Do We Need Another Professional Basketball League?

Brian ROSS
Sr. Editor
SZ

This is America, and I'm all for the American dream. Anyone can go out tomorrow, get the right licenses, the right spot to sell their wares, hire a few people, and start a business. Let the free market decide if it has merit, or need.  Yet in spite of that all, and with more than a decade in minor pro sports under my belt, I have to sincerely ask the businesspeople who fired the "Cotinental Basketball League" press release over my transom last month: "Why? Why? WHY!"

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Honoring the Living in Baseball

MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - 05.24.09 - I was editing the terrific piece on Friday about the passing of Nick Adenhart (See: "The Guy Everyone Wanted to Be Around," SZ, 05.24.09), when it occurred to me that while we mourn the dead, we are not not nearly as kind to the living, or concerned about how they live.

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La Mort du MLB (The Death of Major League Baseball): Is MiLB the Heir-Apparent?

MAJORBLOGS.net - OPINION - 04.26.09 - The unthinkable has happened. Major League Baseball fans have actually said "Enough!" with the one voice that truly can put the fear of God into MLB Owners: Their wallets.

As the New York Times reported

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