"Through growing these business lines, we'll have huge firepower to make player acquisitions," he said.
Mr. Blank could hardly be expected to make player personnel decisions — and thankfully, he knew better than to try.
If we dial it back to 2007, we didn't make player commitment at one of our commitment events.
But it doesn't lessen the pain, and now the highly-respected Scotland team doctor, James Robson, is calling for Rugby World Cup organizers to make player welfare a priority when the schedules for future World Cups are drawn up.
The NWSL continues to make player transactions in the offseason, with the runner-up Washington Spirit puzzlingly unloading some of its top talent, but longtime fans remember that national team players were late reporting to their teams in 2013 because they had no bargaining agreement in place.
Bill Daly, an executive vice president of the league, said that the proposals were "not all that different" from each other, but that each would lead to cost certainty, a mantra for Commissioner Gary Bettman in his effort to make player costs align more closely with revenues.
