Category: DeMaurice Smith
Monday, January 14th, 2013
Two major incidents took place last weekend in Washington that caught the attention of the NFLPA. The players association, led by executive director DeMaurice Smith, looked into the way in which Robert Griffin III's knee injury was dealt with by the team's coaching and medical staff, as well as the ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
We're on the first page of what appears to be a new chapter in Bounty Gate. That's because the NFLPA has pulled a new club out of the bag in its fight to defend the New Orleans Saints players involved in the scandal, filing papers in federal court last week ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2012
The NFL just wrapped up a third Sunday with replacement officials, and the outrage level certainly hasn't dropped. The league and its officials met on the weekend but reports indicate there are still significant differences between the two parties, which could indicate the replacements won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
The ...
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Thursday, June 7th, 2012
If you thought that DeMaurice Smith's job as Executive Director of the National Football Players Association (NFLPA) would get easier after the players and the owners agreed to a new CBA, think again. There seemingly is always a lawsuit or other controversy surrounding the year round news cycle of ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
DeMaurice Smith might have successfully navigated the NFL Players Union through the three-plus month long lockout this spring and summer, but he's not out of the clear just yet. Smith is now entangled in a new negotiation -- the implementation of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) testing in the NFL. The ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
While some things at times looked bleak when it came to the NFL labor talks, I tip my cap to everyone involved in making sure a new Collective Bargaining Agreement was worked out before any games were lost in the NFL. Right now the league is at the pinnacle of ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Tony Richardson doesn't even know if he's going to be playing next year, but it has nothing to do with the current NFL lockout. Richardson, a free agent fullback who most recently played for the New York Jets, will be a free agent if and when the lockout ends, and ...
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
It's been a fairly angry offseason for New York Giants owner John Mara. First he blasted his team after a disappointing 8-8 finish last season. Then, when players failed to come back with a counter offer on the final day of negotiations in March, instead deciding to decertify, he had ...
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
At this point in time in the ongoing NFL Lockout saga, it's pretty tough to understand or know what's going on or what lies ahead. But one good way to get an idea of where things stand is by simply listening to the rhetoric being used by both sides. On ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Two weeks ago, the NFLPA walked out of CBA negotiations and filed a lawsuit against the league irking the NFL and its owners. The 2011 season and the future of the NFL is in jeopardy but what is unclear at the present time is, how we got to this point, ...
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