Player salaries had been rising faster than revenues, and owners had demanded a salary cap.
On cbssportsline.com, you can also download the unofficial, but widely accepted, player salaries.
The NFL is set on getting control of rookie player costs which will also help lower all player salaries.
Without the leverage that would have come from multiple teams bidding for their services, player salaries were artificially suppressed.
The gulf between NBA owners and players is Grand Canyon size with owners looking to roll back player salaries 33%.
The baseball numbers Forbes usually concentrates on are off the field--attendance, ticket prices, television deals, player salaries and sponsorship dollars.
Many clubs in Europe also have a significant amount of debt due to high player salaries and global outreach campaigns.
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Television is making the sports world go round these days whether it is college conference realignment or fueling higher player salaries.
But it was the shrewd move by DeMaurice Smith and the NFLPA that really makes the deal kick up player salaries.
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We combined these ratings with player salaries to determine which players were the best bargains and which were the most overpriced.
The league's salary cap keeps a lid on individual player salaries, and few players outside of Peyton Manning collect big endorsement deals.
That was the finance directors' main concern at the time, followed by falling gate receipts, inflexible player salaries and difficulty in attracting sponsors.
As player salaries rose, and the gulf widened between big market and small market clubs, owners turned increasingly to adminstrative types to run their clubs.
Between 1995 and 1999, every World Series game was won by a team in the richest 25% of clubs (as measured by total player salaries).
In conversation with Forbes, Faus noted that player salaries are the major challenge for any major team looking to bring costs down to a sustainable level.
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The disparities can be explained by the NBA's larger revenues from national television and merchandise, as well as greater restrictions on player salaries (see NBA owners score big).
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which manages the IPL, terminated the Chargers last week for failing to make several payments, including player salaries.
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Bettman insists that the league needs to run under a more rigid salary cap, and make sure there are no signing bonuses or back-loaded contracts to player salaries.
It was in the 1970s that free agency came to professional sports and player salaries skyrocketed, in due course becoming a pre-set share of gross revenues of the sport.
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Data on manager salaries is sketchy and rarely publicized, so it's difficult to say whether managers' salaries are exploding in the same way player salaries did a decade ago.
It can be argued that much of the increase in player salaries and team owner wealth in the NFL over the last twenty years has come at the expense of taxpayers.
Here's the double whammy: Beginning with the 2001-02 season, players will be slapped with a penalty tax if the owners spend more than 55% of the NBA's revenues on player salaries.
The company also warns that there are risks unique to its industry, including competition for key players, as well as increases in operating costs, such as player salaries and transfer costs.
If I want to see the game, I accept one of the options the Garden offers me, and my ticket money is what helps to fund renovations, player salaries and administrative costs.
That compares with other global sports leagues where rising player salaries have seen the top players gravitate to the bigger clubs as they are the only ones that can afford their wages.
They help enhance profits because paying for stadium improvements means the corporate owners have to borrow less, pay less interest, and thereby reinvest those savings in interest payments into player salaries or hiring and retaining top executive talent.
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The SocZ also identifies other areas to create a national soccer culture, including soccer-specialized journalists (who have both a technical and global sense of the game), sports medicine experts, top referees and coaches, and corporate sponsors (for higher player salaries).
While labor strife isn't necessarily a sign of financial turmoil, labor peace is often a leading indicator of stability, at least in sports, where struggling owners often blame their woes on player salaries and try to organize attempts to roll back compensation.
Those cases were ultimately settled in 1992 and 1993 when the league and the players association came up with a collective-bargaining agreement that provided players with a path to free agency but included a strict limit of how much each team could spend on player salaries.
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