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De Smith says the NFL is the "first league in the history of sports that has ever sued to not play their game," which, like a lot of slogans, isn't entirely accurate (the NFL hasn't sued), even if it accurately conveys the sense that the NFL is taking great pains to get its lockout. Mike Florio has some thoughts about this, and his analysis leads me to wonder: Would Florio or Gunga Peter or any of the rest of the Serious Football Media ever write anything so blithely, head-pattingly condescending as this about Roger Goodell's rhetoric? More »
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Your morning roundup for March 16, the day we lost frequent Em and Dre collaborator Nate Dogg. More »
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NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said last night that his members aren't interested in, and won't negotiate about, expanding the regular NFL season by two games a year. Here's what he told SI.com: More »
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Florio has a pretty good rundown of the NFL's coming labor apocalypse, but there's one point he makes that I really hope doesn't catch on, even though you can be sure it will. More »
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was called to the national principal's office today to explain to senile Congresspeople why football isn't the deadliest game in town. We had some trouble following the testimony because this terrible headache. More »
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DeMaurice Smith, the rookie executive director of what's left of the NFLPA, is dropping some serious oratory on his constituents these days, name-checking Hamlet, Nicolas Sarkozy, Napoleon, Iran and Young Jeezy, all in one speech. He's the realest! More »
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