The Associated Press The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussion , saying that is not an adequate solution.

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...meeting with Stern soon NBA players' association director Billy Hunter plans another negotiating session soon with commissioner David Stern , and here's something that might come up. The union says total player compensation will fall this...

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...for the second straight year by the slimmest of margins. "Where do we go from here? It's pretty awesome," Giants general manager Brian Sabean said. "Obviously, a momentous day. Pretty amazing, but that's what defines Timmy." In one of...

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...19:26 PST -- As Tim Lincecum walked from interview to interview on his Cy Young celebrity walk, Brian Sabean kept asking to anyone who approached him , "How do you quantify this?" He meant other than "two," the number of consecutive National...

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Checketts on the Rams , Murray and other takes 1. Blues chairman Dave Checketts was a guest on my 101 ESPN radio show and again expressed support for Blues coach Andy Murray , who is under fire from some fans and media. " Andy hasn't changed...

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...season ended and his agent did not return a call Wednesday. It has been suggested that the failure of former general manager J.P. Ricciardi to work out a Halladay trade in July would mean a colossal downgrade in what the Blue Jays could...

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...more. So there could be some wiggle room to pursue free agents, something that new Padres general manager Jed Hoyer's predecessor, Kevin Towers , didn't always have such a luxury of. A year ago, Towers signed veterans Cliff Floyd ,...

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...scored a goal against the Columbus Crew late in the second half of an Oct. 31 game at Rio Tinto Stadium. In 2006, David Beckham and Dave Checketts shoveled dirt next to each other at a groundbreaking ceremony in Sandy, Utah , for a Real...

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If CEO Jeff Moorad were satisfied with the status quo, he would not have swallowed a year of Kevin Towers' seven-figure salary. Based on his lawyerly evasion yesterday, Moorad 's interest in Dick Enberg can probably be classified as...

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...fines Titans owner $250,000 for gesture The NFL flags and fines players for excessive celebration on the field. Commissioner Roger Goodell just sent a very clear message that the league's owners aren't above those same rules. The NFL...

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...the most charismatic sports figure of 2009. Manny Pacquiao has the kind of crossover star quality that David Stern , Bud Selig and Roger Goodell long to find in their leagues. When Alex Rodriguez turned up in baseball, the game (and his...

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NEW YORK (AP) Don Nelson planned to be retired now, not running what he calls "a very difficult team to coach so far." Seems it's still getting harder. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Nelson stormed out of practice Thursday...

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...by having Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet Jr. , right, crash deliberately so that team ... LONDON -- Former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore accused Formula One's governing body on Friday of secret negotiations before a "sham hearing" at...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here ' Max Mosley was out for revenge', says Flavio Briatore Flavio Briatore , the disgraced former Renault team principal, will claim that Max Mosley was "blinded by an excessive desire for...

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...situation last summer was one of the primary factors in the firing of former general manager J.P. Ricciardi , who made it clear he did not want to deal the ace within the division. Alex Anthopoulos appears willing to move Halladay to an...

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...detail and thoroughness. " That mid-September meeting in San Diego was the first hosted by Moorad in his search for the successor to Kevin Towers as the Padres' general manager. It might as well have been his last. Each succeeding candidate...

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