This article is about the women's cricket players in England, getting central contracts. They are receiving these contracts as a reward for beating Australia by six wickets (I don't know what a wicket is)at the Bradman Oval yesterday. In other countries like Australia and India, their players are paid a match fee. The contracts in England and Wales are the first of their kind in the sport. The cricketers contracts are worth between 40,000 pounds and 50,000 pounds. These contracts are to insure that the cricketers focus on their teams without the distraction of offers from other teams.
I think that giving contracts to the cricket players in England and Wales, gives them incentive to stay with one team longer than they would if they were just paid match fees. By having central contracts introduced i think that other countries that have prfessional cricket teams will follow England's example by rewarding their players with contracts.
Well this contract is pretty amazing. When Alex Rodriguez became a free agent in 2000, it looked like only the New York Mets would have the money for A-Rod’s demands. When the Mets pulled out of the running, only the Texas Rangers were left as possible suitors and they needlessly dropped a bid that was $50 million more than the second-place offer. Rodriguez quickly accepted the offer, which doubled Kevin Garnett’s previous record of $126-million. The deal became a disaster for the Texas Rangers, who shipped A-Rod off to the New York Yankees along with $67 million. Meanwhile, the Yanks scooped up Rodriguez with a much better contract of roughly seven years at about $16 million per season. Well I think that this is mouth dropping, but I’m happy that my yanks got him. I hope that one day I will make that much money.
This article is about a red sox baseball pitcher who was feeling discomfort in his shoulder and now doesnt know if he will be able to pitch this year. He already had surgery in 1995 after feeling discomfort, and now the pain is coming back. He signed an $8 million dollar contract in November and they think he might forfeit the contract if they tell him he cant get surgery again.
If someone is feeling discomfort and a doctor recommends surgery, they need to do whats best no matter if they are losing money or not. Peoples health and well being is more important than money, although some people would feel other ways. I also think it wouldnt be right if they threaten to not allow him to get the surgery.
Derek Jeter was awarded the second richest contract in sports history. The MVP of the World Series and Allstar Game (in 2000) agreed to $189 million and a ten year deal. He could have become a free agent after the 2001 season, he could have explored the league for more money--possibly beating Alex Rodriguez's $252 million deal with Texas.
I think that the amount of money athletes are recieving to play is huge. I think that national league teams have changed so much because of salaries. We can only hope that the athletes play well enough to deserve their contracts.
the article is about a midfielder from Bundesliga soccer club who extended his contract for two more years. the player, Balitsch arrived at the club three years ago from Mainz 05 and since then he has become a key player for the team.
i think that this was a good article. i think that the player showing great loyalty to his team by rejecting the other offers from the other teams.
This article is about teachers in Janesville who are feeling their jobs are not as important and they feel unappreciated. The teachers have been working under the terms of their old contract all school year. The board has rejected their union's resonable offer for a settlement of the 2007-2009 contract. The teachers marched with signs outside the school before the school board meeting. The board has not responded to their offers yet.
I think this is very unfair for teachers who are dedicated to their jobs. Even though money isn't everything in the world, everybody should have some kind of offer to their job.
Thousands of Puerto Rican teachers marched to the gates of the governor's mansion sunday February 17th, threating to go on strike for higher salaries and better woking conditions and will not resume work if contract is not met up to their standards. The teachers want higher pay, smaller class sizes. They threatend to walk out on tuesday the 19th but the contract talk was resumed. The governer is continplating about going with their demands. Even though the teachers could be fired for going on strike because the local law forbids disruption of the public education system.
In my opioion the teachers have the right to go on strike if they are not happy with the way they are being treated, but they also have a job to do.
General Motors cars were given a new contract last year allowing the union to hire younger workers at lower wages. The new contracts were designed to reduce the labor costs and give them more of a chance to compete with foreign companies. Foreign companies have taken over 1/2 of the American market and are predicted to produce more cars within our country borders than US companies. The one benefit to this new contract is that healthcare is provided for current and retired workers.
I think the idea of lowering wages is a rotten, but good idea. A starting salary is always smaller than an employee who has been working for the company for years. By releasing older employees and paying for their healthcare after retirement it will save some money in the long run.
My article was about the idea that the supreme court on tuesday, it is not likely to order federal energy regulators to revise long-term wholsale energy signed by serval Western ultilities during the 2000-2001 energy crisis. The ultilities in California, Nevada, and Washington had been arguing and requesting refunds from contracts signed with teh power sellers. They made long-term agreements to provide power at set prices at a time when western ultilities were responding to choas in the spot of electrcity markets. After the crisis they wanted to break that contract to earn mone for their companies. I can understand why they want to make the prices higher for their company to earn money but they should also think about the people which are paying this money and they did have a strong contract aggreement.
