Rather than address the challenge of improving the collective-bargaining agreement for the benefit of the game, the union-financed lawsuit attacks virtually every aspect of the current system including the draft, the salary cap and free-agency rules, which collectively have been responsible for the quality and popularity of the game for nearly two decades.
Player animations will include many recorded by Shaquille O'Neal (let's hope they didn't mo-cap his free throw shooting), and you'll be able to save your best replays to memory.
The education secretary who brought in the first tuition fees, David Blunkett, now says it would be "unacceptable to lift the cap and have a free-for-all across universities".
Other utilities are critical of the cap-and-trade approach and particularly of any free allocation processes.
Of course none of those guys are named LeBron James, Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh which was the goal these past two years as the team furiously cleared cap space in hopes of landing multiple big-time free agents.
To cap it all, conservative ideas of deregulation and unfettered free-market capitalism have been brought into disrepute by the financial turmoil south of the border.
With TV revenue-sharing, free agency and a hard salary cap, the NFL is designed to prevent a reign akin to that of baseball's New York Yankees.
When the NHL and its players agreed to a salary cap this summer, it marked the end of the free-spending ways of teams like the Rangers and Red Wings.
They also want to limit a rule allowing teams to exceed the league's salary cap when re-signing any of their players who have become free-agents on expiry of existing contracts.
In Europe's cap-and-trade scheme, the European Union allocated emissions allowances for free to emitters of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.
And, unless you're Spider-Man (or Lynn Hill, the first person to free climb El Cap), you have to resort to aid to ascend it.
Then on Wednesday, Switzerland, not a member of the EU but part of its passport-free travel zone, invoked a special safeguard clause that allows it to cap the number of workers from 28 European countries.
The more volatile cap-and-trade system, however, is easier to sell to producers, who can get free allowances when the scheme is introduced.
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