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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 Labor Issues Back In Court
The NFL legal road show gets underway this morning in a federal courtroom in St. Paul, where the league squares off against two sets of players seeking to lift the nearly month-old lockout and accusing the league of antitrust violations. The hearing begins at 9:30am CT and should wrap up by noon. NF ...
Tennis Players Appeal Gambling Ruling
The four Italian players who sued the ATP World Tour for suspending and fining them have appealed their loss to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. A U.S. Federal district court judge dismissed the case last month. The players were disciplined by the ATP for gambling, but they contend the circui ...
NFL Responds To Retired Players Lawsuit
The NFL today told a Minnesota federal court that for the same reasons it should reject an antitrust lawsuit brought by nine active NFL players, it should reject one brought by four retired ones. In addition, the NFL said the retired players, led by Carl Eller , also lack standing to bring the anti ...
Sony Introduces New Communications Exec
Sony Ericsson introduced Cathy Davies , its new head of communications and public relations, to the media at the Sony Ericsson Open Friday in Miami. A three-year veteran of the mobile handset maker, Davies had previously worked in branding there. Sony Ericsson is weak in the U.S. among hand set mak ...
NFLPA Today Filing Brief In TV Revenue Suit
The NFLPA was set to ask a federal court today for substantial damages from the NFL for allegedly short-changing the players in negotiating the last round of TV deals, a source said. Judge David Doty ruled on March 1 that the NFL had violated the CBA by inserting provisions into media deals to gua ...
New Team Owners Discuss Hurdles They Face
Keeping Dolphins fans engaged during the lockout is difficult, especially because fans side with the players, Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross said today at SBJ/SBD’s IMG World Congress of Sports.
NFL Players Reply To NFL's Legal Claims
The players suing the NFL for antitrust violations as expected claimed yesterday each of the league’s legal claims to keep the lockout in effect had already been rejected by the courts. Calling the NFL “antitrust recidivists,” the players in their reply brief called the league’s arguments that the p ...
Goodell Hopes CBA Talks Resume In April
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell expressed hope yesterday that collective bargaining negotiations could begin before next month’s Draft, something that is only likely, however, if the NFLPA faced significant setbacks. The class counsel for the players suing the NFL for antitrust violations, who are ...
NFL Owners Meeting Concludes This Evening
The NFL annual meeting is set to conclude in the next hour, with most of the day consumed by the passage of new procedures for kickoffs. The league also passed a new rule that teams must have a green field, an apparent move to head off any sponsor that might want to pay a team to shade its field a c ...
NFL Owners Meeting Wraps Up Today
NFL owners gather today for the second and final day of their annual meeting in New Orleans this week. Talk is expected to be dominated by a proposal to change the kickoff procedures. The league also will get an update on fan conduct from Jeff Miller , one of the league’s security professionals. Y ...
