31.   Owners would like to implement a restrictive salary cap that would eventually put a ceiling on how much one player can earn.

32.   Players earn the awards, not sports information offices.

33.   Players earned free agency and began hopping from team to team.

34.   Players earn points based on performance.

35.   Right now, a player must earn a degree or play four years of college basketball before she is eligible.

36.   Sixteen players have earned opportunities to win spots.

37.   The baseball players could earn extra for each hit, home run, each fly ball caught, etc.

38.   The board maintains that the changes the owners made unilaterally in the working terms and conditions they agreed to restore would significantly affect what the players could earn.

39.   The marginal players are forced out and the players who produce earn more.

40.   The level of competition is stiff, but the players have earned their ways to this level.