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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 6, 1994
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Pro seasons ride on salary proposals
Baseball meetings will discuss taxes
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Given one more chance to come up with something that might interest owners, striking baseball players begin meetings this week aimed at making progress in settling the dispute.
About 100 players are expected at the three-day session. On Thursday, many agents plan to meet in Atlanta, possibly to review the counterproposal that players hope to make to the owners' payroll tax plan.
"The object of the meeting will be to catch everybody up on where we stand and to see if we can develop a counteroffer that will produce some meaningful dialogue," union head Don Fehr said Sunday in Atlanta.
Mediator W.J. Usery planned to meet with the players today, Fehr said. Also this week, prominent agent Dick Mess intends to talk to the players about his United League, which he hopes will start playing in 1996.
At Usery's urging, owners delayed yesterday's meeting in Chicago that it was expected they were going to put in place a system built around a salary cap.
Owners, however, already are planning to meet next week. If there is no settlement by Dec. 17, they are likely to implement their own system, which would also include the elimination of salary arbitration.
"I do think that Don is seeking to go to his players and bring us a proposal that is fair," Atlanta Braves president Stan Kasten said. "There is nowhere else to go."
Players and owners are scheduled to meet Friday in Rye Brook, N.Y., in yet another attempt to make progress at settling the strike that began Aug. 12.
"I'm not saying we're going to come out of our meeting with a proposal that is just going to knock their socks off," Braves pitcher Tom Glavine said. "But hopefully we can come out of our meetings with a proposal that has the basis to which we can start negotiating a deal."
SOURCES: NBA, The Washington Post
Buffs player faces charges
The players made their most recent
12/1/94
The Associated Press
BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado tight end Christian Faure could be going to court — but not before the Fiesta Bowl — after being involved in a street brawl that left another man with broken ribs.
The two men apparently exchanged words outside Potter's Restaurant & Bar on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall.
A witness told police early Saturday that he recognized Fauria after the CU athlete allegedly blind-sided another man and knocked him down.
Jason Nagle, 19, suffered broken ribs, and another man, Patrick Yerxa, 19, had cuts on his face. They were treated at Boulder Community Hospital.
Fauria has declined to give specifics about the incident, saying only, "There's a whole other side to the story that'll come out in the end."
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Fauria, a senior, is widely expected to be an early pick in the National Football League.
"For him to be involved in something like this is just totally out of character," said Dave Plati, a representative for CU's athletic department.
The brawl is not expected to hinder Fauria's changes of playing in the Fiesta Bowl Jan. 2, despite coach Bill McCartney's strict rules.
McCartney has been known to suspend players for one game if they are found guilty of a crime or an infraction of university rules.
Meanwhile, police continue to investigate the incident. No arrests have been made.
proposal on Sept. 8, calling for a 1.6 percent tax on the 16 teams with the highest revenue and a 1.5 percent tax on the 16 teams with the highest payrolls.
Management's latest proposal came on Nov. 17 and called for a much steeper tax that would have escalated to 77.66 percent for the Detroit Tigers this season.
As an example, the Tigers, whose payroll was almost $57 million, would have paid about $1.8 million under the players' plan. The Tigers would have paid $44 million under the management's proposal.
Players contend the owners' big tax would serve the same purpose as a salary cap.
Fear also is sure to reiterate the need for union solidarity. Owners have talked about starting next season with replacement players if the major leaguers are still on strike.
Time running out for hockey
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — After a weekend of talking with their members, negotiators for hockey players and owners were to resume negotiations yesterday with time running out to salvage a season.
Stalemated talks broke off Friday, and owners and players agreed it was best to spend the weekend canvassing their constituents.
Both sides have agreed on certain concepts, but the gap is considerable on the issues of salary arbitration, a rookie salary cap and free agency when it comes down to the fine print.
"There are a whole host of other issues that have to be discussed, but we have not been able to come to agreement on the three basic fundamental ones, and that is discouraging," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said.
a deal has to be done by the end of the week. Others believe they have until Christmas to work things out.
As for a deadline to reach a new collective bargaining agreement, some general managers feel
For months, the NHILPA said there would not be a rookie salary cap, but the union has given in and the sticking point now is level of pay.
The NHLPA feels the ceiling should be $1.25 million for first-round picks.
NHL sources have mentioned $900,000, but one general manager believes with maneuvering by agents, "We will wind up spending as much money as before."
The NHL wants to retain its right to have an arbitrator's decision be non-binding on the team, meaning that rather than paying the awarded salary, a team could allow the player to become an unrestricted free agent.
The NHLAPA says the proposal is unacceptable because it allows the team to walk away from a decision and it attaches a rejection stigma to the player.
College World Series to stay in Nebraska
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — A contract granting the College World Series to Nebraska's largest city through the year 2000 assures that the national championship baseball tournament will have been in Omaha for more than 50 years, an official said yesterday.
"No other NCAA championship in history has been in one location for any length of time at all," said Jack Diesing, chairman of College Series Inc., the Omaha non-profit organization that sponsors the CWS.
The College World Series brings teams from around the country each year to Omaha to determine a national champion.
The 1995 CWS will conclude the current contract, which is the latest in a series under which the tournament has been played in Omaha since 1950.
The five-year agreement in principle between the NCAA and CWS Inc, was announced June 2.
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