The NBA and NBPA have been in talks about changing the draft age. This will allow players to once again enter the draft straight out of high school. Timeline and Technicalities Since 2005, a player who is entering the NBA draft must be nineteen years old during the calendar year …
Read More »Lockout, Work Stoppage Looms for MLB
The MLB season may be over, but battles are far from it. The league and the Major League Baseball Players Association have a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) which expires Wednesday night at 11:59 p.m. If the two sides don’t agree (which seems likely at this point), team owners will force …
Read More »MLB Could Face Work Stoppage in 2022
The 2021 World Series could be the last time MLB fans see baseball for a while. With the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) set to expire in Winter 2021, there are unknowns clouding the 2022 offseason. Essentially, a CBA is a written contract between an employer and a union representing the …
Read More »MLB Season Set to Start On Time
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to ravage the nation, Major League Baseball has grown concerned with it’s current set start time for the 2021 season. However, the league’s proposal to move the start date back a month was rejected by the league’s players. The Proposal Planning for an April 1 …
Read More »Stephon Marbury Talks Basketball and the Impact of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted sports across the world. Leagues are canceling their seasons, and most athletes are without a job, at least for the moment. Although it’s still unknown when leagues will continue their seasons, athletes like ex-NBA player, Stephon Marbury, are stepping up and doing what they can …
Read More »China restricts professional sports
China took the lead in how to get back and function after and during the coronavirus pandemic. However, the country is still hitting several bumps in the road to getting back to competitive sporting events as we know them. China’s Decision China was the first country with reports of the …
Read More »NFL Ratifies New CBA
At a time when the world is in a sports drought, the NFL is keeping things afloat. The NFL players and the NFLPA came to terms on a new CBA. The vote was close: ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports only 51.5 percent of voters said yes. 51.5 vs 48.5 % – that …
Read More »CBA Vote Looms Over NFL
In the month since Super Bowl LIV, the NFL world has been nothing short of quiet. First, there’s the raging debate over Tom Brady’s future– will he stay with the Patriots or go elsewhere? But more pressing right now is the upcoming vote on the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement. The …
Read More »New CBA Would Expand NFL Regular Season, Playoffs
On Wednesday night, Adam Schefter dropped a Twitter bomb on NFL fans. Schefter announced that the league is currently on track to expand the playoffs to seven teams per conference: NFL playoff structure is about to be changed. Under the current CBA proposal, seven teams from each conference will make …
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