profootballtalk.nbcsports.com - 7/1/2009
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Though he has won widespread acclaim for his ability to connect with an audience, trial lawyer-turned-union chief De Smith might have misfired a bit with his lofty, professorial address to the newest crop of NFL players.
sports2debate.com - 7/2/2009
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DEBATE: What is America's sport? ... What is
America's sport? .. Baseball is supposedly America's pastime.. Basketball...
is..? Hockey is..? Football? Give reasons why or why not for each sport..
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DEBATE: What is America's sport?
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... "Although NFLPA Executive Director De Smith chose to talk to the 2009 incoming class of rookies not about the status of the Collective Bargaining Agreement but about Shakespeare and Nicholas Sarkozy, we're told that at least one of the other guys who spoke at the Rookie Symposium addressed the issue of labor unrest. ...
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... I think it's safe to say no sports labor boss has ever talked this way; certainly not Gene Upshaw, a remote and vaguely hostile figure to his own clients. And this shouldn't be regarded as mere fancy-talk, either. Pro Football Talk had a bit of sport with his high-flown cultural references, but Smith's approach here — of connecting football's nettlesome labor issues with larger matters of social justice — is a smart one, and certainly much-needed. Consider the ...
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