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Friday, July 23rd, 2010

RealClearSports: Exorbitant Salaries? Just Supply and Demand

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

In Britain, where austerity is in vogue and government budget cuts affect the health system, schools and other vital services, Liverpool of the Premier League signed free-agent soccer star Joe Cole for four years at $7.4 million a year. Hardly austere.

On this side of the Atlantic, the New Jersey Devils, based in Newark, a city with an unemployment rate of more than 13 percent, happily re-signed Ilya Kovalchuk to a 17-year, $102 million contract. Even though rejected by the National Hockey League, it disturbed many citizens.

Read the full story here.

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

SF Examiner: Spring unkind to Bay Area teams

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

The San Jose Sharks — they’re not to be confused with the San Jose A’s. The A’s still are playing. So are the San Francisco Giants, unfortunately.

If it weren’t for the Houston Astros, the Giants would have a losing record. If it weren’t for the Giants, the A’s would have a losing record. If it weren’t for the Sharks, we’d have to rely on the Warriors’ lottery selection for the story that never ends.

Read the full story here.

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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

RealClearSports: Sharks: Smoke, Fire and More Disappointment

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

Steve Jobs, the poo-bah from Apple, has invented a new sport. He and his wealthy pals from down here in Silicon Valley buy those Segway machines, the ones that look part scooter, part cycle and cost a cool $5,000. Then they use them to play polo.

Cheaper than a string of ponies, is their contention.

Read the full story here.

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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

SF Examiner: Sharks trying to avoid Bay Area curse

By Art Spander
Special to the Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO — Now it is the Sharks’ turn to overcome the Curse of the Bay-bino. No, our teams didn’t sell Babe Ruth — just traded Willie Mays and Mark McGwire — but they’ve been undone by a jinx, the Left Coast version.

Fame of late has been achieved less through suspension bridges than suspended belief. They did what? We’re the kings of the “Here We Go Again” syndrome.

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Friday, April 30th, 2010

RealClearSports: Sharks Stifle Ghosts of the Red Wings

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN JOSE — The ghosts were knocked around the ice Thursday night. So were the Detroit Red Wings. But for the San Jose Sharks, it’s never been what happened in the present, but what didn’t happen in the past.

Maybe it’s about to change.

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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

SF Examiner: Bad news Bay Area at it again

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO — It was another of those should have, could have days for the Bay Area, the ones overloaded with bad memories and worse possibilities.

There was Manny Ramirez standing at the plate for the Dodgers, two outs in the eighth and you knew what was going to happen.

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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

RealClearSports: America’s Infatuation with Hockey Is Over

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

We’ve had this infatuation before, after the World Cup was held in the United States in 1994, maybe after the women’s World Cup win, in the same stadium where the ‘99 final was played, the Rose Bowl. America was soccer mad, like Europe and South America, was the wild proclamation.

Not at all. America was merely being America, a nation excited for a time about a special event, a competition that for that day was must-see, like a Super Bowl or a Kentucky Derby. Make it seem important enough and you can sell out anything from log rolling to curling.

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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

SF Examiner: New year doesn’t bring much hope for Bay Area sports

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO — This is a happy new year? The 49ers reveling because they didn’t lose more games than they won. The Raiders groping because they did lose more games than they won. The Warriors making us wish it were baseball season. The Giants and A’s making us wonder why we should wish it were baseball season.

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