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NFF College Hall of Fame board memberand Oklahoma director of athletics JoeCastiglione has been named to the NCAADivision I men's basketballcommittee…UAlbany AD Lee McElroywill be inducted into the John McLendonMinority Athletics Administrators Hall ofFame as the NACDA representative in2012… UCF appointed Al Harms as inter-im AD…Former Arkansas associate ADfor student services Melissa Harwood-Rom has been named senior associatedean of students at UA…Veronica O'Brienhas become academic support coordinatorwith UC Riverside athletics.

In South Bend, Ind., Friday at the NationalFootball Foundation College Hall ofFame, children ages 12 and under areinvited to visit the Hall of Fame free ofcharge the day following Thanksgiving!Kids are encouraged to wear their favoritefootball gear, participate in a scavengerhunt and receive a complimentary Hall ofFame goody bag as they explore collegefootball's greatest shrine for free with onepaid adult admission on Friday. Bring thewhole family in for a day of fun or use theopportunity to let Mom get a start onChristmas shopping! Not only will chil-dren be able to soak in the rich history ofcollege football, but they can also starttraining for future Hall of Famer statuswith the Hall's many interactive elementsincluding scavenger hunts, football triviaand much more.

Brigham Young has been invited to jointhe Big East Conference for footballonly… The Big Ten Conference was thefirst to reach eight teams with '11 bowl eli-gibility… Michigan State will representthe Big Ten Legends Representative in theinaugural Big Ten Football ChampionshipGame against either Penn State orWisconsin from the LeadersDivision...The Top Five teams in Big Eaststandings entering this week's contestseach have two losses...The ColonialAthletic Association leads NCAA FCSwith five entries (one automatic, four at-large) in the 2011 postseason joust. It's thethird time in FCS annals one conferencehas had a record five of the 20entrants...UAlbany won its fifth outright orshared Northeast Conference title since1999 last Saturday and is going to NCAAFCS playoffs for the first time in schoolhistory...SEC ADs spent last Tuesday andWednesday hoping to finalize eight-gameconference slates for 2012…ConferenceUSA had eight teams still eligible for 2011bowl invitations prior to Nov. 17-19 stand-


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By Vance Gonzales/Correspondent/[email protected]

Courtesy Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski

The NBA and the Players Association have reached a ten-tative agreement to end the five-month old lockout andstart the league’s 2011-12 season on Dec. 25.

After 16 hours of negotiations Friday, the two sidesreached a handshake agreement a little after 3 a.m. ET inNew York. Both sides must still get a majority vote fromthe 29 owners and 450 players to finalize the agreement –as well as negotiate a series of smaller issues like a drugtesting policy.

The owners made “significant moves” toward the playerson several important system issues that long separated thetwo sides, a union source told Yahoo! Sports Saturdaymorning. “There’s still some tweaking to those that needsto be done,” the source said.

NBA commissioner David Stern said training campswould open Dec. 9 if owners and players vote to ratify thelabor deal.

After the tentative agreement was announced, some play-ers privately said they would not vote for the deal, believ-ing they had conceded too much to the owners. Still, thereis not believed to be enough support to block ratification.

“We’re optimistic that the [agreement] will hold and we’llhave ourselves an NBA season,” NBA commissionerDavid Stern said at a brief news conference held in NewYork with Players Association executive director BillyHunter and president Derek Fisher(notes).

Free agency and training camps will start on Dec. 9, Sternsaid. Under the current agreement, the regular seasonwould have a 66-game schedule that begins on ChristmasDay with three games: Boston Celtics at the New YorkKnicks; Miami Heat at the Dallas Mavericks; and ChicagoBulls at the Los Angeles Lakers.

“It’s finally great to wake up to this kind of news,”Houston Rockets guard Kevin Martin said.

After disbanding as a union and filing an antitrust suit

against the NBA, the Players Association needs to reformas a union and hold a vote to ratify the deal. The terms ofthe agreement included a 50-50 revenue split between theowners and players, a source said.

“We thought it was in both of our interest to try to reach aresolution and save the game and to be able to provide themind of superb entertainment the NBA historically hasprovided,” Hunter said.

The negotiating session nearly came undone in the earlymoments on Friday night when Players Association coun-

sel Jeffrey Kessler told Stern and the NBA’s negotiatingteam through a speaker phone that the players wanted tomove back to a 51 percent revenue split, a league sourcetold Y! Sports. Stern, labor relations committee chairmanPeter Holt and deputy commissioner Adam Silver termedthe proposal “unacceptable,” and soon left the conferenceroom.

