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NHL lockout threatens entire hockey season
The National Hockey League season was supposed to be in full swing by now. Instead, like the NFL in 2011 and the NBA last season, the NHL is mired in ...
Jets' Tebow reveals he has 2 broken ribs
Tim Tebow stood on the sideline with a cap on and his hands in his pockets as Jets fans chanted his name. They wanted to see the backup quarterback ...
Locked-out Lundqvist finally finds game to play
Henrik Lundqvist finally found a game to play. It won't be under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden, or in front of a hostile crowd in ...
No, thanks: NHL lockout talks break off again
Jaymes Hall had a question for NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman about the lockout, which already has wiped out more than a quarter of the regular season: ...
NHL lockout talks break off again with frustration
NHL labor talks broke off soon after they resumed Wednesday, with players maintaining their new proposal was a huge economic concession and ...
NHL labor talks to resume Wednesday morning
NHL owners and union officials are negotiating again at league headquarters Wednesday, the 67th day of the lockout. The two sides are trying to work ...
Beckham mum on plans after leaving MLS, Galaxy
David Beckham will announce the next stop in his soccer career near the end of the year. Until then, he's focusing on winning one more trophy with the ...
Column: Still a lot to be thankful for in sports
The bad stuff is easy. You read about it almost every day; hear it discussed endlessly by the talking heads on radio and television. But if sports is ...
NHL labor talks resume for 1st time in 8 days
If the first bargaining session in eight days between the NHL and the players' association made any headway, neither side tipped its hand. A large ...
NHL labor talks set to resume Monday
So much for a two-week break. Just over a week since the last set of failed negotiations, the NHL and the locked-out players' association will return ...
Conversations restart; NHL negotiations on hold
The conversations have restarted in the ongoing NHL labor fight. The negotiations have not. One step at a time in the roller-coaster ride that holds ...
NHL, union might try not talking in search of deal
If the NHL and the players' association have run out of things to talk about, how can they ever find a way to make a deal to save the hockey season? ...
NHL suggests 2-week break from negotiations
Negotiations had already hit a wall in the ongoing hockey labor fight, and now the NHL has suggested the sides take an official two-week break before ...
Even phone calls stop between NHL and union
Now the NHL and the locked-out players' association aren't even talking by phone. With the lockout about to enter its third month, communications ...
David Stern estimates NBA revenue up 20 pct to $5B
NBA Commissioner David Stern estimates revenue will be a record $5 billion in the current season, an increase of about 20 percent from the league's ...
Long Islanders fume over utility's storm response
Priscilla Niemiera has a message for officials at the Long Island Power Authority. "I'd tell them, get off your rear end and do your job," the ...
Sundin, Sakic, Oates and Bure enter hockey Hall
There is something missing from Joe Sakic's new plaque at the Hockey Hall of Fame — and it's not because the printer made a mistake. Among the list ...
NHLPA leader: Deal can be quick after breakthrough
A new NHL labor deal might not be as far off as it seems. Steve Fehr, special counsel to the NHL Players' Association, believes the collective ...
No progress made in new round of NHL labor talks
As quickly as NHL labor negotiations got going again, they came to a screeching halt. Now there is no telling when the league and the players will ...
NHL, union meet for small, informal lunch
NHL labor talks took a break Saturday — an old-fashioned lunch break. Instead of returning to the negotiating table for a fifth straight day, ...
NHL, union to meet Friday for 4th straight day
The best that can be said about the ongoing NHL labor negotiations is that they are still going, and will continue for at least a fourth straight day.
NHL, union holding labor talks a 3rd straight day
The NHL and the players' association resume negotiations Thursday afternoon, the third straight day the sides are meeting in an effort to end the ...
NHL labor talks to resume Thursday
Negotiations between the NHL and the locked-out players' association ended after nearly six hours Wednesday. Just as they did a night earlier, the ...