NFL lockout

Sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Nando di Fino explains the latest in the NFL lockout story after a federal appeals court sided with NFL owners and delayed an injunction that would have stopped the lockout. The owners and players will go back to court on June 3 to try to come to terms […]

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson has ordered an end to the ongoing NFL lockout. This is being seen as giving the players an early victory in their fight with the owners over how to divide the $9 billion business.   Judge Nelson says she was swayed by the players’ argument that that the lockout, now […]

The NFL and the Players Association begin court-ordered mediation today in the hopes of reaching an agreement between the two groups. The NFL claimed that it was better to try to mediate the situation before the players’ union dissolved. But why was the mediation court-ordered, and what does it hope to accomplish? Wall Street Journal […]

Negotiations between NFL owners and its player’s union were granted a 24-hour extension yesterday, avoiding the first work stoppage since 1987. When asked if he would arbitrate in any way, President Obama scoffed, saying “My working assumption at a time when people are having to cut back, compromise and worry about making the mortgage and […]