BY JAMES RUMSCHLAG, STAFF WRITER The Major League Baseball, MLB, Lockout is when there is no agreement between the MLB Commissioner, Rob Manfred and the MLB Players Association, MLBPA. The lockout began on December 2, 2021, after the current deal had expired on December 1st, and neither side could come to a collective agreement. As…
Kerri Linsenbigler Features Editor As a life-long season ticket holder for the Buffalo Sabres, Tuesday’s surprise National Hockey League’s contract offer thrilled me. I thought I could watch some hockey again. I imagined myself sitting among 18,000 fellow Sabres fans at the First Niagara Center. I pictured the Sabres turning their luck around and making…
By Taylor Nigrelli Assistant Sports Editor As Yogi Berra once said “it’s déjà vu all over again!” For the third time in 18 months North American sports fans face the possibility of a lockout. This time the perpetrators are the players and owners of the National Hockey League. Every time a labor dispute occurs in…
By Kyle Zamiara Promotions Editor As September comes to a close, NHL fans will be dreading an October with no puck drops. That’s right, the league is once again in a lockout. It didn’t seem so long ago when the league locked out for what felt like eternity in the 2004-05 season. I had never…