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CHICAGO -- Tom Ricketts was walking back to the owners meetings Wednesday when he was stopped by a few people on the street, eager to congratulate him on the Chicago Cubs World Series title.Such is life for Ricketts these days. It has been two weeks since the franchise won its first championship since 1908, and the party is still going strong.Its great. I mean the teams a member of the family for a lot of folks, Ricketts said, and the fact that we had this kind of success after all these years of not quite getting there is just magical for this whole city.Ricketts will be acknowledged by his fellow owners for the title at some point during the meetings, but otherwise its pretty much business as usual. Asked whether he might be handed a few more bar tabs as a result of the historic championship, a grinning Ricketts responded: Well see tonight.Among the steak dinners, drinks and hallway chatter at The Drake in downtown Chicago, the dominant item on the owners agenda is baseballs collective bargaining agreement, which expires Dec. 1. Negotiators for owners and players have been meeting since spring training.Baseball has not had a work stoppage since 1994-95, and Commissioner Rob Manfred appears confident there will be an agreement by December.I trust the commissioner, trust the commissioners office, New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner said. Theyre going to do a great job, and everybodys been working hard. Thats about all I could add.Some of the major issues include the owners desire for a draft of international amateur players, the luxury-tax threshold and whether there will be changes to the draft-pick compensation system for premier free agents.The uncertainty surrounding the CBA could affect free agency and trade talks, but Steinbrenner made it sound as if the Yankees are pretty set about their plans no matter what happens with the labor talks.I dont think its going to impact it much as far as where were going to be, Steinbrenner said. I mean weve got money coming off the payroll for the first time in a few years, and were going to put a decent portion of it back into the club, like we always do. How much remains to be seen, depending on what our needs are and whats available.The Yankees traded slugger Carlos Beltran and relievers Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman in a rare pre-deadline sell-off on their way to an 84-78 record and a fourth-place finish in the AL East. Steinbrenner reiterated his desire to get under the luxury-tax threshold, wherever it lands with the new agreement, but he mentioned upgrading the bullpen as a priority.That could lead to a reunion with Chapman, who saved 20 games for the Yankees before helping the Cubs win the World Series.Look, anytime you can get a guy thats already proven he can play in New York ... its a tough place to play and if you can get a guy thats proven he can play there, then thats a plus, Steinbrenner said.Everyone is chasing the Cubs after they won a major league-best 103 games and the franchises third championship. But winter also is the season for stadium renovations, and the Yankees and Cubs are both working on construction projects.Yankee Stadium is getting more social gathering places, and the club also is enhancing its facility in Tampa, Florida. Wrigley Field is getting what Ricketts called a home plate club of premium seats, similar to other stadiums, but nothing as dramatic as when the jumbo videoboards were added to the iconic ballpark for 2015.Now it really is primarily about rebuilding the park and adding bathrooms and adding points of sale and doing all the little things to make it not only the park you would want to watch a game in, but one that serves as then like a modern park, Ricketts said.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap Alyn Beals Jersey . After taking two big hits this week -- losing at home and dropping back-to-back games for the first time all season -- Indiana struck back by playing its most complete game of the year. Emmanuel Sanders Jersey . Robinson finished with 17 points, all but two in the second half, and Lawson had 14 after halftime and finished with a game-high 11 assists as the Nuggets handed Dallas its first home loss in eight games this season. J.J. 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And it might be Tuesday, when the No. 18 Orange host the defending Patriot League champion Holy Cross Crusaders at 7 p.m. at the Carrier Dome.Lydon, who averaged 10.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game as a freshman, was recently named to the 2017 Naismith Trophy Mens 50 College Player of the Year Preseason Watch List. The 6-foot-9 Lydon scored just two points on 1-for-6 shooting with six rebounds in 26 minutes in Syracuses season-opening 83-55 romp over Patriot League-member Colgate Friday night at the Dome. And counting Syracuses two exhibition games, Lydon is 0-for-11 on 3-pointers this season.I wasnt really trying to force anything. My shot hasnt been falling for me so Ill keep working through it, Lydon said. The first three games, even though the first two were exhibition games, I havent made 3-pointers so clearly its a slump but you just have to keep shooting the ball and it will come.Orange coach Jim Boeheim said Lydon, who is playing mostly small forward after playing all over the frontcourt last season, is straying too far from the basket.I think we should have done a better job at getting him to the basket and I think he has to rebound and get on the offensive boards a little better, Boeheim said. And when he gets there, he has to finish or pass it out for a jump shot. But he is a good shooter and if he shoots it, he will be fine.Lydon and the Orange should face a tougher test Tuesday night against a Holy Cross team thats coming off its first Patriot League Tournament championship in nine years and is one of the favorites to win another conference title.dddddddddddd The Crusaders return four starters and eight of its top 10 players from a 15-20 team that got hot at the right time and won its four Patriot League Tournament games on the road and then defeated Southern in the First Four for its first NCAA Tournament victory since 1953.We have a number of experienced players back who know what it takes to win a Patriot League championship, coach Bill Carmody said. But if we are going to be successful over the course of the entire season, we will have to be much more consistent on both ends of the court.The Crusaders got off to a rough start as they fell 81-49 Sunday night at South Carolina in what was technically the first game of the Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational Tournament. Syracuse, South Carolina, Holy Cross, Monmouth and South Carolina State are playing round-robin tournament games, but Syracuse and South Carolina are already scheduled to play in the championship game Nov. 26 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.Among the Crusaders returning starters are senior guard Robert Champion (4.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game last season) and senior forward Malachi Alexander (11.8 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists), who was the 2016 Patriot League Tournament MVP. Against South Carolina, Champion (18 points) and Alexander (15) shot a combined 12-for-26 and scored 33 of Holy Cross 49 points and grabbed a 10 of the Crusaders 16 rebounds. ' ' '