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(Follow-Up) American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League: The Sky Appears To Still Be Intact
[See original post here for background info] Oral arguments were held Wednesday in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League. While we won't have an actual ruling handed down for a while -- I still think this will be a last-day-of-the-term decision if the NFL wins on any but the narrowest...
American Needle v. NFL and the future of professional sports
Picture the following situations: After three years of a top-rated defense Greg Manusky gets interviewed for a head coaching job. He wants to take the job but because of the league's monopoly he can't negotiate a price--he has to accept the slotted amount for a head coach. In two years Patrick...
American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League: Apocalypse Soon?
I don't mean to alarm anyone, but there's a chance -- depending on the whims of a couple septuagenarians -- that much of the NFL world as we know it could come to an end. I'm not talking about the potentially uncapped 2010 season, either. Instead, I'm talking about a United States Supreme Court...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1982
What follows is a brief historical recap of the San Francisco 49ers' 1982 season. Coming off of the team's first ever Super Bowl victory, how would the 49ers respond to their success? What repercussions would an impending player strike have on the season? How would the season affect Bill Walsh's...
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