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NBC Sports
17 hours ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Second round is current battleground for fully-guaranteed contracts
The collusion grievance, which found that the NFL/Management Council encouraged teams to violate the CBA, flowed from an effort to limit the spread of fully-guaranteed contracts. And there's an ongoing effort to limit the spread of fully-guaranteed contracts. The vast majority of all 2025 draft picks have signed their four-year rookie deals. In round two, 30 of the selections have yet to sign. The problem is that, for the first time ever, a second-round pick has gotten a fully-guaranteed contract. It started with Texans receiver Jayden Higgins, the second pick in round two. That sparked a fully-guaranteed contract for Browns linebacker Carson Schwesinger, the first pick in the second round. For the next 30 picks, nothing has happened. Obviously, the players and their agents want as many of the deals as possible to be fully guaranteed. The teams want to draw the line as close to the third pick in round two (Seahawks safety Nick Emmanwori) as possible. There's no colluding to be done, since the common goal of limited guaranteed deals is obvious. Still, it's the current battleground when it comes to whether the full four years of a contract will be guaranteed. None of the players will take something less than a fully-guaranteed deal below Emmanwori, because they don't want to be responsible for ending the run of fully-guaranteed deals. And every team will want to be the one that successfully held the rope and won the full-guarantee tug-o-war. Eventually, someone will have to blink. It'll probably start later in the round, with players who wouldn't expect to get a full guarantee anyway. And then it could work its way up the ladder. At some point, a player is going to insist on a fully-guaranteed deal and the team is going to insist on not fully guaranteeing the deal and there will be no middle ground. In a roundabout way, the mere existence of this problem proves that collusion, if it's happening, is far from universal. The Texans created the predicament by becoming the first team to give a fully-guaranteed contract to a second-round pick. If all 32 teams were in cahoots on a plan to limit fully-guaranteed contracts, the Texans never would have done that. However it plays out from here, one thing is clear. There won't be any emails or other written communications encouraging the teams to resist giving players fully-guaranteed deals. Documents like that nearly created a major problem for the NFL. It would still be a major problem, if the NFLPA had any inclination to capitalize on the leverage they've secured.
NBC Sports
4 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Why did the NFL and NFLPA hide the collusion ruling?
From the moment System Arbitrator Christopher Droney signed the bottom of a 61-page written decision in the landmark collusion case, both the NFL and the NFL Players Association kept it secret. The secret was finally exposed today, thanks to Pablo Torre. The next question becomes why both sides zipped their lips over Droney's decision? Torre and I delved into the subject during the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out. Although the NFL ultimately won, the NFL had every reason to keep the decision quiet. The case proved that the NFL tried to get its teams to collude. From the decision: 'There is little question that the NFL Management Council, with the blessing of the Commissioner, encouraged the 32 NFL Clubs to reduce guarantees in veterans' contracts at the March 2022 annual owners' meeting.' The NFL avoided what could have been multi-billion-dollar liability (more on that later) because Droney accepted the self-serving testimony of no fewer than eight owners that they didn't heed the Management Council's encouragement to collude. The document nevertheless includes more than enough evidence, in our view, on which a finding of actual collusion could have been based. The best metaphor (or at least the best one my relaxed brain can come up with) is this: The league was caught with its hand in the cookie jar and with crumbs on its shirt. But because Droney didn't actually see the league eating the cookies, he accepted as truthful their claim that they did not. Keeping it secret had another benefit, which also will be discussed later. By hiding it for more than five months, the NFL may have prevented other potential victims of collusion (starting with quarterbacks who since 2023 have not received fully-guaranteed contracts) from pursuing a grievance of their own. The far bigger question is why would the NFL Players Association not trumpet this ruling? The union should have been shouting it from the rooftops. They've finally proved that which had been suspected for years — that the quarterly meetings are (as former NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith calls them) 'collusion meetings.' The details are unprecedented, and the takeaway is unmistakable. With the Deshaun Watson contract lighting the fire for fully-guaranteed contracts, the league needed to put it out. Quickly. And the league (through the Management Council, with the blessing of the Commissioner) grabbed a hose and started spraying. Even though Droney ultimately failed to connect the dots and/or apply common sense (in my opinion), the union proved that the league WANTED the teams to collude. That's a massive finding. One reason to keep it secret deals with internal union politics. New executive director Lloyd Howell is viewed as a business person who can secure gains through negotiation, not litigation. Smith, who filed the collusion grievance, was the wartime consigliere. With a ruling that tends to prove Smith's approach works, Howell has no reason to do a victory lap with the fruits of Smith's brainchild. That's just a theory. And if it's accurate, it's a mistake. It doesn't serve the interests of the players. And it may have slammed the door on the ability of other players to parlay this partial (but significant) victory into a case of their own. The other potential explanation comes from the fact that former NFLPA president J.C. Tretter criticized in text messages then-Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson for failing to parlay the Watson contract into a fully-guaranteed contract of his own. The decision refers to Tretter's criticism of Wilson. As best Torre and I could determine, Tretter at a minimum referred to Wilson as a 'wuss.' Tretter also said this, I was told: 'Instead of being the guy that made guaranteed contracts the norm, he's the guy that ruined it for everyone.' As Torre has reported, the union kept the ruling quiet in part to protect Tretter. If the former union president and current NFLPA chief strategy officer has designs on becoming the executive director after Howell (and some think he does), it does not help Tretter's cause to have been caught making pejorative remarks about a member of the union. Of course, that cat is now out of the bag. And one of the big questions going forward is whether and to what extent the union's failure to use the collusion ruling as a sword against the NFL will have practical consequences for current NFLPA leadership.
