Now or then
Motivation and the contract year
Free agency has ushered a new term into professional sports: contract year. When players are in the final year of a contract, the common theory goes, they play harder and/or better, trying to get a big payday.
Before free agency, no such motivation existed. Athletes had no bargaining power.
But new Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips dismisses the whole notion.
"I don't k...
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