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Sorry charley, the NFL is the only one that's thriving. All the others are seeing massive revenue, attendance, and rating and drops (I'm a sports junky I stay tied to these things, this year the MLB saw head-to-head late season games between teams competing for the penant no sell out, make or break the season games with thousands of empty seats). Coincidentally the NFL has the least powerful of the 4 unions (and yet average salary is just over a million, no starving athletes in the NFL. Hmm maybe it's not a coincidence that the sport with the weakest union, and the least recent labor dispute, who recently renewed they're CBA a full 18 months before it expired, is the only one pulling in more revenue every year. Then of course we go past the so called "major sports" and look at entirely non-unionized sports: tennis - revenues are up, golf - up, NASCAR - WAY up, CART and Indy are down but that's because they're splitting one market into two with constant infighting (almost like they had a union).

Unions are bad for business, there's no other way to look at it without ignoring the plainly visible evidence.