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld a $2.46 million award to formwe Ohio State University basketball coach Jim O' Brien. The judges voted in favor not to accept the lower court's ruling of Jim O' Brien. O Brien was fired in 2004 after it was disclosed he gave $6000 to a former recruit. I find it ridiculous that after nearly 4 years, there is still dispute over this guy's contract. Ohio State University is the largest and wealthiest athletic department in the nation, so why is it such a big deal for them to resolve this out of court?
Four-time World Series Champion Derek Jeter recently was awarded the second-richest contract in sports history. Jeter, MVP of the World Series and All-Star Game last season, agreed to a $189 million, 10-year deal. After 13 months of negotiations, team owner George Steinbrenner finalized the deal. "I think everyone's blown away by the numbers," said Jeter, who is 26 years old. "I don't sit down and look at the numbers. I look more at that I have a chance to stay here."
That's an insane amount of money, but if they're going to pay it then why not take it? I would.
This article is about Philadelphia Phillie, Ryan Howard. His contract issue was that he wanted a contract worth ten million dollars but the phillies were only offering a seven million dollar contract. Since he was in an arbitration year, they had to go to court over the contract. Howard won his case and was awarded ten million dollars.
This was a big jump in money from what he earned the previous year. But he deserves it for the numbers he has been putting up for the last two years, including being the NL MVP in 2006.
This is about Brett Favre and back in 2001 he signed a 10-year $100 million contract. At the time he was the highest paid player in the NFL. This contract also stated that he would play for the Packers for life. He received somewhere around a $10 - $15 million signing bonus.
As a Packers fan I was excited that he signed a contract that would keep him Packer for the rest of his career. This was the biggest step toward creating another championship team.
Terry Francona agreed Sunday to a three-year contract extension to remain the manager of the Boston Redsox. The exstension comes with team options for the two years after the three years are up. Francona will be part of the Redsox organization through at least 2011. Francona signed a two year extension in March 2006 which will last through this year. The financial arangements of the deal were not released but for the man who led the Sox to their first World Series title in 86 years in 2004 and repeating this past season, the extension is well deserved.
I believe that Terry Francona really does deserve the extension. He was a horrible manager in Philadelphia but now with the Redsox something clicked and he know how to motivate them. Sports contracts are sooooo inflated, but he does deserve the extra time with the team.
Beijing lawyers that were dealing with employment conflicts were expecting more business thanks to the labor contract law taking effects. The labor contract law improves protection of employees' rights and charge more liabilities on employers. A new law also introduced clearer and stricter regulations on labor contracts. Like this, two laws both require an employer to sign a written contract with an employee but the latter writes in the time table to develop a contract and the punishments for the offender. The laws did not do well at several issues that easily breed conflicts, but it made great progress in protecting the basic rights of employees. These improvements should be more beneficial now.
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=37906&cat=6 This article is about the firing of coach Kelvin Sampson from Indiana. In his contract he had a clause that said he could not be fired for NCAA violations, so the university bought out the rest of his contract. This was brought on by the university of indiana. They knew Sampson had a past and yet they hired him anyways.
Johan Santana is now a picture for the New York Mets after being traded from Minnesota. This player is recieving a $137.5 million dollar 6 year contract. He is now the highest paid pitcher in major league baseball.Of course this is a great pitcher whos had tremendous acheivements over the past eight years he has been in the majors.
I think this is a rediculous amount of money to pay people to play a sport. I think the athletes do deserve the contracts though because they are creating the entertainment in which the general public cant stop watching. I also think that 137.5 million is a crazy amount to pay a pitcher especially because he only plays in every 1 out of 5 games. His annual salary is 22.6 mil and theres about 162 games in a season so that means he only gets to pitch in about 35. Of course hes not pitching all 9 innings every game. doing the math this man makes over a half million per start. Insane.
This story is about the University of Louisville sueing Duke University claiming that the Blue Devils opted out of a 4 game football contract they had with each other after the 1st game. THey are filign a suit for $450,000.
I just think Duke realized they they were going to get their buts handed to them every game so they back out the contract. Smart move except for they signed the contract with themm DUKE SUCKSssssss
19 comments:
Kayla
http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2257931,00.html
This article is about the women's cricket players in England, getting central contracts. They are receiving these contracts as a reward for beating Australia by six wickets (I don't know what a wicket is)at the Bradman Oval yesterday. In other countries like Australia and India, their players are paid a match fee. The contracts in England and Wales are the first of their kind in the sport. The cricketers contracts are worth between 40,000 pounds and 50,000 pounds. These contracts are to insure that the cricketers focus on their teams without the distraction of offers from other teams.
