... which an appeals court wrote, "A league with one team would be like one hand clapping." The NFL argued that professional sports leagues should be deemed single entities for purposes of antitrust law, at least concerning core venture functions ...

... legislation in 2005, proposing to mandate stronger steroid testing and penalties for baseball and other U.S. professional sports leagues. Another congressional committee has scheduled a Jan. 23 hearing on the Mitchell Report.

... dinner on the rooftop at Gramercy Park Hotel hosted by NASCAR chairman Brian France. It caps a rare day by a professional sports league that groups all of its championship contenders together for an entire day of camaraderie. "There's a lot ...

... directed at NASCAR, which finds itself trying to help its teams while not creating a welfare system. Unlike most professional sports leagues, NASCAR doesn't have franchises and all its participants are viewed as independent contractors free to come ...

... directed at NASCAR, which finds itself trying to help its teams while not creating a welfare system. Unlike most professional sports leagues, NASCAR doesn't have franchises and all its participants are viewed as independent contractors free to come ...

... handwringing and trepidation about the future of the game. The National Basketball Association is the most appreciated professional sports league in the world. Yes, Jordan's phenomenal ability and success had something to do with that. But they weren ...

... that day, Stern will recommend wiping out the entire 1998-99 schedule. It would be the first time a major professional sports league in North America lost an entire season of competition. ''If we do not have a collective bargaining agreement ...

... his memo, Fahrenkopf said: "The NCAA claims that other national organizations would join them, but that professional sports leagues would not seek to repeal the Nevada exemption for professional sports." Fahrenkopf said Dempsey told him ...

... rural areas. Clinton started his tour in Newark, N.J., announcing a series of inner-city commitments by professional sports leagues, then went on to Hartford, Conn., where he toured El Mercado, an indoor marketplace that is helping revitalize ...

... University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, is involved in a variety of orientation programs with professional sports leagues. He is also in a position to know reliable numbers about athletes and crimes. Lapchick said there is not ...