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NFLPA Investigating Injury Cost of Expanded NFL Season

When you first hear it, the idea is easy to like. Expand the NFL season from 16 games to 18. Take away two of those miserable preseason games. Football is great, so more football must be even better. The NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell back this idea because they know it's going to be a winner with fans and sponsors and...

League, Players at Odds Over Expanded NFL Season

NFL owners decided to use Wednesday's negotiating session with the players union to present their idea for expanding the regular season as early as 2012. We know this because, while the league and the union have been secretive about aspects of prior negotiating sessions, the owners decided to make this aspect of this one...

NFL to Begin Push for Expanded Season

The NFL and its players' union will meet Wednesday in New York for the latest round of collective bargaining negotiations, according to sources close to the situation. And at that meeting the league is expected to present its proposal for a new agreement, which will include plans to expand the regular season from 16 to 18...

NFL Owners Could Expand 'Rooney Rule' to Front Office Hirings

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- One of the issues NFL owners discussed before wrapping up their meetings this morning was expanding the so-called "Rooney Rule" to the hiring of general managers as well as coaches. The rule, established in 2003, currently requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate for vacant head...

NFL Owners Continue to Debate Expanding Regular Season

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Roger Goodell wants to expand the NFL regular season to 17 or 18 games. Team owners, who would presumably profit from such an arrangement, seem to favor it. However, enough issues remain with the plan that Goodell doesn't foresee an owners' vote on it before their meetings conclude at noon...