Tom Brady, Peyton Manning File Antitrust Lawsuits Against League

Tom Brady, Peyton Manning File Antitrust Lawsuits Against League
WASHINGTON — NFL labor talks broke down just hours before the latest contract extension expired Friday. The union decertified, and players including Tom Brady and Peyton Manning sued the league, putting the country’s most popular sport on a path to its first work stoppage since 1987. Despite 16 days of negotiations with a federal mediator — and previous months of stop-and-start bargaining …
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Lockout, decertification leave NFL in limbo
All along, the NFL said it was certain the players’ union would decertify and head to court. All along, the union insisted the league’s owners were planning to lock out the players.
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Chris Mannix: Wallace trade saps life out of ‘Cats
When Paul Silas took over as the Bobcats’ head coach in December, he inherited a 9-19 team with a broken point guard (D.J. Augustin), a surly shooting guard (Stephen Jackson) and a roster of players who had chafed under the heavy-handed coaching of Larry Brown. Undaunted, Silas installed a more up-tempo offense, empowered Augustin and rebuilt the confidence of role players like Gerald Henderson …
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