NFLPA warning shot best not become direct hit
Cyou fire an effective warning shot four seasons early? If so, how seriously should it be taken? If things go as the Raiders have stated, the NFL team won’t officially relocate to Las Vegas until 2020, no matter what occurs with a lease at the Oakland Coliseum that is set to expire a year earlier.
But any momentum the franchise gains throughout Southern Nevada when it kicks off in its state-of-theart stadium off Russell Road could be seriously hampered if what Demaurice Smith has now suggest- ed is a virtual certainty proves true. Another labor war is brewing. Smith, the executive director of the NFL Players Association, told Sports Illustrated he thinks the league will experience either a lockout or strike when the collective bargaining agreement expires after the 2020 season.
Sure, it’s a long way off — opening week in 2021 seems like forever.
Tom Brady could be wearing nine Super Bowl rings and talking about playing into his 50s by then.
Marshawn Lynch could be living in Scotland full time as a candy vendor.
Bill Belichick could be sitting on the Iron Throne after it’s discovered the Mad King is really alive.
But there is precedent for work stoppage, which has occurred six
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news and we are doing whatever we can as a team, to support him.”
USADA will administer the adjudication of the process, including the testing of the ‘B’ sample, in conjunction with the California State Athletic Commission.
UFC president Dana White disputed a report by TMZ that the organization had stripped Jones of the title he won back by knocking out Cormier on July 29.
“I’m not going to say anything until this whole thing plays out,” said White, who did say if Jones was eventually stripped of the title the belt would go back to Cormier.
“It’s hard to find words to describe how I’m feeling right now,” Cormier, whose only two career losses have come against Jones, said in a statement. “I’m disappointed to hear the news. It’s very emotional. We as athletes are entitled to due process, and I will refrain from saying much more until I know exactly what happened. In my mind, on July 29,