League memo snubs proposal by players
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A confidential eight-page memo sent from the NHL to its 30 member clubs indicates the league and its players&#39; union remain far apart with negotiations scheduled to resume today.
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Any hope of salvaging part of the NHL season likely was shattered last night when talks between the league and the players' association broke off in New York after four hours following the NHL's presentation of a proposal that contained a salary cap.
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The NHL intends to reject the Players&#39; Association&#39;s latest proposal and counter with one &quot;consistent with our mandate,&quot; NHL executive vice president Bill Daly wrote in a Dec. 12 memorandum to all 30 member clubs.
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The proposed three-team, 10-player trade that would send five-time Cy Young Award winner Randy Johnson from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Yankees still hadn&#39;t been submitted
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There just might be some hope for the hockey season. While the NHL Players Association has been denying it is not currently preparing a new proposal designed to at least reopen talks with the league, the rumor won't go away.
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The NFL sent a memo to all its teams reminding them about the league&#39;s commitment to security following last week&#39;s brawl at an NBA game.
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NEW YORK  The league and the players association moved no closer to a collective-bargaining agreement during a five-hour meeting yesterday. In fact, the sides even took a bit of a detour.
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The National Hockey League rejected an  offer from the players in the latest round of labor  negotiations Thursday, leaving little hope of avoiding a  lockout start to the season next month.
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Major League Baseball on Wednesday rejected as &quot;wholly unacceptable&quot; a stadium financing plan approved the day before by the Washington City Council, throwing into grave
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N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern said Tuesday that the league made a mistake by not closely consulting with players about the new ball introduced this season.
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The National Hockey League rejected an 11th-hour proposal by the league's Players Association.
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National Basketball Association officials dimmed the hopes of a group bidding for ownership of the Memphis Grizzlies, saying that some aspects of their proposal would violate league rules.
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As much as the Red Sox try to control the flow of information these days -- Theo Epstein's contract status is a private matter, discussing a player's injury status is a violation of federal law, trade talks are off-limits, and No. 1 draft choices come to terms when the team says they've come to terms -- there's nothing the Sox ...
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Players have rejected a new bid by management to end a three-month lockout, increasing fears the National Hockey League could lose an entire season to a labour dispute for the first time.
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Hopes of saving the National Hockey League season all but vanished Tuesday when players and team owners rejected proposals to end the labor dispute.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread on Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.