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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB to cancel another week of games if deal not reached by Tuesday night — Major League Baseball plans to cancel another week of regular-season games if it can't agree to a new collective bargaining agreement with the MLB Players Association by Tuesday night, adding another layer …
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Ken Rosenthal / MLB - The Athletic:
MLB willing to increase luxury tax if players move in other areas, people with knowledge of league's thinking said — Major League Baseball is willing to increase the first competitive-balance tax threshold from $220 million if the Players Association makes moves in other areas, people with knowledge of the league's thinking say.
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Ken Rosenthal / MLB - The Athletic:
How was baseball's luxury tax supposed to work? Rob Manfred, Gene Orza weigh in — A club executive was on the line, voicing an objection. Media members, he said, were unfairly characterizing a critical element of baseball's labor negotiations. Nowhere in any previous collective-bargaining agreement …
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Sources: New MLBPA proposal includes $5M reduction in pre-arbitration pool — The MLB Players Association gave a written collective bargaining agreement proposal to Major League Baseball on Sunday. It included a $5 million reduction to the union's last offer in a pre-arbitration bonus pool …
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The Athletic:
MLB points to Tuesday as deadline for 162-game schedule, full pay, service time: Sources — Major League Baseball is pointing to a new deadline for players, sources told The Athletic: If a deal is not reached by Tuesday, then MLB has told the union the owners are likely to be unwilling to play …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
‘We are deadlocked’: MLB could cancel another week of games soon as talks show little progress
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Max Scherzer floats ‘ghost win’ playoff proposal with MLB labor talks set to resume Sunday
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Kim returns to South Korea on record-setting contract with KBO's Landers — JUPITER, Fla. — After coming to the Cardinals eager to try his left hand in the majors and encountering two seasons of jostling roles under the cloud of a pandemic, Kwang Hyun Kim returned to the KBO and immediately set a record.
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Bradford Doolittle / ESPN:
91 games (and counting?): How MLB's cancellations could rock the playoff races — Ninety-one games. So far. — That's the number of games that have been lopped off the schedule after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's news conference last week. We can only hope that the number doesn't go up.
The Athletic:
LeBron, the Lakers and their road back to ‘winning time’: Why Magic Johnson and Phil Jackson still matter, plus what's next — LOS ANGELES — When LeBron James was sending all those unsettling messages the Lakers' way over All-Star weekend in Cleveland — the ones that left so many wondering …
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Sources: MLB eyes pitch clocks of 14 seconds with empty bases, 19 seconds with runners on — Major League Baseball wants to institute a 14-second pitch clock with the bases empty and a 19-second timer with runners on, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Prospects Live:
2022 Preseason Top 100 Prospects List — Introduction — Our Top 100 prospect list is finally here! This is a culmination of efforts forged by over 20 different individuals here at Prospects Live. We began our offseason report writing in early October with the aim to grade …
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Peter King / ProFootballTalk:
FMIA: A Peek Inside The Journal Of Aidan Hutchinson, And What We Learned At NFL Scouting Combine — INDIANAPOLIS — “I don't know why I did it,” Aidan Hutchinson said Saturday night after his NFL Scouting Combine workout, sitting in his room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, a few long spirals from Lucas Oil Stadium.
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Calvin Watkins / Dallas Morning News:
After rejecting a pay cut, DeMarcus Lawrence's future with the Dallas Cowboys appears in doubt — Multiple sources said the team has asked Lawrence to take a pay cut, which he refused. — INDIANAPOLIS — Among the Cowboys' highest-paid players, quarterback Dak Prescott has job security …
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Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Four MLB owners opposed increasing the luxury tax at all: reports — Four MLB owners — the Reds' Bob Castellini, Tigers' Chris Ilitch, Diamondbacks' Ken Kendrick, and Angels' Arte Moreno — objected to the league's proposal to raise the competitive balance tax, making it clear that getting 23 owners …
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Jonathan Abrams / New York Times:
Brittney Griner, Star W.N.B.A. Center, Is Detained in Russia — The Russian Federal Customs Service said Saturday that its officials had detained an American basketball player after finding vape cartridges that contained hashish oil in her luggage at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow.
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