The Mets and SportsChannel are within weeks of a new rights package to replace the contract that runs through 2012.

The sides have been unable to make much progress since in the five months since talks started to replace the contract that expired Aug. 31.

He is the man operating baseball's new television venture, the one that replaced the massively lucrative contract the major leagues had with CBS.

Low writes in "Behind the Gates" that the covenants, contracts and deed restrictions of private housing associations have replaced the social contract in American life.

Talks are scheduled to begin soon on a four-year labor agreement at all three Detroit automakers to replace the contract that expires in September.

Then he shook his head, and replaced the contract in his pocket.

Negotiations are continuing to replace the contract that expired March 31.

The deal was retroactive to January 1, 2008, and ran through December 31, 2012, replacing the original contract signed in December 2005.

The new deal replaces the $10 million, three-year contract the league had since 1998 with ESPN.com.

Tagliabue said the league is continuing negotiations on a new television deal to replace the $18 billion contract that expires after the 2005 season.