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• in Football
  Can the NFL Keep Control of the Bounty Scandal?
  Scary possibilities for 'perfect storm' if bounty issue goes to court
  by ramseyposton / on Mar 13, 2012
• in Football
  The 2011 NFL Season is On!
  The NFL season is on and the NFL lockout that started in March is soon to be off.
  by stephengfm / on Jul 25, 2011
• in Football
  NFLPA Casts First Vote to Save Season on Monday
  If this doesn't happen, then the fans of the NFL will all sing ”na na na na hey hey hey goodbye” to the 2011 NFL season.
  by stephengfm / on Jul 24, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nflpa”

 

• Evan Weiner: NFL Job Audition Includes Making “Suicide Squad” Rather than Special Teams Squad

  
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  Posted with the express consent of Evan Weiner: . . THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTS . BY EVAN WEINER COMMENTARY . The NFL job audition includes making the “suicide squad” rather than the special teams squad . May 11, 2013 Examiner . The National Football League is open for business again. Players are on [...]
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• IFV 2013: Life Inside the Real NFL Family

  
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  Brain concussions. CTE. Alcohol and drugs. Take these issues that have only recently become more openly discussed along with 101 more ingredients in family life and you have a very complicated recipe for making a family work (or not). Family life isn’t easy at times as it is but when you stir in all these [...]
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• IFV 2013: Pensions, Disability con’d: Latest Updates on Current Cases from John Hogan

  
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  The 10-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is going into its third year. How has it worked out for you and your families? How will some of the most recent disability rulings affect future cases? And just how did that Legacy Fund work out for each of you? John Hogan has been advocating for a total [...]
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• NFLPA Rookie Premiere revealed

  
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  By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Football Editor UPDATE : The NFLPA sent over the official list of rookies attending the event, which is the same list we have below. This list is confirmed by the NFLPA.  The NFL Player Association Rookie Premiere kicks off next week. This is when Topps and Panini America get a ...
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• IFV 2013 NFL Films Part II – Making the Case Against the Settlement: Fred Dryer

  
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  The original lawsuit against NFL Films was filed with Fred Dryer as the original lead plaintiff with Elvin Bethea, Jim Marshall, Joe Senser, Dan Pastorini and Ed White joining him early in the process. Bob Stein and Tom Ward were the original attorneys working with Fred Dryer. Naturally, Bob Stein and Tom Ward are ...
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• IFV 2013 NFL Films Part II – The Case Against the Settlement: Michael Ciresi

  
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  Attorney Michael Ciresi (Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi) is one of the attorneys representing the Original Six Plaintiffs in the Dryer vs NFL Films lawsuit. Ciresi was the attorney who made the case against the Settlement Offer in Minnesota Federal Court while Dan Gustafson made the arguments for the Settlement ...
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• IFV 2013: NFL Films Part I – The Case for the Settlement Ron Mix

  
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  As we were planning our Conference over the last few weeks leading up to this past weekend, we had many discussions on the best way to present both sides of the Settlement Offer to the retired football player community so each one of you can make an informed decision. We finally decided to invite each [...]
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• The Impact Of Agents On Union Solidarity And Collective Bargaining

  
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  For his paper on “The Impact of Agents on Union Solidarity and Collective Bargaining in Major Professional Sports,” Alex Stolls interviewed former NFLPA executive Richard Berthselsen. Last Friday I had the honor of moderating a panel at the 2013 ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries in Miami ...
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• IFV 2013: Workers Compensation and California Bill AB 1309

  
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  We wrapped Friday up with a discussion on Workers Compensation. Workmans Comp may be in for some serious changes shortly with Bill AB 1309 coming up for a vote in the California State capitol later this year. This bill will block professional athletes from filing Workers Compensation claims in the State of California ...
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• IFV 2013: Your Basic Rights 101

  
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  Yakub Hazzard from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi spent over an hour explaining and answering questions about basic visual rights, how they work and what others can – and can’t – do with them. This is the basic primer that neither the NFL nor the NFLPA nor your agent EVER wanted football players to ...
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• IFV 2013: NFL (Alumni) Now Promoting Drug Trials?

  
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  In the past week, we’ve been flooded with a large-scale press campaign from the long-quiet NFL Alumni about a new drug trial that has an incredible range of claims ranging from antidepressant benefits to new brain stem cell generation. The problem we noticed was that this is a completely new drug in its earliest ...
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• IFV 2013: Dr. Bennet Omalu on CTE and Football

  
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  Dr. Bennet Omalu was the first pathologist to uncover the presence of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in the brains of retired football players. It all started when Mike Webster’s body ended up on his examination table in Pittsburgh in 2002. As assistant coroner in Pittsburgh at the time, Dr. Omalu sought ...
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• IFV 2013: Update on NCAA Lawsuits & Eller vs NFLPA

  
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  Retired NFL player and practicing attorney Shawn Stuckey from Zelle Hoffman gave a brief overview of the current litigation against the NCAA as well as a history and update on the Eller vs NFLPA lawsuit. The NCAA suits are both interesting and important to follow as they have relevance to many of the current ongoing ...
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• IFV 2013: Concussion Lawsuit Panel

  
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  We kicked off the first day of our Conference with a great overview of the concussion lawsuits with two of the top attorneys in this litigation: Jason Luckasevic from Goldberg Persky White filed the first lawsuit against the NFL and was also to include Riddell in his filings. One of their two partners in the [...]
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• IFV 2013: Our Panelists and Schedule

  
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  With last-minute itinerary changes and arrivals, we’ve been juggling our Conference schedule to accommodate everything. And we’ve also made some minor additions to our schedule as well in order to cover some very recent events that we believe most of the retired player community will want to hear about. . Here’s ...
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• IFV 2013: A Lot Happens in a Week!

  
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  Wow! A lot has happened in the past week as we’ve been preparing for our upcoming Conference! We’re edging closer to the vote on AB 1309 in California which will disqualify most professional athletes from Workers Compensation claims in the state. (Click HERE to read the actual bill that’s coming up for a vote as ...
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• Conveying A Message Through The Narrative

  
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  On Thursday of NFL Draft week, NFL Players Association Executive Director deMaurice Smith addressed a group of media at Google headquarters in New York, and a few thousand other interested parties via a live stream, on the challenges of the organization. Behind him on a series of screens weren’t images of his ...
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• Sports news of NFLPA Files Grievance against NFLMC for Toradol Waivers

  
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  The Players of the NFL through the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) filed a grievance against NFL Clubs and the NFL Management Council (NFLMC) for allowing team physicians to make “unilateral and unprecedented attempts” to force players to sign waivers as a precondition to team physicians prescribing Toradol. The ...
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• The Chargers Doctor Is A Drunk Quack. Why Havent They Fired Him?

  
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  The California Medical Board believes that David Chao should lose his medical license. Nearly two dozen former patients who have sued him since 1998—alleging in all the medical superfecta of malpractice, personal injury, negligence, and fraud—would agree. Dissenting: the NFL and the San Diego Chargers, for whom ...
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• Nolan Harrison III Speaks…

  
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  . Thus spoke Nolan Harrison III in another one of his “Former Players Newsletters” about meetings and conferences earlier this week in Sacramento about a newly proposed State Bill A.B. 1309. In case you hadn’t heard, Bill 1309 “would exempt minor and major league professional athletes from filing workers comp ...
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