The players were feeling out how much leverage theirantitrust lawsuits gave them, sources said, but it’s longbeen clear that Stern didn’t have ownership support to gobeyond 50 percent. The players had a 57 percent share ofthe revenue split in the last collective bargaining agree-ment, and the move to 50-50 could shift as much as $3 bil-lion to the owners over the course of a 10-year agreement.

“I speak for everyone when we say, ‘If we work, we’reexcited,” Lakers forward Matt Barnes said. “I thought we’deventually come to something. The league is doing toowell to dismiss the season. I thought we’d get started inJanuary or February.”

The settlement talks between the two sides began Tuesdayand intensified Friday. Fisher flew to New York to join thenegotiations that also included Silver, Holt and lawyers forboth sides.

“It was a roller-coaster ride,” Golden State Warriors guardStephen Curry said. “I followed every negotiating sessionand got my hopes up many times.”

The two sides thought they had previously been withinreach of a deal a month ago only to have talks break down.After Stern threatened the players with a “reset” offer thatwould have included a 53 percent share of revenue for theowners, the players decided to disband their union on Nov.14.

“The reason for the settlement was we’ve got fans, we’vegot players who would like to play and we’ve got otherswho are dependent on us,” Stern said. “And it’s alwaysbeen our goal to reach a deal that was fair to both sidesand get us playing as soon as possible, but that took a littletime.”

CBSSports.com first reported the end of the lockout.

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Taking stock of my NBA lockoutposition, and trying to figure out how to salvage a season.

By Mike FisherF I S [email protected]

Fish, what side are you on? Is there a way to predictwhat happens next? Is a mini-season salvageable? Andjust how naïve are the involved parties now that they (play-ers and owners) are NOT as in control their billable-hourattorneys are? Where I think NBA Kaboom explodes next…

Is there a way to predict what happens next?

Any smart lawyer or negotiator will tell you that thereis a pattern and a rhythm to these sort of proceedings.First, the screaming and the bellowing and the chest-thrusting must stop. There is a time and a place when john-son-measuring contests are expected.

Kevin Garnett, Dwyane Wade and Paul Pierce did someof that. David Stern, Dan Gilbert and Paul Allen did someof that.

That's over now. Mediators, judges and courts are inter-ested in the law, not in your volume or your “inseam.''

What the players have done by moving beyond negoti-ation and into antitrust litigation is NOT an assumption ofpower on their part, though many seem to think so. In fact,they've given up power, transferring it from one set ofexpensive lawyers to another tier of expensive lawyers.

The owners' side has done some of the same, of course.But I can assure you that the 30 owners are well-versed inthe chess moves and the players … and that not all of the450 “trade association'' members are.

The owners cannot be pleased about the antitrust move-ment because it introduces a chance for them to lose thebattle - something that was never, ever going to happen inhead-to-head negotiations. Still, know that the court sys-tem will insist that the two sides go back to battle … soultimately, the owners will still likely prevail.

While they wait for that to happen, they will watch theirplayers squirm as million-dollar paychecks go unmailed.… they will not present a counteroffer … they will beopportunistic as the union members do what some alwaysdo: shift into various levels of discontent.

Oh, there are factions within ownership, too. But thedissenters there are motivated by things not as impactful asmissed paychecks.

Fish, you sound “anti-union.'' Are you? Who's side areyou on?

My youngest son just got a job at Kroger's. He signedunion

papers. If they ever try to compensate him below thelegal minimum wage, or force him to add to his duties asa bagger by digging in a coal mine, that union support willcome in handy.

But Ian Mahinmi's biweekly paycheck is $78,000. DirkNowitzki's is 10 times that.

This is no Kroger's and this is no coal mine.

And heck, according to the players themselves, this isn'teven a union anymore.

WHAT ABOUT MY SIDE?I can be pro-union but I cannot be pro-union ahead of

being pro-Mike Fisher. The side I'm on is the side thatmost quickly and efficiently wins its argument so pro bas-ketball returns to my life. The labor dispute is costing memoney and robbing me of one of my great pleasures. TheNBA is one of my occupations and one of my avocations.

Which side am I on?

I'm on MY side. And whoever fixes this asshattery -Stern or Cuban or Hunter or a judge or the President of theUnited States -- is going to be the hero of my side.

Is a mini-season salvageable?

