I wanted to share an update to the retired players with my readers. Bob Grant will be joining us on Monday June 4 to bring us up to date on the issues that face retired players. Please join me in supporting our retired players. It was on their backs and their bodies that the NFL … Read more
To understand why we now have a lockout with a union that has de-certified, we have to first look at the Collective Bargaining Agreement. After a long struggle of bickering back and forth, negotiations came together very quickly over a single weekend. Federal Judge Doty put pressure on the league to accept a revised proposal … Read more
The Big East is a fraud. Despite the pollsters doing their best to get a BE team into the top 25, the league stinks this year. Several teams have crept into the top 25 only to lose and fall back out the next week. The current top team is Syracuse (6-2) who is tied for … Read more
Best comment of the month: From Tena I’m not a baseball fan, but this whole episode stinks to the high heavens. WHY in God’s name is congress (A group of liars if there ever was one) WASTING their valuable time on a baseball player who allegedly lied about taking drugs that may even kill him … Read more
“We’re ready for round 5 in the Goodall vs. Smith fight.” While almost every NFL analysts was projecting a massive spending spree by the league in an uncapped year, nearly 2 years ago I told you that the NFLPA would be crying for the reinstatement of the salary cap floor because teams would use the … Read more
Football The NFL negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the owners and the NFLPA are not going well. The NFL has proposed an 18 game season but the injuries to players this preseason are hurting the chances of the Union accepting the deal. The list of players already on the IR seems to … Read more
Note: We will look at all the divisions of the NFL with this same point of view over the next few issues of Fryingpansports.com. AFC South Texans Was last year the breakout season for QB Matt Schaub or will he go back to being just another guy under center? He had better be up to … Read more
NFL Lions president Tom Lewand was recently charged with DUI. That got him a not so friendly visit with Comm. Goodell this week. While there is no decision yet on punishment for the charge or from the league, the players and NFLPA Ex. Dir. DeMaurice Smith will be watching this case very closely. They will … Read more
Note: Tuesday we will have a projection of the NBA Draft I have some good news and some bad news about a possible CBA. For the first time in 4 months, the NFL management council reps met with DeMaurice Smith and the NFLPA team yesterday. The proposal that the NFL put on the table is … Read more
College football: As the Big 12 sinks slowly in the west and sun pulls away from the shore we say goodbye to another college conference. If you want to know where college football is going–follow the money! Nebraska will sign with the Big 10 Friday. That will allow the league to become the Big 12 … Read more
