"How dare the NFL commissioner paint his ownership cartel as helpless victims of a rookie salary structure that's wrongly eating into teams' insane profit margins?"
"An agreement would represent a big shift in strategy for the NFL: abandoning its effort to force cable operators into carrying its own network and thus paying it lucrative monthly fees. It would also send a message to other professional sports, which have enjoyed rising television fees for years …"
"Comcast will initially carry Big Ten as part of its expanded basic level of service in seven states with Big Ten universities ... Comcast may elect to move Big Ten to a broadly distributed digital level of service in most of its systems in those states."