I believe, going back to the concept of a negotiating“pattern and rhythm,'' that there are those involved whosee the wisdom of starting the NBA season on ChristmasWeek. Christmas Day is a traditional benchmark for theleague; it's when games move from ESPN to ABC, reach-ing a wider and more mainstream audience. ChristmasDay would also work symbolically, as if there is ever atime when animosity and hatred might melt, it isDecember 25.

But no. The ticking clock lessens the likelihood.Furthermore, and back to the original point: It's not justHunter and Stern calling each other anymore to hammerout “three tweaks.''

Games are cancelled through Dec. 15. It would take 30days to get a short-season NBA on track. So the hammer-out call has to come in the next week. The mood for thatto occur is not an inviting one. But more: the players(through their reps) have voted to not accept the deal thatwas on the table. The owners (through Stern) chose not tonegotiate further.

The argument now belongs completely to the lawyers,and most specifically, the players' lawyers. And pray tell,what exactly would be their motivation in urging BillyHunter to call David Stern? Or in urging Hunter to accepta call from Stern? The lawyers were hired to guide thiscase into the antitrust courts.

That's what the lawyers will be motivated to do.

I've no right to doubt specifically the motivation ofBoies and Kessler and the rest to do anything but the mostright thing. But their idea of “most right'' is different thanyours and mine. I think it's “different'' that no one hasfound out if at least half of a union membership that stillhasn't been permitted by its own leadership to vote on anyof this is in favor of the movement.

There is a pattern and a rhythm to the way these mattersplay out. The pattern is long and the rhythm is slow.

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By Mike KravikCO R R E S PO N D E [email protected]

Another Nice Cowboy Win (Thank You,Mike Shanahan)

No matter how much talent your opponentis perceived to have, you grab those NFLwins on the road, bank 'em and then don'tlook back. The game with the Redskinshad several angst ridden moments but theCowboys still found a way to win.

And Mike Shanahan…thank you forbecoming a nice little kitty cat when itmattered most on Sunday. Kicking anextra point instead of going for two whenthe Redskins made the score 24-23 in thelast minute?

Let's reset - Your team is in the fog of a 5game losing streak and you are not goingto the playoffs. You had the clearly inferi-or team but you had just jammed the foot-ball (12 plays / 89 yards) down theCowboys collective throats. The Cowboysdefense was reeling and in disarray. Thehome crowd was screaming for bloodbecause their hated rival was on the ropes.Go win the game!

Shanahan could have eliminated all theuncertainty of overtime by simply con-verting a two-pointer yet chose the safestroute. A big reason the WashingtonRedskins lost the game on Sunday isbecause Mike Shanahan was afraid to win.

Tommy Tuberville's Hot Seat

Texas Tech's last minute 31-27 loss to a

mediocre Missouri team was anotherembarrassing brick in Coach TommyTuberville's personal wall of under-achievement during his time in Lubbock.Tech fans were told in August to bracethemselves for a bumpy ride in 2011because several young and inexperiencedplayers would be seeing a lot of action thisseason.

Hey, I was at Tech when Jerry Moore (16-37-2) coached so I could deal with a downseason. The heartbreaking losses toKansas State and Texas A&M probablyhad more to do with inexperience thanactual talent. The losses stung but I stillhad optimism because the experiencethese kids gained was invaluable.

What I cannot accept are the non-compet-itive efforts we saw against Iowa State,Texas and Oklahoma State. If you're trail-ing 49-0 at halftime (score v OklahomaState) when you are playing at homethere's something deeply wrong within theteam or a severe disconnect between theplayers and coaches. Any other explana-tion is white noise from a coach who ismaking excuses for failure.

I loved Mike Leach at Tech but I thoughtTuberville was an excellent hire at thetime because of his track record atAuburn. I knew Tuberville was given thekeys to a good (but not great) programbefore the 2010 season and was very opti-mistic because his first team had a lot ofreturning infrastructure from the success-ful 2008-2009 seasons (20-6 record,Cotton Bowl, Alamo Bowl appearances).

Tuberville proceeded to grab the wheel ofthe car and run it straight into an 8-5 ditchand 2011 has been worse. Even the brightmoments of victory in 2011 have had sliv-ers of darkness. Tech trailed at halftime to

Texas State, needed a furious fourth quar-ter rally to beat Nevada and also fellbehind 20-0 to Kansas. The alumni can'thelp but wonder what the hell is going onin Lubbock?

