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The impending NFL strike
It's always about the money. The big business of professional sports has meant frequent battles between players and owners for a piece of the multimillion-dollar pie. The 2004 hockey lockout was the first in a decade, but over the years sports labour disputes have plagued professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey — resulting in shortened seasons and furious fans.
Program: The Journal
Broadcast Date: Sept. 21, 1982
Guest(s): Joe Theismann, Gene Upshaw
Host: Barbara Frum, Peter Kent
Duration: 6:49
Last updated: November 30, 2012
Page consulted on March 27, 2013
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For the first time since the Majors came to Canada, it's a summer with...
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NFL team owners hire replacements for striking football players.
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Fans boo football players and quarterback Joe Theismann defends the st...
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American fans react to Canadian football replacing NFL games.
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Staff at stadiums in Montreal and Toronto carry on as if it will be bu...
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Hockey player Brian Trottier tells Peter Gzowski the players' perspect...
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The playoffs are back on the ice after players and owners resolve a te...
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Shoeless Joe author W.P. Kinsella has a hard time with millionaire bas...
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Toronto theatres, comedy clubs and video stores benefit from baseball ...
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The World Series is cancelled, and the league-leading Expos' dreams ar...
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Angry fans make headwear proclaiming their feelings about the 1994 NHL...
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Basketball owners and players lock horns over a proposed salary cap.
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Shops, bars and restaurants fear economic repercussions of the NBA loc...
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A contract expires but NHL management and players still can't agree on...
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman shuts down the 2004-05 season.
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Cancelling the 2004-05 NHL season means the league needs to re-think i...
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Hockey Night in Canada commentator Don Cherry talks to Peter Mansbridg...
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The 1994 Montreal Expos are the best team in baseball. But a strike ru...
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It's always about the money. The big business of professional sports h...