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BELICHICK FILES SUIT AGAINST JETS, NFL; NFLCA SUIT?

          Former Jets coach Bill Belichick "sued" the Jets and
     the NFL in U.S. District Court in Newark, NJ, yesterday "to
     free himself of his contract" with the team, according to
     Gerald Eskenazi of the N.Y. TIMES, who writes that Belichick
     "will learn Tuesday whether he can pursue a coaching job"
     with another team.  Belichick "filed for a restraining
     order" against the Jets and the NFL, "both of which contend
     he is under a valid contract that prevents him from going to
     another team without the Jets' permission."  Eskenazi notes
     that if Belichick is "successful in obtaining the order,"
     the Jets would have ten days to "show why the injunction
     should not be permanent."  Jets officials and the NFL
     declined to comment (N.Y. TIMES, 1/25).  In N.Y., Mark
     Kriegel writes that Belichick's attorney Jeffrey Kessler
     said that the NFL is "guilty of antitrust violations." 
     Kessler: "The Jets don't want to pay him any money.  They
     don't want to employ him as a head coach.  They simply want
     to say, 'We own his rights.'"  But Kriegel writes, "The Jets
     did want to pay him money.  They did want to employ him as a
     head coach.  There was just one small problem: Belichick
     quit" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 1/25).
          ANTITRUST LAWSUIT, PART II? In Boston, Will McDonough
     reports that the NFL Coaches Association is "preparing to
     file a multimillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit against the NFL
     owners, possibly the first move in intensifying
     confrontation between the league's assistant coaches and the
     owners."  McDonough adds that Kessler "reportedly has been
     retained" by the NFLCA.  More McDonough: "The coaches' case
     against the league will revolve around apparel they have to
     wear on the sidelines -- apparel for which the owners get
     millions and the coaches get nothing" (BOSTON GLOBE, 1/25).

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