"Yahoo's Carol Bartz publicly using expletives, and female sports reporter Renee Gork showing up to cover Arkansas football with a Florida Gators cap on, " Goudreau wrote.

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McGinley, who sank the winning putt in the 2002 Ryder Cup, started having knee problems as a 19-year-old when he broke his left knee-cap playing gaelic football, an injury that turned him towards golf.

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The NHL's cap is more draconian than the one imposed by the National Football League, where teams can end-run the cap--at least for a while--with signing bonuses.

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Blame the league's strict salary cap, which keeps football stars from being paid as much as their counterparts in basketball and baseball--plus, those pesky helmets keep most NFL stars from being well recognized, except pitchman extraordinaire Peyton Manning, who just missed our list.

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Ask the wealthy players and owners of the National League Football League, whose economic structure includes a salary cap and heavy revenue sharing, if they feel like socialists.

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The 34-year-old defender, who won his first cap back in 2002, has played club football in Tunisia, Qatar, Czech Republic and France, but this is a career highlight.

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It's a final slog to cap an already brutal season, and survival of it is required to reach college football's pinnacle.

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Generally, those that have actually led to lengthy work stoppages share the common trait of a single lightning rod issue, like football players trying to win free agency in the 1980s or baseball owners trying to institute a salary cap in the 1990s.

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