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6 Nov 2013, 3:36 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
The version of the “Sense of the Council to Rename the Washington National Football League Team Resolution of 2013” approved by the council was worded less strongly than the original, which called the team name “insulting and debasing. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 9:38 pm
In Los Angeles Superior Court, 75 ex-pro football players have filed a lawsuit against the National Football League accusing it of concealing the concussion risks that come with playing the game. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 3:32 am by lpbncontracts
In March the National Football League Owners (NFL) elected to lockout the players organized through the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) as the parties could not agree on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 10:56 am by Neil Burns
  The post Why Are National Football League Players Declaring Bankruptcy At High Rates? [read post]
18 Nov 2006, 8:51 am
Interesting article in yesterday's New York Times relating the history of the Ivy League's decision to drop out of I-A football and the desire of some athletic administrators to return. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 8:03 am by Jack Hill
It seems like every week a different retired football player from the National Football League publically reveals their private struggles with post-football related health issues, and particularly those attributable to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 6:00 am by Michael Kaplen
The Scientific American has made available a podcast of a discussion—between National Football League (NFL) Hall of Famer Harry Carson, former NBC anchor Stone Philips, and pathologist Bennet Omalu—about chronic traumatic encephalopathy among football players. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 6:26 pm
The National Football League and Riddell are once again the defendants in more civil lawsuits filed by former professional football players blaming them for their brain injuries. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 3:33 pm by J. Gordon Hylton
  In addition to the National Football League, there was the All-America Football Conference. [read post]
21 May 2015, 11:45 am
Eighth Circuit upholds National Football League's settlement of class action resolving litigation surrounding NFL Films' use of former NFL players' likenesses and identities: You can access today's ruling of a three-judge panel of the U.S. [read post]
8 Jan 2013, 7:22 am by David Orentlicher
As the National Football League (NFL) finally has come to take seriously the problem of concussion, litigation by many former players will focus on the question whether the league acted unreasonably in not taking action sooner.In reviewing the response of NFL to concussion, one can easily think that the league was too slow to worry about the medical consequences of head trauma. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 3:10 am
Mark Cuban's Shareslueth speculative venture has not exactly been going gangbusters, so his announcement last week of a new professional football league to compete with the National Football League probably does not have the NFL owners quaking in their very well-heeled boots. [read post]
30 Jul 2011, 4:11 am by rreeves
Football players prone to brain injuries The National Football League and a helmet manufacturer are named in a brain injury lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles Court by former football players, who claim that the League concealed the long-term health effects of football player brain injury. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 11:14 am
The assumption of the risk doctrine applies to a range of physical activities from children playing catch to little league teams, school athletic activities, and professional sports activities. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 6:50 pm
Third Circuit decides National Football League "Voice of God" dispute: You can access today's ruling of the U.S. [read post]
20 Aug 2015, 3:09 pm by Gail Cecchettini Whaley
Initially, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found that Northwestern University football players who received college scholarships were “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and entitled to try and form a union. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 11:15 pm
While Americans all over the country are increasingly changing their attitudes about legalization of marijuana and are now willing to support the initiative, the National Football League (NFL) clearly seems trapped in the ways of the past/ The league has just suspended Martavis Bryant, the Pittsburgh Steeler's young star, for one full year due to two missed drug tests. [read post]