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							- Bud Selig: Major League Baseball’s science adviser examining HGH test
 - Vail Resorts says more skiers visit its 5 resorts, spend more too; co. lifts workers’ wages
 - 25 years ago, prize money kept Boston Marathon from becoming also-ran in the running world
 - Stern says NBA now projecting salary cap to be about $56.1 million, higher than expected
 - Congress urges baseball, union to discuss banning smokeless tobacco during next CBA talks
 - Islanders improve from last season, disappointed to be out of playoffs again
 - AP Analysis: Baseball salaries up slightly despite recession and a slow free-agent market
 - John Beckett and Boston Red Sox agree to $68 million, 4-year extension through 2014
 - Baseball official familiar with deal: Boston, Beckett agrees to $68 million, 4-year extension
 - Cowboys release Pro Bowl LT Adams and safety Hamlin 2 years after both signed long-term deals
 - Study: Yankees’ players world’s highest-paid in team sports, ahead of Real Madrid, Barcelona
 - Major League Soccer looks to add stars following 5-year collective bargaining agreement
 - Major League Soccer minimum salary rises to $40,000 in 5-year labor deal
 - New Bobcats owner Michael Jordan taking patient approach, but determined to build a winner
 - Twins, Mauer agree on $184 million, 8-year contract extension
 - Twins, Mauer agree on 8-year, $184 million contract extension
 - MLS players insist labor strive and strike vote isn’t about money but player rights
 - Testifying at players’ doping trial, Vikings coach Childress says he didn’t leak test results
 - Major League Soccer players vote to authorize league’s 1st strike if no deal by March 25
 - Rockies, Helton agree to 2-year, $9.9 million extension to keep him in Colorado through 2013
 - Disappearance of salary cap has had little effect on free agency
 - Chiefs sign Pro Bowl free agent running back Thomas Jones to beef up backfield
 - With no labor contract, Crew plays Toluca in CONCACAF Champion League quarterfinal
 - Person familiar with negotiations: Dansby agrees to $43 million, 5-year deal with Dolphins
 - Federal mediator appointed for Major League Soccer labor talks
 - Vikes don’t have glaring needs as NFL offseason begins, but new backup running back now a must
 - No salary cap doesn’t lead to wild spending spree on first day of free agency
 - Person familiar with negotiations: LB Karlos Dansby visiting Miami Dolphins
 - With salary cap gone, NFL free agency steps into the unknown
 - Redskins cut 10 players in youth movement on eve of free agency; C Casey Rabach re-signs
 - Jets release CB Lito Sheppard after 1 disappointing season
 - Redskins cut 10 players on eve of free agency; purge of 30-somethings signals youth movement
 - How each of the 32 NFL teams are approaching free agency without a salary cap
 - Salary cap will be gone when NFL’s free agency begins Friday
 - Agent: Panthers ignoring Julius Peppers; expects 5-time Pro Bowl DE to leave in free agency
 - Officials with knowledge of talks tell AP: Pirates spurn sale offer by Penguins’ Mario Lemieux
 - GM Mike Tannenbaum says Jets need to have ‘best offseason’ of any team in AFC East
 - Major League Soccer and players extend bargaining past expiration to Feb. 12
 - NBA commissioner Stern suspends Wizards’ Arenas, Crittenton for remainder of season
 - NFL headed toward a season without a salary cap with chance of no football in 2011
 - Person familiar with negotiations tells AP: Phillies and Ruiz agree to $8.85M, 3-year deal
 - Astros and reliever Tim Byrdak agree to one-year, $1.6 million deal, avoid salary arbitration
 - Person familiar with negotiations says Ankiel gets $3.25 million, 1-year deal with Royals
 - King Felix gets his riches: ‘Mature’ Felix Hernandez, Mariners complete $78M, 5-year contract
 - RHP Joe Blanton agrees to $24 million, 3-year contract with Phillies
 - Johnson signs, Uggla stays: Marlins believe they’re building a winner to go with new home
 - OF Andre Ethier ($15.25 million) and closer Jonathan Broxton ($11 million) agree with Dodgers
 - OF Andre Ethier and Dodgers agree to $15.25 million, 2-year contract
