NFL Lockout: Owners, Players Resume Mediation Monday
For NFL owners and the players they've locked out in this dispute over the division and future of the ever-popular $9 billion business, it's time to talk again.
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For NFL owners and the players they've locked out in this dispute over the division and future of the ever-popular $9 billion business, it's time to talk again.
DeMaurice Smith, head of the NFL Players Association, is prepared to take the NFL lockout battle to the bitter end.
With NFL teams unable to sign undrafted players because of the lockout, West Chester receiver Dan DePalma has been looking for almost anyone to throw him passes. He found an unexpected partner Wednesday: Giants quarterback Eli Manning.
The NFL is considering having the World Anti-Doping Agency oversee testing of players for performance-enhancing drugs if a federal appeals court forces the league to end the lockout, according to the New York Times.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell expressed frustration Thursday in the lack of negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement. "Unfortunately, I don't think we're making much progress in negotiations because they really aren't happening," he said.
A childhood friend of Tennessee Titans backup quarterback Chris Simms has told a jury the player wasn't smoking marijuana before being pulled over in New York City.
The helpless anguish of September 11, 2001 hits home for Giants head coach Tom Coughlin. His son, Tim, was on the 60th floor of the South Tower when NYC was attacked. Tim was one of the fortunate survivors, though Coughlin wouldn't know the fate of his son for hours.
The NFL draft resumed on its third and final day against a backdrop of a restored lockout. Right now, no one is sure when clubs will be ready to let any players walk back in to team headquarters.
From lockout to injunction to limbo and back to lockout - with a draft thrown in. Not even Super Bowl week gets that wild. Backed by an appeals court ruling, owners shut their doors once more, with players across the league trying to figure out where they stand - again.
The NFL locked out its players Friday night after its first legal victory in the fight with the players over the future of the $9 billion business.
The New York Giants have selected Nebraska cornerback Prince Amukamara with the 19th pick of the NFL draft.
The NFL has told teams to resume football operations. In a memo released Thursday hours before the draft, the NFL said players could resume voluntary workouts at team facilities, meet with coaches and go over playbooks.
The NFL draft always is a guessing game, but never before has it been accompanied by so much uncertainty.
The NFL has promised to give its teams guidance on what to do after another stinging rebuke from the same federal judge who lifted the lockout. Whether that includes rules for free agency or simply whether players can talk with their coaches was anyone's guess.
NFL players urged a federal judge Wednesday to deny the league's request to essentially restore the lockout, saying their careers were at stake. Commissioner Roger Goodell, meanwhile, said owners were preparing for every contingency.
NFL players say the league's request to put a federal judge's lockout ruling on hold should be denied. Why? They say every day it remains in effect they suffer more harm.
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"We don't have a date by which the season is lost, or a date by which we have to move from 16 games to some other (number)," Eric Grubman, the league's executive vice president for business operations, said Friday.
Joe Morris, Marty Lyons and 30 other retired NFL stars will announce their former teams' second or third-round picks at the NFL draft next Friday.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told Giants season-ticket holders in a conference call on Wednesday that the league is planning to start the 2011 season on time.
If the NFL settles its labor dispute, the New York Giants will open the 2011 season in Washington on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Jonathan Tisch and Woody Johnson announced Monday that Alfred F. Kelly Jr. will oversee preparations for the game at the New Meadowlands Stadium in February 2014, the NFL's first open-air, cold-weather Super Bowl.
Might the court-ordered mediation between the NFL and its players foreshadow progress toward ensuring that pro football goes on this fall? Or is it merely a formality that will yield little as long as a key legal ruling on the lockout is still pending?
The judge who will rule on the NFL players' request to lift the lockout imposed by the owners told both sides she "will impose forced mediation," according to USA Today.
The federal judge overseeing the NFL players' request to lift a lockout by the owners says it will take "a couple of weeks'' to rule.
