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The get tackled, fouled, body-checked and more to make their money. And then, pro athletes get beat up again by the tax men.

When it comes to the profit side of the pro basketball lockout, nobody wins -- except maybe basketball fans' savings accounts. Those fans and the money that the now-shuttered NBA stands to lose will not migrate to another sport.

The owners of Boston's Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins recently held a panel to discuss ways to cut ticket prices for the average fan -- and came up with virtually nothing. So DailyFinance asked experts and fans for creative ways to push ticket prices down. Here are the 10 best we heard.

Comcast's takeover of NBC Universal got the green light from the FCC and the Justice Department on Tuesday. The deal creates an entertainment colossus in television, movies, the Internet and theme parks. Will it also make Comcast a formidable challenger to Walt Disney's ESPN?

With high-speed Internet access becoming ubiquitous, today's telecommuters can live just about anywhere. DailyFinance has gone hunting for the cities that offer the best combination of urban charm, culture and recreation, at prices that New Yorkers and Angelenos would envy.

It's an unemployed hockey fan's hat trick: a free NHL game, a first look at a brand-new arena and a job fair all at once. The Pittsburgh Penguins are giving away all 18,000 tickets for its Sept. 25, preseason game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at the new Consol Energy Center. Eight-thousand of...

Fans of the Chicago Blackhawks aren't the only ones celebrating their Stanley Cup victory. NBC Sports says the game that decided the National Hockey League champion attracted an overnight rating of 5.8 and a 10 share, the best showing in 36 years.

The National Hockey League has just started another season -- and just missed a chance to take a bold step to win a new generation of fans. The NHL should put all games online for free, supported by ads. The NHL's TV ratings are the worst among major sports. Ratings in 2008–2009 were down...

The National Basketball Association is the latest professional sports league to try and figure out what, if anything, it needs to do about Twitter. NBA officials "plan on having some sort of guidance" about the wildy popular micro-blogging site before next month's start of the season, according to...

According to Bloomberg, an unidentified source reports that Cablevision (CVC) is getting ready to spin off its Madison Square Garden assets into a new company that will be called, oddly enough, Madison Square Garden. Cablevision stockholders will be given one share of the new company for every CVC...