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2011 NFL lockout

On July 5, 2011, a group of retired NFL players led by Carl Eller, Franco Harris, Marcus Allen and Paul Krause filed its own class-action lawsuit against both the NFL and NFLPA, stating that the renunciation of CBA rights disqualified the NFLPA from bargaining on the former NFL players' behalf.

Bob Goodenow

On July 28, 2005, Goodenow was asked to step down as NHLPA chief and was replaced by Ted Saskin, NHLPA Senior Director of Business Affairs and Licensing and the head negotiator during the CBA contract talks.

Bulacan State University College of Business Administration

The Bulacan State University College of Business Administration (BulSU-CBA) (Filipino: Unibersidád ng Bulacán, Koléhiyó ng Pagnenegosyo) is a college within the BulSU system which offers business and business-related courses.

CBAM-FM

The original CBA transmitter site at the Tantramar Marshes near Sackville continued to broadcast Radio Canada International around the world on shortwave radio as well as relay broadcasts for several foreign shortwave broadcasters.

Central Bank of Azerbaijan

A limitation on FDI in the banking sector was reduced when the CBA increased the limit on participation of banks with foreign ownership from 30 to 50 percent of the commercial banking market.

Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio

After acquiring a 10% stake in mining company Mineração Rio do Norte, CBA now holds bauxite mines in the South-East part of Parana State and has another mine in the municipality of Cataguases and Itamarati de Minas in Minas Gerais State.

Darryl McDonald

After graduating from Texas A&M, McDonald spent several years playing in the relative obscurity of the Canadian NBL, where he was named an All-Star in 1993 while playing to Cape Breton, and the CBA where he played for the Oklahoma City Cavalry and the Sioux Falls Skyforce.

Eddy Paape

He started his career as an animator, working from 1942 on at CBA, the same animation studio where a few years later he would be joined by future Belgian cartoonists André Franquin, Peyo, and Morris).

Elvin Mims

Mims has played in Australia,Iceland,USA & Canada with the PBL, USBL, CBA leagues, and now the NBL.

KIPCO Asset Management Company KSC – KAMCO

KAMCO facilitated the Burgan Bank / KAMCO dealing room – a first-of-its-kind virtual Dealing Room in Kuwait featuring Reuters Terminals - at Kuwait University’s College of Business Administration (CBA).

Marc Kestecher

Before Kestecher worked for ESPN, he was the play-by-play announcer for the Albany Firebirds of the Arena Football League and the Albany Patroons of the CBA.

Mark Macon

Macon also briefly represented the CBA's Florida Beachdogs and Italian club Mabo Pistoia, while still contracted to the Pistons, and Oyak Bursa Spor Kulubu (Turkey), the Atlantic City Seagulls (USBL) and Venezuela's Toros de Aragua, from 1999 to 2001.

NBA salary cap

The tight salary-matching rules of the 2005 CBA often required what NBA cap analyst Larry Coon called "trade ballast"—extra players added to a deal solely for salary matching, who would typically be waived by their new teams.

Payroll Room

The "Payroll Room" is a term that originated in 2005 with the National Hockey League's new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) which was negotiated following a season-long lockout.

Sport in China

The fact that USA is starting to notice Chinese players after Yao Ming's success (compared to Wang Zhizhi and Mengke Bateer), and young CBA players such as Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue entering the NBA are examples of this change in trend.

Vancouver Dragons

The Vancouver Dragons were a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), and one of seven (7) minor league sports franchises owned by Seattle attorney and businessman Michael Tuckman, CEO of West Coast Sports, LLC.

Wang Libin

After two unsuccessful seasons coaching in the CBA, Wang resigned as the Kylins head coach and accepted another commission to coach the Northwestern Polytechnical University varsity team.

Washington Avenue Armory

In 2006, the CBA Patroons were joined by the former Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs of the USBL though their first home game as the USBL Patroons did not take place until 2007.


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