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The National Football League will use replacements for its locked-out field officials to open the regular season in the U.S.’s most popular sports league next week.
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Marvin Miller says the National Football League’s union needs to play more offense.
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DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the National Football League players union, speaking in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt” airing this weekend, said a player lockout next season is a “near certainty” and 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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Richard Berthelsen, the lead attorney for the National Football League player’s union, will retire on May 15, his 40th anniversary with the organization.
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Tom Condon , a former National Football League Players Association president and now agent to players such as Peyton Manning , says he supports decertification of the union if it helps reach a fair labor deal.
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Peyton Manning will miss the Indianapolis Colts’ season opener because of a neck injury, the first time he hasn’t started a game since his freshman year at the University of Tennessee in 1994.
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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning underwent additional surgery this morning to stabilize bones in his neck and is out indefinitely, team owner Jim Irsay said in an e-mailed statement.
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