NFL Lockout: League Again Asks To Keep Work Stoppage In Place
The NFL hasn't wavered in this message to its locked-out players: Get out of the courts and come back to the bargaining table.
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The NFL hasn't wavered in this message to its locked-out players: Get out of the courts and come back to the bargaining table.
The NFL has canceled next month's rookie symposium, the first league event called off because of the lockout. League spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday the decision was made because of "the uncertainty of the labor issues we are facing."
A federal magistrate has rejected the NFL's request for more time to file a response in the pending antitrust lawsuit filed by its locked-out players.
Armed with a key victory in the courts, NFL owners will gather Monday for their annual spring meetings.
After a key victory in court by NFL owners, the players say they aren't panicking. Unity remains their motto. How long they can remain unified is the question being asked just about everywhere else.
NFL owners and players and their legal counsel have returned to court for another round of mediation. Commissioner Roger Goodell arrived Tuesday morning with other league leaders, and other owners entered the courthouse in separate small groups.
After a series of stinging rebukes from federal judges, the NFL has a significant, favorable ruling in hand from a higher court.
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.
