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NFLPA: We Can Avoid a Bubble
Although the NFL has been dealing with outbreaks of COVID-19 throughout the season, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) believes that the season can be completed without having...
A Who's Who of Players Reps
Unions in sports have provided a valuable tool for the players. Since the major sports have organized, salaries have gone up and the leagues have invested more in things like safety. Like other union...
NFLPA Wants to Ban Turf Fields
As a rookie learning the ins and outs of being a professional football player, I remember the collective groan that my older teammates made whenever it was announced that we’d be...
Baseball Reaches Deal on Postseason Bubble
The MLB Players Association and the owners have reached an agreement to hold the playoffs in a "bubble" to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to ensure warm weather for the final games of...
Professional Athletes Strike over Police Brutality
A strike is when a worker withholds their labor to address a grievance. Here athletes are not playing. Them playing is their labor. A boycott is when decides not to spend their money or go to an...
Packers Players Speak Out after Jacob Blake Shooting
On Sunday evening Jacob Blake was on an apartment lined street in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was breaking up a fight between two women when police arrived. As Blake walked away from the scene, police...
MLB Players Kneel Against Police Brutality
The baseball season finally kicks off on Thursday, but over the past week teams have been holding exhibition games to get ready for the season. Like other sports, baseball is preparing for protests...
A-Rod: Stupidly Supports a Salary Cap
While negotiations over starting the 2020 baseball season were tense at best, the MLB Players Association is preparing for a new contract battle as their collective bargaining agreement (CBA) expires...
NFL Players Union: No Health Compromise
While cases of COVID-19 are surging the NFL is considering how they can safely start the season. With just a few weeks before training camps begin, both sides sat down to meet with each other on...
NFLPA: No Preseason Games
With just a few weeks before training camp opens, the NFL is still unsure what their preseason schedule will look like. While a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was signed earlier this year...