11.   A lucrative television contract has enabled the Yankees to spend more than other teams.

12.   Actually, the ABL started last Friday and has a television contract with SportsChannel.

13.   Adams also suggested Thursday that the SEC ought to look at television contracts, and consider who determines kickoff times.

14.   Alex Gilady of Israel joined after helping NBC negotiate television contracts.

15.   Brian Schechter, an analyst for Kagan Worldwide, suggested that stockholders would ultimately decide whether companies should continue to ratchet up the cost of sports television contracts.

16.   But these costs are sometimes offset by ticket sales, concessions and especially lucrative television contracts.

17.   Conference USA, in its third year of existence, offered Army access it did not previously have to a television contract and two bowl games.

18.   Declining attendance and the inability to land a television contract that could support football programs spelled doom for the NCAA Division I conference.

19.   Ebersol said that Giladi has never negotiated an Olympic television contract or has been part of creating a bid.

20.   For every National Football League franchise, the good news is all those freshly minted billions from the new television contracts.