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07
Nov
2009
Valerie Thomas: StarCaps, Congress and the CBA

2 days ago by Robert

Valerie Thomas Congressional Oversight: StarCaps – Disciplinary Actions and Arbitration The NFL is trying to get Congress to sanction the CBA-negotiated right to be prosecutor, defense, judge AND jury! Commissioner Roger Goodell advocates “narrow and specific legislation that would confirm the prima ...

Independent Retired ... - footballsummit.com · 2 references

Re-Inventing the Wheel… Over and Over and Over

3 days ago by Robert

It turns out that the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) turned out a very detailed study on MTBI (Mild Traumatic Brain Injury) and it was released to Congress… back in 2003! Their findings are dramatic and conducted with the kind of solid methodology that all valid studies need to follow. In the App ...

Dave Pear's Official Blog - davepear.com/blog · Rank: 97,348 · 45 references

05
Nov
2009
Ex-NFL Players Says League is Ducking Mounting Toll of Head Trauma

4 days ago by fourthandgoaladmin

MCT News Service MINNEAPOLIS – Despite an expanding body of evidence linking brain damage to violent collisions on the football field, Bob Stein can still indulge in a little gallows humor. "The good news," he said, "is that I can’t remember how many concussions I had." The attorney and former Minne ...

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Do us all a favor, baseball, and go back on strike [MLB]

4 days ago by Matt Mitchell

Congrats Yankees fans! I’m really happy you won your 27th championship. You’ve got a great franchise there that has dominated like no other franchise in the world of sport. But then if you hadn’t, you could be called the greatest bust in the history of sport. Because nobody else can field the player ...

Unabashed - mattmitchellfiction.com/unabashed

Nice Rumor-Mongering, Pro Football Talk

4 days ago by Big Blue Monkey 2: The Quickening

Last night, Pro Football Talk reported "rumors" were "flying" about how someone had floated the possibility of the NFL Players striking ahead of next year's capless year and 2011's feared lockout by the owners. Perhaps, the invisible rumor mongers said, the players would illegally strike during the ...

I Dislike Your Favorite Team - idislikeyourfavoriteteam.com · Rank: 32,267 · 39 references

04
Nov
2009
Valerie Thomas: StarCaps, Congress and the CBA

5 days ago by Guest

/h2> Congressional Oversight: StarCaps – Disciplinary Actions and Arbitration AAA The NFL is trying to get Congress to sanction the CBA-negotiated right to be prosecutor, defense, judge AND jury! Commissioner Roger Goodell advocates “narrow and specific legislation that would confirm the primacy of ...

Dave Pear's Official Blog - davepear.com/blog · Rank: 97,348 · 45 references

03
Nov
2009
Those Women Testifying in Congress

6 days ago by Robert

Don’t let anyone fool you. Some of the toughest players in the retirees struggle with the NFL… are the ladies. No one needs to tell football players or their families about pride, determination, intelligence, grit and the heart it takes to engage in battle. Recently in Washington DC, it became openl ...

Dave Pear's Official Blog - davepear.com/blog · Rank: 97,348 · 45 references

30
Oct
2009
The NFL’s Dr. No

10 days ago by Robert

Congresswoman Linda Sanchez took 10 minutes to do a serious beat down of Commissioner Roger Goodell in the Congressional Hearings on brain injuries. You can watch her clip below but first we want to take a moment to introduce the new James Bond Dr. No: Ira Casson (we no longer want to call this idio ...

Dave Pear's Official Blog - davepear.com/blog · Rank: 97,348 · 45 references

Gould, Davis selected as alternate reps to the NFLPA

10 days ago by Brad Biggs

It's a complex time in the NFL when it comes to the labor issues, and Bears players held a union meeting at the end of the day on Thursday where kicker Robbie Gould and wide receiver Rashied Davis were selected as alternate representatives to the NFLPA. Linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer is the team's pl ...

Inside the Bears - blogs.suntimes.com/bears · Rank: 5,073 · 190 references

National Blackballers League exposed

10 days ago by Silence Dogood

DeMaurice Smith is the union official seated at NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's left hand as he testifies before Congress in the video below.Smith took the late Gene Upshaw's place as Executive Director of the NFL Players Association, but he's no political rookie. He worked for the Obama campaign u ...

The Union News. - theunionnews.blogspot.com · Rank: 45,320 · 109 references

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