Posted by Zach Bigalke on August 29, 2011 · 2 Comments
I’ve already laid out the situation in Spain versus other European leagues, and how the disparity in revenue has led to many clubs simply not paying their players when the accounting dips into the red. With over a hundred of their kinsmen awaiting salary payments from last season, the players in Spain’s top two soccer divisions have gone on strike, postponing the start of the new season and leaving the schedule in flux.
The San Siro... Read More
Filed under Columns, Soccer · Tagged with AC Milan, Barcelona, collective bargaining agreement, inter milan, Juventus, La Liga, lockout, Real Madrid, Serie A, strike, TV
Posted by Zach Bigalke on August 18, 2011 · 2 Comments
For sports fans in the United States — who endured the NFL work stoppage over the summer, and are currently watching and waiting as the NBA and its players work toward a stalemate that could look suspiciously like the NHL’s season-long shutdown in 2004-05 — labor situations have taken on a curious pattern in recent years. It isn’t the players, the labor of this situation, which initiates a strike; instead, it is management,... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on March 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I feel like a kid tearing through a bucket of Halloween candy. We’re in the final stages of our move back across town to the apartment complex we temporarily left to help a friend in need, and it sure feels good to be back. Once again I have a tennis court mere footsteps away, and a pool is accessible every toasty summertime day. But what really has this Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America excited is simply being tied back into 21st-century... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on October 21, 2010 · 3 Comments
Wednesday morning really left me with a lot of time to think, and boy was there plenty to think about. I was up before 4:00 am, waking up to drive my wife to the airport for a week away on business. (Sweetheart that she was, having been up awake all night unable to sleep, she had a cup of coffee in hand for me as soon as I walked in the kitchen.) As I drove home in the pre-dawn fog of a cool autumnal morning, her plane turned northward for the short... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on October 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment
With the conclusion of Wednesday’s games, the UEFA Champions League is officially halfway through its group stage. When the groups were first announced, I made my predictions as to who would be advancing on to the knockout phase of the competition. Ranking every group 1-4, I pretty much laid it all out there on the line and made my best judgments as to how the world’s preeminent club tournament would play out this season.
So perhaps now... Read More
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