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Microsoft, NFL Unveil $400M Partnership; Headset Category Not Included05 / 21 / 13Microsoft and the NFL today unveiled a major partnership, pegged by sources at about $400M over five years. The pact, expanding on a prior relationship between the league and the company, includes sideline rights allowing coaches to use Surface tablets for communications, play calling and photo view... |
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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 ...
Tennis Players Want Appeal Dismissed
The Italian tennis players appealing a lower court dismissal of their lawsuit against the ATP asked the appeals court yesterday to dismiss their appeal. The move comes shortly after their attorney asked to be removed from the case. The four Italian players in the filing give no reason for the move t ...
WISE Hosting Women Of The Year Awards
Women in Sports & Events (WISE) this afternoon hosts its annual Women of the Year awards lunch, honoring WTA Tour Chair & CEO Stacey Allaster , USOC CMO Lisa Baird and MLB Senior VP/Diversity & Strategic Alliances Wendy Lewis . Also, for the first time, WISE will present the WISE C ...
NFL Says Ticket Sales In Decline
Since the NFL briefed owners last month that season-ticket sales were trending ahead of last year’s, notwithstanding the lockout, the trend has reversed, said NFL VP/Communications Brian McCarthy . The figure provided to owners last month was through May 7, he explained. But new data through ...
More Than 20 NFL Players Present In Court
More than 20 NFL players were present in the courtroom Friday morning as the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments about whether the nearly 12-week-old lockout should be lifted. “We are staying together,” Vikings DE Brian Robison said after the hearing in explaining the nu ...
Appeals Court To Hear NFL Antitrust Case
The NFL and the 10 players suing the league for antitrust abuses square off in a St. Louis federal courtroom today, with the players seeking a judicial order that the lockout is illegal. The proceedings have been overshadowed partly by the disclosure of a secret meeting between the league and player ...
Redskins Coaches Oppose Amicus Brief
Seventeen Redskins coaches signed a letter today opposing the legal filing from the National Football Coaches Association yesterday siding with the players in their antitrust lawsuit against the league. “The Washington Redskins coaching staff has not given its backing to the brief filed with t ...
NFL Teams To Be Fined For Illegal Hits
The NFL will fine teams next season for an as yet to be determined number of illegal hits, the league announced this afternoon during the owners meetings in Indianapolis. The policy is still being crafted, but for the first time teams can be liable for the illegal hits, not just the players. Under C ...
NFL Response Due June 6
The NFL will not have to respond today to the antitrust lawsuit filed March 11 by 10 players against the league, but the response is now due June 6, not July 6 as the league had requested. The league has requested a third extension because it is appealing a lower court’s decision lifting the l ...
