NFL labor impasse continues

NFL owners Thursday evening voted in favor of a comprehensive deal that would provide for a new collective-bargaining agreement as well as resolution to outstanding legal issues between the league and players, but contingent on NFL players re-forming as a union and signing off on the same deal. ...

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NFL Owners, Players Could Vote On CBA Today

NFL owners and players could each vote today on a new 10-year labor pact and to end the antitrust litigation against the league, though significant hurdles remained as of this morning. The NFL does not want to approve separate deals to settle the Brady v NFL antitrust lawsuit and then a labor deal ...

Dryer Blasts Lawyer In NFL Case

Fred Dryer , the former NFL player who is the lead plaintiff in a case against the league seeking payment from NFL Films, blasted a lawyer that he alleges is trying to hijack the case. In a July 10 letter to Charles Zimmerman of  Zimmerman Reed that was filed today in Minnesota federal court ...

Former Players Join Case Against NFL

One of the law firms representing retired players who sued the NFL in '09 for not paying them for using their images in NFL Films products has now signed up 600 former players. Currently there are six named plaintiffs to the case, which is scheduled to go to trial April 1. That disclosure was made i ...

Dodgers Blast MLB In Court Filing

The Dodgers blasted MLB in court papers filed this morning with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for declining to produce requested documents and executives for depositions. The controversy is only the latest dustup between MLB and the Dodgers, who filed for bankruptcy last we ...

Dodgers Secure Interim $60M Loan

The Dodgers agreed not to pursue a new cable deal, at least for the moment, as part of an agreement yesterday to win MLB and court approval for a $60M interim financing package that will allow the bankrupt club to meet payroll tomorrow. MLB had objected in bankruptcy court filings yesterday mor ...

Dodgers Bankruptcy Hearing Underway

The Dodgers bankruptcy hearing got underway this afternoon with the team and MLB squaring off over the future of the club. Just prior to the hearing, MLB offered to lend the club emergency funding, a move the team called “nothing other than a thinly veiled effort to take control over” th ...

MLB Would Give Dodgers Financing

MLB plans to tell a Delaware federal bankruptcy court today it is prepared to provide alternative financing to the Dodgers, sources said. The Dodgers and four related entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday, and asked the court to approve a high interest rate $150M loan from ...

NFL Owners, Players Meeting For More Talks

NFL owners and players are scheduled to meet today for the fourth round of intense negotiations this month, following yesterday’s five-and-a-half hour owners meeting outside Chicago. Beginning this morning, owners on the labor negotiating team are meeting outside Boston with the players f ...

Eller Offering Settlement To NFL Suit

Pro Football HOFer Carl Eller attended the NFL owners meetings today to offer a settlement to the retirees’ antitrust lawsuit against the league, the former players’ counsel, Michael Hausfeld , said. As the league and its current players have been engaged in significant negotiati ...