There's no way to sugarcoat it -. TommyTuberville has not been a very good coachat Texas Tech and appears to be a failedhire.

Should Joe Paterno have been fired?

Absolutely.

My dad went to Penn State and while I'mnot a passionate fan of the team, I alwaysrooted for them to do well. They not onlywon but they seemed to do it the right way.The plain uniforms, the black shoes, theirstyle of play, Linebacker U, Joe Pa on thesideline - I understood “We Are…PennState” meant something and was worthchanting to the world with a deep sense ofpride.

As the sordid details of Jerry Sanduskycontinue to surface, it's becoming clearthat Joe Paterno was either protecting him(or the brand of the school) or was toodetached from the program to know whatwas happening. Neither excuse is good.

I want to believe the best but don't benaïve. Are we supposed to believe thesecoaches (several of them have been there along time) never talked to each other aboutSandusky? There was obviously a code ofomerta that existed within the programand it probably came down from the top. Iunderstand wanting to protect the brandand coaches not wanting to lose jobs butthat goes out the window when a 60 yearold monster is raping young boys in a

dressing room shower.

I don't care how many football games JoePa won. I don't care how many millions ofdollars his family gave the school. I don'tcare if the library is named after him or ifthere are statues of him on campus. Noneof that matters because everybody on hisstaff was too cowardly to speak up or con-front a monster.

Columnist Howard Bryant said it bestabout Penn State firing Paterno“Somebody needed to act like the adult.”

Bits 'n Pieces

I don't know what was more exciting inWaco this past weekend, Robert Gill'selectrifying last minute TD pass or know-ing that Erin Andrews got hit with aGatorade bucket afterwards…Is there acoach out there who does less with morethan Mack Brown at 6-4, might not makeit above .500 Texas? …Is there a coachthat does more with less than Bill Snyderat Kansas State? I will always rememberwhere I was at the end of the Jets /Broncos game when Tim Tebow led theBroncos on their riveting last drive - a barin Florida and the place exploded when heeluded the blitz and scored the game-win-ning TD ….Kudos to the reader whopointed out I was wrong last week when Isaid Texas A&M had never won more than9 games during their time in the Big 12.The Aggies went 11-3 and won the Big 12title in 1998.

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by Tom WardS PE C IAL CO NTR I BUTO R

Having spent 15 winter season’s livingdown on the beaches in Mexico I becamevery adept at playing out of the sand.Puerto Vallarta was my home during thattime as I traveled all across the country aswell as parts of Central and SouthAmerica playing in tournaments andteaching during that period of my life. Myfirst house(casa) in Spanish was right onthe Pacific ocean and I had a privatefenced in area of beach of about 175yards. So every day I would head out tomy backyard with a bucket of balls andpractice diligently as the warm tropicalbreezes and splashing ocean water sur-rounded me in my own private sandbox. Iwould work on a variety of shots from alltypes of locations and different scenarios.I had a bunch of palm trees in the yard thatI would use as my targets to shoot at aswell as having to navigate around themperiodically. Coconuts that would fallfrom the trees were used as my tee mark-ers in many instances.

I was like a lot of golfers that heard the oldexpression about hitting a inch or twobehind the ball when you were faced witha bunker shot. At the time it seemed like agood idea and I was already a prettydecent player out of the sand. After end-less hours and months of practice in myown little paradise I came to a realizationthat I was better off not focusing on aninch or two behind the ball as I prepared tohit my sand shots. It’s not that this classictip isn’t solid and can help someone, but Ifound the more you stare at a particularpoint behind the ball the more likelyyou’re going to tighten up your muscles.This mental angst is going to create achain reaction of tension that is going toshoot up from your hands gripping the

club all the way to your arms, neck andshoulders. You’re going to be so bound upwith ill timed pressure in muscles thatshouldn’t be that tense prior to makingyour swing. What I learned then a longtime ago on the playa( beach) I still usetoday in my teachings around the globe. Inthe accompanying photos I am showndemonstrating how to properly extract theball out of the sand trap. The photo on thefar left is a picture of me making my back-swing and I’ve highlighted some points inthe photograph that I believe are essential

to you becoming a great bunker player.I’ve drawn a line down my right leg toshowcase the importance of staying flexedthroughout your swing. If your right legstraightens or locks up your going to havesome problems. Having your right legflexed and braced will insure your lowerbody will work efficiently as you makeyour downward transition back into theball. The other line I’ve drawn on the farleft photo shines light upon the impor-tance of maintaining the correct spineangle in your swing. By being bent overfrom the waist at the top of my backswingI’ve been able to maintain good posture

and that’s a huge asset when it comes tomaking great shots out of the sand. Thistype of movement will help keep my headdown over the ball as I complete myswing. The angle of the photographsunfortunately don’t shown how I have anopen stance with my left foot flared out-ward. The shorter the shot I recommendyou take a wider stance. For longer bunkershots I would employ a more standardstance depending upon the distance to thehole. I’ll discuss the importance of yourfootwork in the sand in a future article.

