He was named most valuable player at the 2009-10 CBA All-Star game and has more than 150, 000 followers on Sina Weibo, a Chinese Twitter-like microblogging site.
Even though football has returned to the playing field post-CBA, minor tremors of courtroom football linger.
To review, the now-expiring CBA was supposed to expire on March 3. 2013.
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In my personal opinion, the CBA was not well-drafted in this respect.
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That's because the CBA offered no opt-out provisions: Players who signed with their teams would be contractually obligated to play for a full season, which extends into March.
According to the recently-expired CBA, if the NFLPA waited until after the expiration to decertify, they would have to wait six months to institute an antitrust lawsuit (the real reason for decertifying).
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As written here before, revenue sharing was the focus of the 2006 NFL Owners meeting that ratified the now-expired CBA. Former NFLPA chief Gene Upshaw had demanded that the Owners come up with a workable plan, diverting their attention from the Player deal which slid through by a 30-2 ratification vote.
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As mentioned previously, the lack of an in-season IR list was something that I thought the NFLPA missed out on in the recent CBA negotiation, as the all-or-nothing nature of IR will continue.
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The decision would most likely result in just two pre-season games, although the owners have the power under the current CBA to keep the present four and switch to an 18-game regular season.
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So why have the owners thus far cancelled 422 regular season games of the 2012-13 season, as well as the All-Star Game, insisting on a new CBA that drastically reduces the amount of money that can be spent on player salaries (currently 57% of hockey-related revenue)?
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We have 10-years of a new CBA to live through before the subject might surface.
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The bright outlook and new CBA is not only raising the values of big-market teams, but the small fry as well.
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When it was pointed out after the hearing that around 300 players in the suit played when there was no CBA, including all players before 1968 and between 1988-1993, Mr. Clement acknowledged that they were the toughest cases in the suit but stressed the league's "unprecedented" benefits for retired players.
Since the opt-out, the pace of negotiations towards a new CBA has been sporadic and inconsistent.
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When the new CBA went down I wrote how NBA commissioner David Stern had slam-dunked Hunter because of the favorable terms Stern had gotten for the owners.
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But the new CBA, with greater revenue sharing and stricter luxury tax penalties for high-spending clubs, will level the playing field even more for those markets which are less affluent.
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The league ruled that the contract circumvented the salary cap and the CBA was amended to limit further abuse, but the rash of front-loaded deals approved in prior years still remain.
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"The NBA lockout now comes to an end, so does A Lian's performance in the CBA, " said a statement posted on the team's official Twitter-like microblog.
Six months before their opt-out deadline, the NFL owners voted unanimously to end the current CBA two years early, meaning 2008 and 2009 were played with a Cap and the last season, this 2010 we are in, was to be played without one.
"With no NBA games on TV, there is a level attention on CBA games and the lives of CBA players that has never been seen before, " said Matt Beyer, a Beijing-based sports management consultant.
Having governed the CBA since its inception with the Reggie White settlement in 1993, Doty has been extremely player-friendly in his rulings.
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