The NFL locked out its players again Friday night after its first legal victory in the fight with the players over the future of the $9 billion business. The players who showed up smiling and relieved to be back at work Friday morning are now cooling their heels.
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The order came only hours after teams opened their doors to players and some of the basic football operations began, and it came as the second round of the draft was under way.
The NFL cleared the way for some of its basic football
operations to begin at 8 a.m. EDT Friday, five days after a federal
judge declared the lockout illegal and nearly seven weeks after it
began.
Snow flakes and Christmas carols did nothing
to cool off the surging Tampa Bay Rays. These boys from the Sunshine State looked right at home at snowy
Target Field.
The clock is ticking down at the Capitol on a potential deal to build a new football stadium for the Minnesota Vikings, including ways to pay for it. Surprisingly, some of the biggest contributors to that effort may be Minnesota Twins fans.
U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson turned down the NFL's request to
put her ruling on hold pending appeals and guaranteeing more limbo
for all 32 teams, thousands of players and millions of fans.
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