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California workers’ comp board ruling defers to ‘forum provisions’ in players’ contracts05 / 21 / 12In a ruling that could alter the sparring between the NFL and NFL Players Association over where players can file workers’ compensation claims, a California regulatory body said earlier this month that it would respect provisions of an NFL contract that specified the state in which such claims... Tags: Labor and Agents |
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ATP going back to court
The ATP, nearly four years after scoring a significant antitrust victory in a Delaware federal court, now must go back to that court to defend a key policy designed to make the federations that sued the tour pay the $20 million in legal fees. The development comes as the ATP this month also sued ...
Bounty scandal exposes player-coach rift
As the NFL and NFL Players Association battle over the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, a third front is emerging in one of the league’s biggest offseason stories: a split between coaches and players. While the suspended coaches quickly acquiesced to the NFL’s punishment, the NFLPA ...
Bills to keep Toronto dates
The Bills’ game in Toronto this season is scheduled for Dec. 16 against Seattle. Photo by: GETTY IMAGES Editor's note: This story is revised from th ...
Tags: Franchises
Tennis headliners are Prince creditors
Prince Sports’ bankruptcy filing last week reverberated though the professional tennis world, with more then three dozen entities listed as creditors ranging from the world’s No. 2 women’s player, Maria Sharapova, to governing bodies of the sport. More than two dozen players hav ...
Tags: Finance
Helmet maker uses safety as sales tool
Three years ago, Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk tried a new helmet with a different type of interior cushioning system. Since then, he said, he hasn’t suffered a concussion nor even the normal headaches and wooziness that Birk says are commonplace in the game. This season, up to 150 NFL ...
The NFL’s concussion conundrum
They are the NFL’s mushrooms, seemingly popping up around every corner at a moment’s notice. Concussion lawsuits — 68 of which have been filed between July 2011 and last week — encompass more than 1,800 former players ranging from hall of famers to has-beens. ...
Wimbledon designs webcas
Wimbledon this summer will produce a daily five-hour-plus webcast for online and mobile consumption, one of the most aggressive digital pushes to date among major sporting events. Unlike the model often employed in the United States, the Wimbledon model employs only a smattering of live-event str ...
Tags: Media
Slams face rare labor fight
When Wimbledon on Wednesday unveils prize money for this year’s fortnight, the news is likely to trigger far more reaction in the sport than what typically greets a historically mundane and quickly forgotten news item about an increase of a few percentage points in the size of the purse. Wh ...
Tags: Labor and Agents
Three tennis events sign title sponsors
The summer pro tennis circuit in the United States will get a shot in the arm this week with title sponsorship deals from three financial institutions, including one agreement for a new combined event sponsored by Citigroup in Washington, D.C. Taken together, the deals are a signal that tennis, w ...
NFL hosting HR event
The NFL on Tuesday plans to host a conference of human resource professionals from the sports industry. The conference, run by HR services firm Mercer, also will include representatives from the U.S. Tennis Association, the NBA and NASCAR. Robert Gulliver, the NFL’s chief diversity officer, ...