As I start my downswing I want to comeinto the ball at a shallower angle instead ofa too steep. I can do this if I’ve kept myright leg flexed going back because as Istart back down into the impact area myright leg can push off from theground(sand in this case) and this will pullmy arms into a great angle of attack. Lookat how my right shoulder is working downand under through the ball at the criticalmoment of impact. My right leg is stillflexed and hasn’t locked up meaning Ihave good footwork. This action will pullmy club into the ideal position at impact

allowing me to easily stay down andthrough the shot. I’ve drawn a line downmy shoulders to show that I’m square withmy shoulders at impact just like I waswhen I initially setup to the shot. This cre-ates a perfect path for my arms to fire onthrough the ball and I will easily extractthe ball from the sand putting a tremen-dous amount of spin on the ball to make itget airborne immediately and help it landsoftly like a ‘butterfly with sore feet’ onceit reaches the green. Finally, the far rightphoto shows my ball with a hand drawncircle around it prior to hitting it. I’vehighlighted it even more with a marker.When your practicing you can draw a cir-cle around your ball to assist you to learnto swing through the ball and not worryabout swinging at the ball. This will freeyou up mentally I promise as opposed totrying to hit a specific point behind theball in the sand. How big should the circlebe? Well, I wouldn’t go nuts here, but startout small and gradually you’ll find yourown comfort zone after a few shots. Afteryou make your swings in the sand with thecircle drawn around it check to see whereyour point of entry is with your clubface.If your picking the ball clean out of thesand you probably have the ball too farforward in your stance. Same goes if yourhitting too much sand or behind the circleprior to impact as this is a great indicatoron how your re-routing the club back intothe impact area. The beauty of the ‘circledrill’ is you can’t cheat it! Always remem-ber, when in doubt play it back as this willat least give you a fighting chance to makesome decent contact. So go ahead and givethis tip a try because soon you’ll be cir-cling “sandy’s” on your scorecard gettingit up and down from the bunkers withease. Soon the circle drill will make youropponents ill and it will give you a bigthrill.

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DALLAS STARSCOVER STORY

Once thought to be finished in the NHL,Sheldon Souray is

performing at an All-Star level this season.

by RICHARD S. POLLACKSPECIAL [email protected]

Dallas Stars GM Joe Niewendyk was chal-lenged by the hockey world for taking therisk of signing veteran defenseman SheldonSouray. Last season, everyone in the NHLpassed on the opportunity to claim the for-mer NHL All-Star off waivers fromEdmonton forcing the 35 year old to toil inHershey of the AHL for most of the seasonafter multi-differences with Oilers' manage-ment. For my first article, writing for theDallas Sportspage Weekly,I wanted to makea bold prediction: I say that Souray will benamed an NHL All-Star, again andComeback Player of the Year,as well! I amnot skating with my head down with thepuck on predicting Souray's success in 2011with the Stars. The NHL Brass has alreadyput his name on this year's Ballot for theAll-Star Classic in Ottawa with only 20games played into the season.

AN OFFENSIVE D-MANSouray leads the Stars defensemen with

goals,assists,shots and points even beforeadmirably stepping in on the power playreplacing the injured Alex Goligoski.Defensively number #44 was suppose to bethe 5th or 6th defenseman, at best, but he isplaying as a top two defenseman, leadingthe team in checks,block shots,penalty min-utes and is the only rearguardsman, I see,who stands infront of the net and clears outthe opposition. Souray deserves to be anAll-Star and his performance on ice dictateshis Top Two and Power Play status.

Not so amazing,Souray leads the Stars inpower play goals. Armed with one of thehardest shots in hockey. I was fortunate tosee him play in Montreal at the All-Stargame in 2009 as part of the Canadians 100thyear anniversary Celebration. Souray wasone of the finalist in the slapshot competi-tion.

