21.   For years, the CFL has been vastly overshadowed by the more affluent NFL and its billion-dollar television contracts.

22.   Funds come primarily from bowl games, television contracts for football and basketball and the NCAA basketball tournament.

23.   Gossage said an exact purse breakdown would not be possible until television contracts have been negotiated.

24.   Having a team in Los Angeles would give the NFL leverage when it re-opens its television contracts after five years of the eight-year deal.

25.   He never played a minute or stepped to the podium to announce the procuring of a billion-dollar network television contract.

26.   He said he was trying to persuade Dick Pound to return as the IOC negotiator of sponsorship and television contracts.

27.   He said Nine Network has confirmed it will honor its commitments to existing television contracts and funding arrangements with the ARL.

28.   Hockey is a sport that has a lousy television contract and needs ticket money to stay afloat.

29.   Hockey is more fan-driven than baseball, football and basketball, which are underwritten by lucrative television contracts.

30.   However, without a television contract, the company was doomed to failure.