With the NFL Lockout well underway, current players are turning their attentions to other areas to find things to do. Washington Redskins quarterback and former college basketball player Donovan McNabb will serve as an in-studio college basketball analyst for Comcast […]
Author: Mike Lederer
Placido Polanco suffers elbow injury
Philadelphia Phillies 3rd baseman Placido Polanco left Tuesday’s Spring Training game in the bottom of the 2nd inning after hyperextending his left elbow. A Phillies media relations representative said the injury is not related to the November surgery Polanco had […]
Flyers D Pronger out 3-4 weeks with hand injury
Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger is scheduled to undergo surgery on his right hand Tuesday, and is expected to miss three to four weeks. Pronger, 36, has missed the Flyers’ last three games because of an injury to his hand, […]
NFL Lockout: Preliminary Injunction, April 6
We’ve got our next date to circle on the NFL labor calendar. The preliminary injunction hearing to possibly lift the NFL lockout is scheduled for April 6 before Judge Susan Nelson. As Daniel Kaplan of the Sports Business Journal notes, […]
NFLPA to boycott draft?
The NFL Players Association is putting into place a plan that would prevent each top college prospect from attending next month’s draft in New York, according to multiple league sources. The NFLPA already has contacted 17 top prospects that ordinarily […]
NFL Lockout
We officially have a work stoppage in the National Football League. After the players association decertified on Friday afternoon, the owners have officially locked out the players as of midnight on Friday. It is the NFL’s first work stoppage since […]
NFLPA Decertifies
We are well on our way to a work stoppage for the National Football League. At 5pm on Friday afternoon the NFL players’ association announced that they have decertified as a union in Federal court in Minneapolis. This means that […]
Brewers P Zack Greinke out with rib injury
Milwaukee Brewers ace Zack Greinke will miss the start of the 2011 season due to a rib injury. Greinke injured himself while playing in a game of pickup basketball. He fell after going for a rebound and bruised one rib […]
Nuggets & George Karl agree to contract extension
George Karl and the Denver Nuggets have agreed to terms on a new contract extension. ESPN’s Chris Broussard was the first to report the news. The extension is for three seasons with a team option for a fourth year. Karl, […]
Mets Beltran out with knee tendinitis
New York Mets right fielder Carlos Beltran will be shut down due to tendinitis in his left knee. Beltran had major surgery on his right knee in January of 2010 and missed much of last season. The 33-year old outfielder […]