Souray's first taste of being a Dallas Starscame in Frisco at the Dallas Star's SeasonTicket Holders Exclusive First Ever StarsAlumni game. When asked by Dallas Stars

Radio play by play man Ralph Strangis,atthe bench, about how he feels being a DallasStar, Souray exclaimed," I'm probably olderthan most of the Stars Alum playing in thegame,I know I'm older than Modano andcan't skate as fast as Mike." Souray hasn'tbeen a slouch on defense, his veteran expe-rience and savvy makes up for any lack ofspeed and I challenge his complainingabout lack of speed skating. He's just a wiryveteran hoping the opposition reads hisquotes.

SUPERSTITIOUS SOURAYSouray has his superstitions,he's always thelast player on to the ice during warm upsand at the start of the period. His top twodefensive mate, Stephane Robidas says,"he's great to play with, his defensive skillallows me to skate with the puck forward onoffense."

Now when asked by Dallas Stars ColorCommentator Darryl Reaugh during the 5game losing slide, about the Stars tumble,Souray humoristly quotes the famed

Charlottetown Chiefs Player- Coach,Reggie Dunlop, by saying,"WE'RE WORK-ING ON IT." This season, the swift DallasStars Media Staff has added a new statisticto their player profiles with their TwitterAccounts.If you'd like to follow Sheldon'sTweets go to: @SSOURAY.

I am excited to be back,once again, on thelocal beat,able to be covering the DallasStars on a weekly basis with the best localsports print outlet in North Texas.In additionto my International correspondent responsi-

bilites with the Fishler Report ,out of NewYork. It is my honor and challenge to beable to share with my local hockey follow-ers in Dallas, my insite and opinions on the

Hockey we love! ,

SLAPSHOTS:GREAT GOALIES RECEIVE REWARDS:

Dallas Stars Netminder Kari Lehtonen wasnamed 2nd Star for the entire NHL for thefirst month of play.In Allen, both CHLAmerican's goalies, Marco Cousineau andBrian Mahoney-Wilson have won theGoaltender of the week awards.MOVEMBER:Dallas Stars newcomer, LW Eric Nystromleads the Dallas Stars players in generatingdonations for the "Movember"International Fund-Raiser to help the fightagainst prostate cancer. NHL players arewearing mustacles to bring awareness to thefight.You can see the hilarious promos ofthe Dallas Stars players that are participat-ing on the Jumpbotron at the Stars homegames..You can make a donation by access-ing Defenseman Mark Fistric ,who has leadthe cause for the past two seasons, athttp://us.movember.com/mospace/808736

Blueliner Souray turning heads in comeback year


THOUGHTS ON TOM GAGLARDI, NEWOWNER OF THE DALLAS STARS

New Dallas Stars owner, Tom Gaglardi,who since the age of 5,still plays organizedhockey twice a week was asked about hisongoing dream of playing in the NHL .Gaglardi responded, " I still have the dream,every time that I go out there to play. I amwilling to do whatever the Stars need me toit! It's up to Nieuwy ( Dallas Stars GM JoeNieuwendyk) who makes all the hockeydecisions ( jokingly) if he needs me to goout there and play on the fourth line."

WHAT DOES TOM G MEAN TO THE FRAN-CHISE?Gaglardi will be successful with the Dallasfans and Mediaimmediately. While he will be inheriting anestimated $20 Million Dollar loss for eachof the next 2 years, the Dallas area will puthim on a throne like they originally didwith former owner Tom Hicks .Everyonewill expect the Vancouver businessman tospend lots of money at the next free agencywindow.

A NOD TO THE GLORY YEARS OF THE STARS

In a surprise yet very smart move,Gaglardi returned Jim Lites to President ofthe Dallas Stars with the mission of return-ing Dallas Sports Fan's connection back tohockey. Lites was identified heading 2 dif-ferent potential Stars groups bidding for

ownership,at one time. According to Lites,who has lead the Stars under all 3 Dallasownership groups, his first strategy is torestructure and reduce ticket prices. Withover 1 Million new residents in the NorthTexas area since the Stars originally movedsouth from Minnesota, Litessays," there are plenty of potential new fansto become hockey fans."

DALLAS TO THE EAST?NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in

welcoming the New Stars owner re-statedthat Re-alignment is a crucial issue that theleague is working on. Every time that hewas in discussion with Gaglardi aboutbecoming owner of the Dallas Stars,he wasquestioned about moving Dallas eastward!The commisioner added that "guaranteedvisits by each NHL team to each NHLarena yearly would be a major part of theRe-alighment plan."

