Rookie compensation: Owners (and some veterans) were upset that top draft picks instantly became some of the highestpaid playersif not the highestat their position. Under the new system each team is expected to be assigned an aggregate amount it can spend on its rookies, depending on draft position. (But it will not be like the NBA's structure, in which salaries are predetermined and slotted so each player earns less than the person drafted ahead of him.) General managers can then divide the money among firstyear players as they see fit.Saturday, September 14 last marked the 66th anniversary of the Polo Grounds AllIreland final between Cavan and Kerry. The story of the final has been told in a new book entitled The Fairytale in New York, by Paul Fitzpatrick published by Ballpoint Press. In this extract, we hear of how the seed of an idea was originally planted by a Kerry man based in the Big Apple, John 'Kerry' O'Donnell, who began lobbying his friend, a powerful GAA figure called