NFL's Pash Offers Lockout Update

The NFL proposed allowing players to invest alongside owners in various ventures as part of the league’s final labor proposal that the NFLPA rejected on March 11, NFL Exec VP & General Counsel Jeff Pash told reporters today at the NFL annual meeting in New Orleans. The proposal was seen by the ...

ATP Asks Court For Legal Fees From Tourneys

The ATP World Tour Friday asked the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to force two of its tournaments to pay the circuit roughly $20M in legal fees and costs associated with their failed antitrust lawsuit against the tour. The German tournament, partially owned by the Qatari Tennis Federation ...

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NFL Owners Meeting In New Orleans

NFL owners gather for their annual meeting in New Orleans beginning this morning, the first meeting since the league locked out the players nine days ago. The owners' labor committee met yesterday, and obviously the labor cloud threatening the '11 season will be the primary topic of the meeting. The ...

NFLPA Decertified Late Friday

The NFL Players Association filed papers Friday to decertify, effectively disbanding the union and giving it the chance to sue under antitrust laws if there is a lockout. In a statement, the group said, “The NFLPA will move forward as a professional trade association with the mission of supporting ...

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NFL, NFLPA Talks Turn Combative

The NFL appears likely to enter into a period of labor turbulence today, as the league and union began aggressively sniping again at each other last night after a relative period of calm overseen by a federal mediator. With the CBA expiring at the end of the day, and the deadline for the union decer ...

NFL Labor Talks Continue

The full ownership contingent on the NFL's labor committee arrived at the federally mediated talks between the NFL and NFLPA by mid-afternoon, minus Patriots Owner Robert Kraft , who is in Israel. Sources said the talks had slowed down somewhat today waiting for the nine members of the la ...

ATP Seeks Legal Fees From Players

The ATP is seeking more than $480,000 in legal fees and costs from the four Italian players, and the estate of a fifth, whose lawsuit against the tour was thrown out of court last week. The players had been suspended and fined for gambling on the sport, but sued the ATP for allegedly improperly fail ...

NFL Execs Say Doty Decision Did Not Cause Extension Of CBA

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Exec VP & General Counsel Jeff Pash said that a federal judge’s decision to require the league to put media fees into escrow during a lockout had no effect on the league staying at the negotiating table. The league had wanted to be able to use the fees. Federal ...

No New CBA In Sight For NFL

No new CBA appears on the horizon for the NFL, with the current deal set to expire at the end of the day today. NFL owners cut short their gathering in Chantilly, Va., yesterday, meeting for about two-and-a-half hours before many of them left, including several key owners on the labor negotiating te ...

Judge Overturns NFL Media Fee Decision

U.S. District Court Judge David Doty late yesterday overturned a decision that would have allowed the NFL to use $4B in media fees during a potential lockout later this year. He said he planned to hold hearings to set damages. Doty's decision comes as the NFL and NFLPA are engaged in federally o ...