On Long Island, Bob Glauber notes NFL outside counsel Daniel Nash yesterday "sent a letter" to federal judge Richard Berman "in response to a bid" by the NFLPA to overturn Commissioner Roger Goodell's four-game suspension of Patriots QB Tom Brady. The letter was a "response to a list submitted last week by NFLPA attorney Jeffrey Kessler citing 19 cases from the Second Circuit court in New York in which arbitration decisions were overturned." Nash wrote, "These cases confirm that courts vacate arbitration awards only in extraordinary circumstances, none of which are present here." Nash cited several Second Circuit cases in which the arbitration awards "were overturned, but concluded the cases did not bear any resemblance to the Brady case" (NEWSDAY, 8/25). SI.com's Michael McCann wrote under the header, "How Brady, Goodell Could Reach A Settlement In Deflategate Case" (SI.com, 8/24).
JOINING FORCES? GOLF WORLD's John Huggan writes it is "safe to assume the most obvious consequence of ongoing talks" between the European and Asian Tours over the coming months "will be about co-sanctioned tournaments for bigger prize money." However, there are "wider and longer-term implications for what could become a 'Eur-Asian' circuit, in time capable of seriously rivaling the financial clout that currently draws so many of the game's best players to the PGA Tour." Time will tell "as to the extent of the economic strength that will result from this new and closer relationship" between tours, but it suggests an "active effort to combat the PGA Tour's pre-eminency" (GOLF WORLD, 8/24 issue).
FUTURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE: SI.com's Allan Muir wrote with NHL Kings D Slava Voynov about to conclude his 45-day jail sentence for domestic violence, the "moment has long passed" for the NHL to "come to a final resolution in a timely fashion." Voynov deserves to know whether he will be "given the privilege to return to the NHL." This is "virgin territory for the league, and taking careful, considered steps is understandable." However, after nearly a year, it is "time to set a standard" (SI.com, 8/24).
