DeMaurice Smith News
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National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell said preventing head injuries during tackles is the top priority for the U.S.’s most popular sport as the season closes with tomorrow’s title game between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers.
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Almost 80 percent of National Football League players don’t trust their teams’ medical staff, according to a survey by their union.
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U.S. lawmakers said they doubt the leadership of the National Football League Players Association considers human growth hormone a problem and the organization’s “remarkable recalcitrance” has blocked progress toward testing for the drug.
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David Falk, one of the most powerful men in basketball as Michael Jordan’s agent, said superstar players and their representatives have been “irresponsibly apathetic” and deserve blame for their union’s current troubles.
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National Football League players should be able to go back to work now that a judge has blocked the month-old lockout and refused a league request to put the decision on hold, DeMaurice Smith said.
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The National Football League players’ union leader has a message for fans: Enjoy the games now, because there may be none next year.
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Marvin Miller, who transformed the economics of Major League Baseball as the longtime leader of its players union, has died. He was 95.
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The executive director of the NFL Players Association said players want negotiations on a new contract to succeed. At the same time, he said, the players are preparing for owners to lock them out when the current labor deal expires in early March.
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The executive director of the National Football League players union said a player lockout next season is a “near certainty,” and that it would cost the U.S. economy an estimated $5 billion in lost wages, taxes and other revenue if the entire season is canceled.
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National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell and players’ association chief DeMaurice Smith appeared together at a orientation for rookies and said they were working hard to end a lockout that has shuttered the U.S.’s most-popular sport since March.
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