June 13th, 2011 
Matt Loede 
Posted in Daniel Kaplan of the Sports Business Journal reports NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith’s contract is due to expire March 14 2012, according to the organization’s annual report filed recently with the Department of Labor, meaning Smith could be up for re-election of the group not long after the labor strife between the league [...]
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Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Says Meetings a Show of Trying on All Parties
Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune reports NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith gave a sign of two thumbs up as his limousine left Hotel Baker in St. Charles Thursday morning after two days of negotiating with NFL owners. “I’m going to be nice,” Smith said. “No comment.” “We’re not going to make any comments,” NFL commisoner [...]
DeMaurice Smith: Players ‘Resent Being Lied To’ By NFL
DeMaurice Smith, head of the NFL Players Association, is prepared to take the NFL lockout battle to the bitter end. Smith was on the Boomer & Carton show on WFAN in New York “We went to the mattresses the day that we decertified,” Smith said Friday morning. “Not because we wanted to, because they made [...]
NFL Commish Roger Goodell, Union’s Maurice Smith Meet in New York
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and players’ union executive director DeMaurice Smith are meeting in New York. Union spokesman George Atallah said Wednesday’s session is “an effort to advance the bargaining,” rather than a formal negotiating session toward a new labor contract. Goodell said Tuesday at an owners’ meeting that “there’s not enough communication” between the [...]
