NFL, Union Agree To 24-Hour Deadline Extension
WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the players’ negotiating team says the union and the NFL have agreed to a 24-hour extension in labor talks. Just hours before the end of the NFL’s collective bargaining...
View ArticleNFL Reinstates Lockout, Effective Immediately
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The NFL lockout is back. The league announced the news late Friday, hours after an appeals court victory. League spokesman Greg Aiello tells The Associated Press that teams...
View ArticleNFL Could Reach Settlement In Next 24 Hours
(AP) — Significant progress on a major sticking point in the NFL labor impasse — soaring rookie salaries — during marathon talks Thursday raised hopes that a tentative agreement in principle could...
View ArticleAP: Players Not Likely To Vote On Thursday To End NFL Lockout
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (CBS/AP) —A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that players are unlikely to vote Thursday on a tentative agreement to end the NFL lockout because they...
View ArticleGoodell Denies Pryor’s Appeal Of 5-Game Suspension
NEW YORK (AP) — Terrelle Pryor’s five-game suspension has been upheld by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The Oakland Raiders rookie quarterback had appealed his suspension, which were related to NCAA...
View ArticleGoodell Likely To Expand NFL To 34 Teams If LA Gets Franchise
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Commissioner Roger Goodell says if the NFL puts a team in Los Angeles, it is probable the league would expand to 34 franchises. Appearing Thursday night on “Costas Live” on NBC...
View ArticleVikings Close To Coming To Los Angeles?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Met With Mayor Villaraigosa New Farmers Field Renderings LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — Minnesota’s latest stadium snag has the NFL publicly questioning the state’s interest in...
View ArticleSaints’ Vilma Sues Roger Goodell For Defamation
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Suspended Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, claiming the league’s top executive made false statements that...
View ArticleRoger Goodell Issues Guidelines For Teams Wanting To Move To L.A.
CBS Sports | Josh Katzowitz LOS ANGELES – Just because we haven’t talked much lately about the NFL possibly moving to Los Angeles, that doesn’t mean commissioner Roger Goodell has forgotten about it....
View ArticleNFL Reaches Agreement With Referees
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL and the referees’ union have reached a tentative contract agreement, ending an impasse that began in June when the league locked out the officials and used replacements instead....
View ArticleGoodell On Kroenke’s New Inglewood Lot: There Are No Plans Of Stadium...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A company tied to St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke has purchased a prime piece of land in the Los Angeles area amid speculation the NFL franchise is considering a return to the city...
View ArticleCBS To Air ‘Thursday Night Football’ For 2014 Season
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The National Football League and CBS announced Wednesday that the network will produce and air Thursday Night Football for the 2014 season. CBS will air eight early season...
View ArticleKeidel: NFL Mansions And Expansions
By Jason Keidel» More Columns After yet another obscenely successful season, the NFL is thumbing through its list of expansions. Forever high on hubris, the sport is pondering extra games, playoff...
View ArticleKeidel: Ray Rice Another Crack In NFL Shield
By Jason Keidel» More Columns Even by the pro athlete’s subterranean standards, the Ray Rice video was shocking. While getting my civil libertarian on, burping bromides about the presumption of...
View ArticleKeidel: Pro Football Meets Johnny Football
By Jason Keidel » More Columns The NFL Draft, pro football’s ultimate red carpet gala, lived up to its hype last night at Radio City Music Hall, in the middle of Manhattan, in America’s media vortex....
View Article5 Places I’d Like To See The NFL Draft
By Adam W. Bloom The NFL just announced that the NFL Draft will not be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City next year. Two great cities – Los Angeles and Chicago – are both in the running and...
View ArticleKeidel: Rice Regrets, The World Forgets
By Jason Keidel » More Columns No matter what Ray Rice said yesterday, it can’t change what he did or the near-universal perception that aristocrats get more chances than we do. But Rice made one...
View ArticleRaiders Owner Has No Plans To Sign Lease Extension With Oakland After 2014...
Take Our Poll LOS ANGELES(CBSLA.com) — Citing little effort by Oakland to renovate the city’s 48-year-old stadium, Raiders owner Mark Davis said he has no plans to sign a lease extension after the...
View ArticleKeidel: Josh Gordon And NFL Policy
By Jason Keidel » More Columns It seems we’ve jumped into the pool of relativism since we got wind of Josh Gordon’s season-long suspension for marijuana use. You have the indignant faction that can’t...
View ArticleTwitter Reacts To Ravens Releasing Ray Rice
by @TaraLipinsky The sports world was turned upside down Monday morning after TMZ leaked the video from inside the elevator the night Ray Rice had a domestic dispute with his now wife Janay Palmer....
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