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ESPN, CBS strike deal for NCAA games
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — One day after announcing a $1.7 billion deal with CBS, the NCAA yesterday said it had sold TV rights to what was left of its major championships to ESPN for eight years through 2002.
The deal includes rights to events from 19 NCAA championships,
including exclusive rights to the Division I women's basketball tournament.
The last four years of the contract are option years, and if ESPN picks them all up, the total value of the package will be $19 million. The NCAA's old contract with ESPN was worth $1.5 million.
"We believe this package will allow
these championships to grow," NCAA executive director Cedric Dempsey said.
"Obviously, this package was not about money but about giving some exposure to athletes whose sports might not yet have been discovered by the general public."
ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN International will televise 23 women's tournament games: eight from the round of 32, all eight regional semifinals, all four regional finals, the two national semifinals and the championship game, beginning in 1996.
"We had two priorities for the women's basketball championship: a day of rest between the semifinal and final and live coverage of earlier rounds," Dempsey said.
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NHL labor meetings fall apart once more
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CHICAGO — NHL owners, the players contend, are gluttony who feast at the labor buffet, wipe their chins and return for more.
NHL players, the owners believe, are money-grabbers who care more about their BMWs and bank accounts than about their league's health.
It was in this environment of ennity on the 67th day of the owners' lockout that labor negotiations broke down Tuesday, with both sides agreeing only that prospects are slim for saving the season.
"We've given them everything they wanted," said Mike Gartner, NHL Players Association president. "We've made a tremendous amount of concessions along the way. Right now, the owners are being glutons about it.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman had his own opinion:
"They've been gobbling up everything that we've been giving and now they're saying, 'We want more, more and more.'"
"The players are of the view that they want to maintain the status quo, even if it's something that makes a good number of our teams unprofitable and not competitive."
Bettman said the sides were "too far apart on substance" regarding salary arbitration, free agency and rookie salary cap. He said negotiations ended even before owners introduced aplan to tax up to 25 percent of the entire payrolls of teams that exceed certain aggregate salary ceilings.
"The players told us that they had gone as far as they could," he said. "With or without the contribution plan, there was no basis for a deal."
But the players said the sides were close on the rookie cap and free agency. And, though there was still a gap on the arbitration issue, they weren't forlorn until the payroll tax hit the table.
"The big difference was Gary Bettman was dying to get this tax on the table and he pulled it out with flying colors," said Washington's Kelly Miller, a member of the player's negotiating team. "They wanted to say, 'Things have broken down, here's the tax.'"
"At some point you've got to say, Hey, no, you can't have my kids and you can't have my wife."
"Maybe they felt that by throwing the tax on, they could get more concessions. The way I look at it, I've already given them my keys, I've given them my wallet, I've given them my car."
No new talks are scheduled before Monday's NHL Board of Governors meeting.
A collective bargaining agreement probably must be in place by mid-December if there is to be a "meaningful" 50-game season.
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