Category: NFL Labor dispute
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
There is really no dancing around the subject. Even the NFL players mired in the lockout know that the fact that the stay was granted earlier this week doesn't bode well for them. But they aren't giving up hope, at least according to Houston Texans offensive lineman Eric Winston.
Winston admits ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
While the top of the NFL labor dispute and lockout has seemingly been on just about every person's mind, let alone every player's, Chris Cooley isn't too concerned about it. The Washington Redskins tight end says he's keeping up with matters just enough so that he doesn't sound like an ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
While the NFL owners and brass have made the players out to be the bad guys who forced the lockout, the players have spent the past few weeks trying to turn the blame around. Count New England Patriots' Matt Light as the latest in that camp.
In the following interview, Light ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
For the most part, all the talks surrounding the labor negotiations have been a hodgepodge of he said this and he said that. It's been pretty impossible to try and figure out who is telling the truth, how much of it each person is telling and to pick a side ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
"Act like you've been there before." That's always the go-to line when somebody provides an entertaining and/or excessive celebration in sports. However, it begs the question: Where exactly is there? Is it football's highest level, the NFL? Is it the highest level of the NFL, the Super Bowl? Is it ...
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
Matt Birk's argument is hardly brand new. It's just not a fix to the current NFL labor unrest that seems to be discussed very much. It probably should be.
One of the seemingly many sticking points during the negotiations -- or currently non-negotiations -- is the owners' desire for an 18-game ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
Was there every really a doubt that Marshall Faulk was going to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer? Probably not, but that didn't stop Faulk from trying to quell folks around him from calling him a future Hall of Famer and it didn't stop him from feeling the pregame jitters ...
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
Now that the Super Bowl has been played and the season is now officially over, you can bet that, very quickly, all of the public focus will now shift completely to the NFL labor dispute. The two sides have less than a month now to complete an agreement as the ...
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
The biggest Super Bowl winner might not be the Green Bay Packers or the Pittsburgh Steelers. OK, yeah, one of them will be the winner of the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the day on Sunday.
However, with the strange, cold weather in Texas, there will be plenty of other ...
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
There were certainly more talented rookies during the NFL season last year, but perhaps none were more surprising than Cleveland quarterback Colt McCoy.
After drafting McCoy in the third round of the NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns basically said they were going to play him, instead, letting him learn under the ...
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