this hasn’t happened since 1919 and Saturday night won’t be the same in Canada without hockey.
About The Author
Catherine Kenyeres is a freelance writer and publisher of http://www.best-4u-tickets.com. She has written numerous articles for the sports enthusiast.
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