Cornerbacks could get paid. The pass-rusher market is thin. And will any team pay the free-agent running backs?
That visible circle in the back pockets of big leaguers -- typically a sure sign of smokeless tobacco -- might be far less common next season.
The league that wins the All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record.
Hours before the industry's old labor agreement expired, the owners and the union came together on a new CBA. That's great news for the game but bad news for big-budget ballclubs.
Talks on a new labor deal in Major League Baseball have progressed this week, and sources are optimistic an agreement can be reached before owners impose a lockout before a Dec. 1 deadline.
Owners have approached the NFLPA about negotiating an extension to the current CBA, in part because they have exhausted all the stadium credits in the deal signed in 2011, sources said.