STARS LEADERS (as of 11/25)

Goals - Eriksson (10)Assists - Benn (17)Points - Benn (23)

Plus/Minus - Eriksson (+12)Penalty Minutes - Ott (41)

Goaltending:Lehtonen 2.35 GAA, .926 SV%


Baseball avoids any possibility oflabor strife.

by DIC HUMPHREYS PE C IAL CO NTR I BUTO R

NO REPEAT OF 1994Major League Baseball announced a newcollective bargaining agreement (CBA)with the Major League Baseball Players'Association this week, an agreement thatwill run through the 2016 season. That initself is a story as this agreement willexpire more than 20 years after the bloodywork stoppage of 1994. That year, base-ball came to a halt after games wereplayed on August 12. The playoffs andWorld Series were lost, and the 1995 sea-son did not start on time, in a total failureof both sides in the bargaining process. Ittook years for the sport to recover from thedamage, and apparently both sides tooknote as this new agreement will complete22 seasons without a work stoppage sinceplay resumed in 1995. Work on this year'sagreement has taken 11 months, and theagreement still needs to be ratified by bothowners and players; but both ratificationsare expected to be a formality.

WHAT CHANGES WERE MADE?Looking at the changes in this agreement,it has become apparent that the two bar-gaining sides have identified problems inbaseball and have rolled up their sleeves towork together to arrive at solutions tothose problems. Congratulations!Everyone is a winner - players, ownersand fans.

The most obvious change is the expansionof the playoffs. There will be two WildCard teams in each league. They willhave a play-in game to join the three divi-sional winners in the playoffs as we haveknown them since 1995. The effect willnot only expand the playoffs from eight to10 teams, but will put a premium on win-ning the division.

ASTROS & RANGERS TO BECOME DIVISION FOESPart of the agreement is to move theAstros from the National League into theAmerican League West beginning in the2013 season, which will even up all sixdivisions at five teams apiece. That willalter inter-league play considerably. In thepast, inter-league play opened with aweekend in late May, and then continuedin June sometimes flopping into July.With an odd number of teams in eachleague, inter-league games will be playedthroughout the season.

The details of the schedule format are stillto be finalized, but the prevalent thinkingis that teams will play their four division-al opponents 18 times during the seasonfor a total of 72 games out of the 162 gameseason (44%). The Rangers have beenplaying their three divisional opponents19 games each season for a total of 57divisional games (35%). That will meansix series with the Astros beginning in

2013. In the recent years, Houston andTexas have played one three-game seriesat each team's park, and those series havebeen well attended, especially when theyfell on a weekend. It will be interesting tosee how the attendance fares when theseteams face each other three times as oftenas divisional opponents.

There were a number of changes to thedraft process and how that relates to freeagent signings. In the past, there has beena mysterious mathematical rating systemthat classified free agent players as type Aor B for purposes of draft choice compen-sation if those players are lost to anotherteam as a free agent. The new agreementdoes away with the rating system, limitsthe number of free agents that carry com-pensation when they sign elsewhere, and

identify the top free agents for purposes ofdraft choice compensation by the amountof money they get signed for. The effectshould be to lessen the number of draftpicks that are forfeited and make numer-ous free agents more attractive targets asthey will not require forfeiture of draftpicks.

Also, there will some limited situations

where draft picks can be traded.

There will also be disincentives for overspending on draft picks. Often in the past,bad teams drafting early have passed onthe best players simply because they weretoo expensive. Jered Weaver for examplewas the best pitcher in the 2004 draft, butslipped to the 12th overall pick becausehis agent was Scott Boras who wasdemanding a king's ransom in bonus andguaranteed salaries. The well heeledAngels were the beneficiaries of the sys-tem, while inferior teams that certainlyneeded a top pitching prospect took inferi-or players because Weaver's price was toosteep. The changes in this CBA are anattempt to level the playing field so thatlesser teams will be able to draft betterplayers.

HOW WILL RANGERS BE AFFECTED?This may or may not be helpful to theRangers, who have done quite well draft-ing in past years. Texas has offered morethan slot money on occasion, but has donewell in the draft in years in which the teamwas near or in bankruptcy and didn't havea lot of money for draft choices. Whilespecific changes in the CBA may hinderthe Rangers in certain player acquisitionareas, Texas under Jon Daniels' leadershiphas developed a strong corps of scouts andevaluators, and will continue to do well inacquiring new players for the Rangers'system to develop.

