Did anyone else notice that the National Basketball Association has come to an agreement with its players? I just happened to be reading the scroll at the bottom of the screen while Michigan was battling Ohio State. In college football. The Detroit Pistons may have been ready to go, but all eyes were on Ann Arbor that day. A few days before that, most of your Detroit sports fans were glued to the action on Ford Field. It wasn't long before that that they were rooting on the Tigers in their race to the American League pennant. Basketball? are we ready for some basketball?
Maybe not. Not after one hundred and forty-nine days of squabbling over a few million dollars here and there. The details are essentially unimportant, since those who would watch the Pistons or any other NBA franchise will have their chance starting on Christmas Day. Their season will be an abbreviated sixty-six games, down from your standard eighty-two. That's a decrease of about twenty-percent, so I'm sure that both owners and players are expecting to make twenty percent less this year. Especially since the custodians, concession workers, and assorted support personnel will have to do without those sixteen games' revenue. You can be sure that part of the settlement reached between the big deals will include some sort of trickle down for those who are not millionaires. Or not.
In the meantime, I'm checking out the NHL schedule.
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