I think that giving contracts to the cricket players in England and Wales, gives them incentive to stay with one team longer than they would if they were just paid match fees. By having central contracts introduced i think that other countries that have prfessional cricket teams will follow England's example by rewarding their players with contracts.
Well this contract is pretty amazing. When Alex Rodriguez became a free agent in 2000, it looked like only the New York Mets would have the money for A-Rod’s demands. When the Mets pulled out of the running, only the Texas Rangers were left as possible suitors and they needlessly dropped a bid that was $50 million more than the second-place offer. Rodriguez quickly accepted the offer, which doubled Kevin Garnett’s previous record of $126-million.
The deal became a disaster for the Texas Rangers, who shipped A-Rod off to the New York Yankees along with $67 million. Meanwhile, the Yanks scooped up Rodriguez with a much better contract of roughly seven years at about $16 million per season.
Well I think that this is mouth dropping, but I’m happy that my yanks got him. I hope that one day I will make that much money.
james r
i forgot the website:
http://www.askmen.com/sports/fitness_top_ten_60/77d_fitness_list.html
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/02/07/schilling_sidelined_with_more_shoulder_issues/
This article is about a red sox baseball pitcher who was feeling discomfort in his shoulder and now doesnt know if he will be able to pitch this year. He already had surgery in 1995 after feeling discomfort, and now the pain is coming back. He signed an $8 million dollar contract in November and they think he might forfeit the contract if they tell him he cant get surgery again.
If someone is feeling discomfort and a doctor recommends surgery, they need to do whats best no matter if they are losing money or not. Peoples health and well being is more important than money, although some people would feel other ways. I also think it wouldnt be right if they threaten to not allow him to get the surgery.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_11_99/ai_71251683
Derek Jeter was awarded the second richest contract in sports history. The MVP of the World Series and Allstar Game (in 2000) agreed to $189 million and a ten year deal. He could have become a free agent after the 2001 season, he could have explored the league for more money--possibly beating Alex Rodriguez's $252 million deal with Texas.
I think that the amount of money athletes are recieving to play is huge. I think that national league teams have changed so much because of salaries. We can only hope that the athletes play well enough to deserve their contracts.
http://goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=592877
the article is about a midfielder from Bundesliga soccer club who extended his contract for two more years. the player, Balitsch arrived at the club three years ago from Mainz 05 and since then he has become a key player for the team.
i think that this was a good article. i think that the player showing great loyalty to his team by rejecting the other offers from the other teams.
http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2008/feb/13/teachers-give-school-board-poor-grades/
This article is about teachers in Janesville who are feeling their jobs are not as important and they feel unappreciated. The teachers have been working under the terms of their old contract all school year. The board has rejected their union's resonable offer for a settlement of the 2007-2009 contract. The teachers marched with signs outside the school before the school board meeting. The board has not responded to their offers yet.
I think this is very unfair for teachers who are dedicated to their jobs. Even though money isn't everything in the world, everybody should have some kind of offer to their job.
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2008/02/18/72165619
Thousands of Puerto Rican teachers marched to the gates of the governor's mansion sunday February 17th, threating to go on strike for higher salaries and better woking conditions and will not resume work if contract is not met up to their standards. The teachers want higher pay, smaller class sizes. They threatend to walk out on tuesday the 19th but the contract talk was resumed. The governer is continplating about going with their demands. Even though the teachers could be fired for going on strike because the local law forbids disruption of the public education system.
In my opioion the teachers have the right to go on strike if they are not happy with the way they are being treated, but they also have a job to do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/opinion/16sat3.html?_r=1&scp=20&sq=contracts&st=nyt&oref=slogin
General Motors cars were given a new contract last year allowing the union to hire younger workers at lower wages. The new contracts were designed to reduce the labor costs and give them more of a chance to compete with foreign companies. Foreign companies have taken over 1/2 of the American market and are predicted to produce more cars within our country borders than US companies. The one benefit to this new contract is that healthcare is provided for current and retired workers.
I think the idea of lowering wages is a rotten, but good idea. A starting salary is always smaller than an employee who has been working for the company for years. By releasing older employees and paying for their healthcare after retirement it will save some money in the long run.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200802191448DOWJONESDJONLINE000681_FORTUNE5.htm
My article was about the idea that the supreme court on tuesday, it is not likely to order federal energy regulators to revise long-term wholsale energy signed by serval Western ultilities during the 2000-2001 energy crisis. The ultilities in California, Nevada, and Washington had been arguing and requesting refunds from contracts signed with teh power sellers. They made long-term agreements to provide power at set prices at a time when western ultilities were responding to choas in the spot of electrcity markets. After the crisis they wanted to break that contract to earn mone for their companies.
