1.   And if the NFL thinks the answer to its officiating labor impasse is hiring replacements, the game and its fans will suffer.

2.   Apart from hideous labor impasses, it takes a lot to stop baseball.

3.   As soon as implementation comes, the hot-stove subjects of choice will involve labor impasses, good-faith bargaining and the National Labor Relations Act.

4.   Before the calendar year is through, owners will declare a labor impasse and impose their version of fiscal restraint.

5.   But Bettman will be judged most for his handling of the current labor impasse.

6.   But not even the ample clout of the Oval Office, it seems, can penetrate the thick skulls of the baseball labor impasse.

7.   But the labor impasse was broken after a few weeks, and his former work mates got their jobs back, with back pay and raises.

8.   Cannot they see that the very actions they are taking during this interminable strike is contrary to the basic reasons for this labor impasse?

9.   Efforts to cut costs has led to a labor impasse.

10.   Few at this point expect it to go that far, but it is not a far-fetched prospect, and it has happened in past labor impasses.