 - Papelbon and Red Sox agree at $9.35 million; Ramirez, Delcarmen also settle
 - People with knowledge of the negotiations: Giants, C Bengie Molina reach $4.5M, 1-year deal
 - Person familiar with negotiations: Hernandez, Mariners closing in on $78 million, 5-year deal
 - Person with knowledge of the negotiations: Giants and C Bengie Molina agree to 1-year deal
 - Lincecum asks for record $13 million in arbitration; Giants counter with $8 million offer
 - Florida Marlins agree with Uggla ($7.8M), Sanchez ($1.25M) and Pinto ($1.075M)
 - Players, clubs rush to settle before salary arbitration exchange
 - Cincinnati Reds and RHP Nick Masset agree to 2-year contract, avoiding arbitration
 - Pay day: Giants ace Tim Lincecum among 128 players to file for salary arbitration
 - Person familiar with negotiations: Dodgers, Kemp agree to $10.95 million, 2-year deal
 - Major League Baseball committee to discuss expanded replay, posteason changes
 - Florida Marlins reach agreement with players’ union to increase baseball team’s payroll
 - Florida Marlins reach agreement with players’ union to increase team payroll
 - Supreme Court fight over NFL apparel license could have wide impact on sports and business
 - Person familiar with negotiations: Cincinnati Reds reach deal with Cuban LHP Aroldis Chapman
 - NBA suspends Arenas indefinitely without pay; David Stern says he’s ‘not fit to take the court’
 - Arenas indefinitely suspended without pay by NBA; Stern warns of ’substantial suspension’
 - Wizards’ Arenas takes responsibility for ‘bad judgment’ in bringing guns to locker room
 - Wizards late owner’s family upset over ‘extremely poor judgment’ in Arenas gun matter
 - Family of late Wizards owner speaks out on Arenas gun inquiry, cites ‘extremely poor judgment’
 - APNewsBreak: If NFL uncapped, 8 Pro Bowlers among 212 players with lesser free agency rights
 - Vikings leads NFC with 8 Pro Bowl members; Colts have 6 for AFC
 - With NFL labor situation, will more underclassmen than ever enter draft?
 - APNewsBreak: New York Yankees hit with $25.7 million luxury tax
 - Reds give Scott Rolen 2-year contract extension that pays him additional $13 million
 - Reds give 3B Scott Rolen 2-year contract extension through 2012 that pays him additional $13M
 - People familiar with negotiations: Garrett Atkins, Mike Gonzalez agree with Orioles
 - More free agents hit market: Wang, Atkins, Cust set loose when teams don’t offer contracts
 - More free agents hit market: Wang, Cust, MacDougal set loose when teams don’t offer contracts
 - More free agents hit market: Cust, Gomes, Redding set loose when teams fail to offer contracts
 - Woods’ time-out chips away at powerful Tiger Inc., golfer unlikely to reclaim pitchman crown
 - Tiger’s time-out chips at powerful Tiger Inc., golfer unlikely to reclaim top pitchman crown
 - Andy Pettitte and New York Yankees agree to $11.75 million, 1-year contract
 - Person with knowledge of deal says Pettitte, Yankees agree to $11.75 million, 1-year contract
 - Andy Pettitte, New York Yankees agree to $11.75 million, 1-year contract
 - Curtis Granderson headed to Yankees, Pudge to Nationals as winter meetings heat up
 - More play, less waiting: Baseball union wants longer first round of postseason, fewer days off
 - Michael Weiner succeeds Donald Fehr as baseball union head
 - New book ‘Soccernomics’ aims to bust myths about money and the world’s most popular sport
 - Angels vote full postseason share to Adenhart estate; Yankees’ shares worth more than $365,000
 - APNewsBreak: Average baseball salary falls just short of $3 million this year
 - Nets fire coach Lawrence Frank after 0-16 start; assistant Tom Barrise to coach Sunday
 - Washington Wizards’ Abe Pollin, NBA’s longest-tenured owner, dies at 85
 - Astana cycling team on the brink after ruling body makes new demands of financial guarantees
 - Union director Billy Hunter plans to meet soon with Stern, says salaries are dropping
 - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig says some major league clubs lost money during 2009
 - Bobcats acquire disgruntled Stephen Jackson from Warriors in 4-player deal