I can understand why they want to make the prices higher for their company to earn money but they should also think about the people which are paying this money and they did have a strong contract aggreement.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/college/osu/2008/02/20/ddn022008obrienweb.html
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld a $2.46 million award to formwe Ohio State University basketball coach Jim O' Brien. The judges voted in favor not to accept the lower court's ruling of Jim O' Brien. O Brien was fired in 2004 after it was disclosed he gave $6000 to a former recruit.
I find it ridiculous that after nearly 4 years, there is still dispute over this guy's contract. Ohio State University is the largest and wealthiest athletic department in the nation, so why is it such a big deal for them to resolve this out of court?
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_11_99/ai_71251683
Four-time World Series Champion Derek Jeter recently was awarded the second-richest contract in sports history. Jeter, MVP of the World Series and All-Star Game last season, agreed to a $189 million, 10-year deal. After 13 months of negotiations, team owner George Steinbrenner finalized the deal. "I think everyone's blown away by the numbers," said Jeter, who is 26 years old. "I don't sit down and look at the numbers. I look more at that I have a chance to stay here."
That's an insane amount of money, but if they're going to pay it then why not take it? I would.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3256452
This article is about Philadelphia Phillie, Ryan Howard. His contract issue was that he wanted a contract worth ten million dollars but the phillies were only offering a seven million dollar contract. Since he was in an arbitration year, they had to go to court over the contract. Howard won his case and was awarded ten million dollars.
This was a big jump in money from what he earned the previous year. But he deserves it for the numbers he has been putting up for the last two years, including being the NL MVP in 2006.
Alex K
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_11_99/ai_71251683
This is about Brett Favre and back in 2001 he signed a 10-year $100 million contract. At the time he was the highest paid player in the NFL. This contract also stated that he would play for the Packers for life. He received somewhere around a $10 - $15 million signing bonus.
As a Packers fan I was excited that he signed a contract that would keep him Packer for the rest of his career. This was the biggest step toward creating another championship team.
James Hampson
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=akJ5KZno9ACA&refer=home
Terry Francona agreed Sunday to a three-year contract extension to remain the manager of the Boston Redsox. The exstension comes with team options for the two years after the three years are up. Francona will be part of the Redsox organization through at least 2011. Francona signed a two year extension in March 2006 which will last through this year. The financial arangements of the deal were not released but for the man who led the Sox to their first World Series title in 86 years in 2004 and repeating this past season, the extension is well deserved.
I believe that Terry Francona really does deserve the extension. He was a horrible manager in Philadelphia but now with the Redsox something clicked and he know how to motivate them. Sports contracts are sooooo inflated, but he does deserve the extra time with the team.
Gregory Price-Francois
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/09/content_7584608.htm
Beijing lawyers that were dealing with employment conflicts were expecting more business thanks to the labor contract law taking effects. The labor contract law improves protection of employees' rights and charge more liabilities on employers. A new law also introduced clearer and stricter regulations on labor contracts. Like this, two laws both require an employer to sign a written contract with an employee but the latter writes in the time table to develop a contract and the punishments for the offender. The laws did not do well at several issues that easily breed conflicts,
but it made great progress in protecting the basic rights of employees. These improvements should be more beneficial now.
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=37906&cat=6
This article is about the firing of coach Kelvin Sampson from Indiana. In his contract he had a clause that said he could not be fired for NCAA violations, so the university bought out the rest of his contract.
This was brought on by the university of indiana. They knew Sampson had a past and yet they hired him anyways.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3226412
Johan Santana is now a picture for the New York Mets after being traded from Minnesota. This player is recieving a $137.5 million dollar 6 year contract. He is now the highest paid pitcher in major league baseball.Of course this is a great pitcher whos had tremendous acheivements over the past eight years he has been in the majors.
I think this is a rediculous amount of money to pay people to play a sport. I think the athletes do deserve the contracts though because they are creating the entertainment in which the general public cant stop watching. I also think that 137.5 million is a crazy amount to pay a pitcher especially because he only plays in every 1 out of 5 games. His annual salary is 22.6 mil and theres about 162 games in a season so that means he only gets to pitch in about 35. Of course hes not pitching all 9 innings every game. doing the math this man makes over a half million per start. Insane.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3100938
This story is about the University of Louisville sueing Duke University claiming that the Blue Devils opted out of a 4 game football contract they had with each other after the 1st game. THey are filign a suit for $450,000.
I just think Duke realized they they were going to get their buts handed to them every game so they back out the contract. Smart move except for they signed the contract with themm DUKE SUCKSssssss
buchh
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