NFL should learn from NHL, MLB shutdowns
Anyone looking for historical precedent for a possible National Football League lockout might learn more from baseball and hockey than from the NFL’s most recent work stoppage. That occurred in 1987, when the players’ 24-day strike canceled the third week of games, then prompted the owners’ use of replacement players for the next three weeks. read more
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A’s owner Lew Wolff waits for commissioner’s call
Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff has the spot for a new ballpark all picked out. Funding is in place and the San Jose mayor is on board with Wolff’s plan to relocate his club some 40 miles south.
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Jorgensen a baseball ‘lifer’
Mike Jorgensen spent 17 years as a player in Major League Baseball, including five full seasons with the Expos, beginning in 1972, after the first baseman/ outfielder was acquired in a trade with the New York Mets.
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A’s owner Lew Wolff waits for commissioner’s call
Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff has the spot for a new ballpark all picked out. Funding is in place and the San Jose mayor is on board with Wolff’s plan to relocate his club some 40 miles south. Wolff has been waiting two years for his old fraternity brother, commissioner Bud Selig, to tell him whether he can go ahead with his proposal to move the A’s from Oakland into Santa Clara County…
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