Somewhat surprisingly, the new agree-ment provides for blood testing for humangrowth hormone (hGH). It is surprising inthat there is no evidence that hGH actual-ly enhances players' performances, andthe MLBPA has resisted blood testing forso long.

GET READY FOR MORE DELAYS DURINGGAMESOther highlights of the agreement includeexpanded use of instant replay, subject toworking out agreement with the Umpires'Association, a raise in the minimum salaryfrom $414,000 to $480,000 initially, withescalations that will take the minimumsalary over the $500,000 mark before theagreement expires, further restrictions onsmokeless tobacco use by on field person-nel, and changes in the luxury tax on bigsalaried teams.

MLB GETS IT DONE WITHOUT TENSIONS BETWEEN SIDESSo far in 2011, sports fans have seen alengthy lockout in the NFL and laborstrife in the NBA that has already costgames and threatens to scrap the 2011-12season altogether. Baseball in the past hashad brutal labor battles. There was once atime when the expiration of a labor con-tract almost certainly meant a work stop-page. Those days seem like a distantmemory with the announcement of thisCBA which was accomplished quietlybehind closed doors with little fanfare.Fans have seen the showmanship ofDeMaurice Smith leading the NFLPlayers' Association and his NBA counter-part Billy Hunter. The average fan howev-er can't even name MLBPA's lead negotia-tor in these talks, which is Michael Wienerin case you're curious. In this case, quietis good. Baseball has finally gotten theirlabor relations right.

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Each week, we’ll ask some area mediamembers to put their forecasting skills tothe test. This season, TSPW publisher DanMcVicker, Scott Boyter, editor of TSPW, Themysterious Red Root, TSPW columnist VanceGonzales and Roger Emrich, KRLD-AM Sportsand oilman and former Texas Tech widereceiver Travis Price will pick vs. the line.

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New Rangers closer JoeNathan visited with Norm.

Norm: Joe, why here? There wereother teams interested in you with at leastas good an offer, or slightly better. Whyhere?

Nathan: I think it's pretty obviouswhat this club has been able to do overthe last couple years. The question was

probably "why me?" for these guys, andonce the interest was there on their partwe knew we were interested in cominghere. I was just excited to sit down andtalk with Jon Daniels, Nolan Ryan, ThadLevine, and Don Welke, and when wefinally found out that they had interest inus, our focus definitely turned to tryingto get something done here, and worksomething out so I could be a TexasRanger in 2012.

Norm: I continue to be amazed aboutthe Rangers, while loads of other teamsare doing business in public, we've heardnothing about this. There wasn't even atweet. How did this all stay so quiet?

Nathan: I think that just speaks forhow my agent Dave Pepe and BillyMartin and the Rangers work. That'ssomething that we definitely took pridein keeping things on the hush, and allow-ing this process to take it's course andcontinue talks and try and keep thingsout of the paper. Just keep businessbetween the people you need to keep itbetween until the time was right to let

everybody else know. That's definitelysomething we took pride in, and we wereable to keep it under wraps pretty well.

Norm: Do you tweet? Do you have atwitter account?

Nathan: I guess I have one, but i'mnot very good at it because I don't reallyget on there too often. That's not reallymy forte. I don't even have an emailaddress. I'm living back in the 20th cen-tury I guess in that sense. I try to live alittle bit old fashioned so I guess the cellphone is just about as much as I do.

Norm: I want to get in one obligatoryquestion, and that's about your arm. Itappeared from July on, that your arm gotstronger and stronger, and your outingsgot better and better. Let me take you tothe first three months of the season, youhad missed an entire year due to TommyJohn surgery. Those handful of games inApril, May, and June did you go outthere throwing pitches and ask yourself,"does it hurt"?

Nathan: Maybe not so much "does ithurt?", but just a matter of not being ableto finish pitches. I think that's a part ofthe learning process when you're goingthrough that. You can make some otherpitch some better, when you're not atyour best. You can kind of fine tune someother pitch. I think that's one thing I gotout of the first couple of months to kindof go into July, August, and Septemberwhen my arm was finally able to finishall the pitches. I went on the DL andsome of the scar tissue broke up. Thatenabled me to come back and finish allmy pitches, have depth with my breakingpitches, and trust my fastball more. I hadto learn to throw breaking balls in betterareas in the strike zone. That helped meto have a better curveball and slider, thaneven before I had Tommy John surgery.

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