Demaurice Smith

We have a proposed NFL deal and re-opening of football, although labor pains have not ceased. Pending approval by the Players, let's take a look at some of the key terms, with instant analysis of deal points that may be in place for the next decade.

The NFL Players Association's executive committee reviewed only portions of a proposed deal to end the lockout and not enough to warrant a vote Tuesda...

With core issues resolved between NFL players and owners, this is the time for horse-trading of what's left on the table, meaning an opportunity for concessions to be made and an opportunity for emotions to run high yet again.

With the NFL and NFLPA on the verge of reaching an agreement, do you think that new agreement will include an end to the blackout rule? ...Yeah, me neither.

MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL commissioner and the boss of the league's locked-out players stood together this week and addressed the league's rookies, ...

The two parties have recognized that economic harm is ahead for both sides and are back to working on the issues after three months of courtroom football. Conceptually, they are more aligned than they were in March. The devil, of course, is in the details.

While in theory the players have the stronger argument in Brady v. NFL, in reality they can't wait. Time has been and will continue to be on the owners' side.

-- Even as his players are claiming a modest victory, if that, after Judge Susan Richard Nelson granted a preliminary injunction blocking the league'...

Mediation part two begins in earnest today as the key player in the NFL in 2011, Judge Susan Nelson, has ordered such talks to occur.

The biggest hurdle the NFL owners and players faced in their recent negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement was a failure to establish a "meeting of the minds." Why not dispense with the lawyers and hash it out face-to-face?

Now that the NFLPA and the NFL have had their annual meetings to vent about the other side and their tactics, we are at the same place we were when talks broke off on March 11th.

The NFL labor negotiations lacked any sense of trust or personal relationship. They left both sides feeling that this was never really a negotiation at all. And the sneering from both sides continues.

WASHINGTON — Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the country's most popular sport in limbo Friday by ...

The owners want the players to share their risk of operating their professional football franchises. The players want the owners to reduce the health and safety risk associated with playing a violent game.

It has now come down to this week in the two-year attempt to extend NFL players' Collective Bargaining Agreement, which expires Thursday at midnight.

If you were seated at the negotiating table with the NFL and NFLPA, what would you want to see included in a new Collective Bargaining Agreement?

As mediation meetings between the NFL and the NFLPA enter their sixth straight day, there is a growing sense of optimism that the gloom and doom surrounding these negotiations may be delayed or even averted.

Why should the NFL-NFLPA negotiations be behind closed doors if fans have such a massive stake in the future of the NFL as well?

Both sides in the NFL labor dispute are fighting for the hearts and minds of fans, but fans are starting to clamor for more conversation and less positioning and lawyering.

With so many questions about what will be "the story" in the NFL after next week's Super Bowl, here are a few answers.

The executive director of the National Football League players union said a player lockout next season is a "near certainty," and that it would cost t...

In the present Collective Bargaining Agreement there is the stated right of the NFL to expand the regular season. Commissioner Goodell, however, is smart to not unilaterally impose this kind of extension.

The dominant story in football in the coming months will be the potential for the "no football in 2011", a season washed out by NFL owners locking out NFL players from playing games.

Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross spoke out for the logic of extending the current 16-game season to 18 games. NFL Players Association President DeMaurice Smith wasted no time striking back at Ross.

If no official action is taken regarding the improper concussion management that was displayed during the Packers vs. Eagles game, oversight from an outside body must be implemented.