Time of India
19-05-2025
- General
- Time of India
3-day Vidarbha Water Conference from June 7
1 2 Nagpur: The National Service Scheme of Nagpur University and Jankalyankari Samiti Nagpur will be jointly organizing Vidarbha Water Conference from June 7-9 at Vanamati Auditorium. The poster unveiling of the conference was done by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Acting vice-chancellor Madhavi Khode Chaware, governor-nominated Management Council member Samay Bansod, Academic Council members Vijay Ilorkar and Shubhangi Nakshine were present during the poster unveiling. The Vidarbha Water Conference will feature a Drinking Water Conference on June 7. A panel discussion on "challenges and solutions for drinking water in Vidarbha" will be held on the inaugural day. Research papers by students and water researchers will also be presented. Agricultural Water Conference will be held on June 8, starting with a panel discussion on "current situation, problems, and solutions for agricultural water in Vidarbha". The second panel discussion on the same topic will be held along with a presentation of success stories of water management in Vidarbha. A screening and competition of reels created by students on "water issues and solutions in Vidarbha" will also be held. Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like [Click Here] 2025 Best Luxury Hotel Prices Expertinspector Learn More Undo The Industrial Water Conference is scheduled for June 9 and will involve a panel discussion on "water issues, challenges, and solutions in the industrial sector", followed by a second panel discussion. The awards ceremony and closing event will be held later in the day. The advisory committee for the Vidarbha Water Conference includes Khode Chaware, VC of Gondwana University Prashant Bokare, Panjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University, Akola, VC Sharad Gadakh, VC of Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur, Nitin Patil, VC of Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Atul Vaidya, executive director of Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation, Rajesh Sontakke, director of CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur, S Venkata Mohan, deputy director of Agriculture Nagpur Division Umesh Ghatge, director of National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nitin Patil, and deputy director of Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency, Dr Chandrakant Bhoyar.
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Chairmen appointed to new committee that focuses on Wyoming's billion-dollar gambling industry
CHEYENNE — Wyoming's billion-dollar gambling industry will be the sole focus of a new select committee created by legislative leadership this year, given the 'heavy lift' of the complex issue. 'The issue is, there's no home committee for gaming,' said Sen. John Kolb, R-Rock Springs, one of the co-chairmen for the new Select Committee on Gaming. 'It's been kind of the unwanted child, getting passed from committee to committee.' Last year, the Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee took the first stab at investigating gambling in Wyoming. The JAC created a special working group devoted to exploring this topic and paid for a statewide comprehensive study of the gambling industry. By the end of the interim, five committee-sponsored bills related to gambling were filed for the 2025 legislative session. One of these bills focused on allowing local governments to have a say in approving historic horse racing machines, and another would have allowed national betting on Wyoming live horse races. However, a majority of these bills failed at the beginning of the session, and none made it to the finish line. This year, the Management Council created the new select committee that will be entirely dedicated to studying gambling issues in Wyoming. There are six members on the committee, three from the House of Representatives and three from the Senate. No meetings have been scheduled yet, however. Rep. Jayme Lien, R-Casper, and Kolb are the co-chairpersons of the committee. Kolb told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle he'd like to focus on local governmental control to issue gambling licenses and unifying revenue from the gaming industry to make it more equitable. 'There's a lot of issues with how the formulations have been constructed over the years, for lack of a better word, how this activity's been taxed,' Kolb said. 'It's certainly not uniform across the board, with different types of gaming activities.' He elaborated that gambling revenue is 'complex' and 'not some one-size-fits-all situation.' The gaming-related bill that made it farthest through the legislative session was House Bill 85, 'Local approval for simulcasting.' This bill would have given city and town governments the authority to approve or deny simulcast permits, a power that is currently reserved at the county level. HB 85 made it all the way through the House before dying in the Senate president's drawer. Before the creation of the new committee was announced earlier this month at a Management Council meeting, the Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources listed gambling and lottery issues as one of its priorities for the interim. Both chairmen told the WTE the committee will likely focus on lottery issues during the interim, but will hand over gambling to the new select committee. Co-chair Sen. Bill Landen, R-Casper, said the committee will review the modernization of the lottery and look at safety and security for retailers. Co-chair Rep. Andrew Byron, R-Jackson, said he appreciated that there's a new select committee to take on the heavy lift of gambling issues, especially after legislative leadership reduced the number of committee meeting days from six to four this interim. Byron hosted an educational meeting at 6 o'clock one morning during the session and invited lawmakers to attend to learbn more about the gambling industry. The meeting was led by Wyoming Gaming Commission Executive Director Nick Larramendy. 'If anything, it made me realize that … it needs its own standing committee,' Byron said. 'It's become such a huge industry. … It's the Wild West right now as it relates to what's happening in Wyoming.'
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Chairmen appointed to new committee that focuses on Wyoming's billion-dollar gaming industry
CHEYENNE — Wyoming's billion-dollar gambling industry will be the sole focus of a new select committee created by legislative leadership this year, given the 'heavy lift' of the complex issue. 'The issue is, there's no home committee for gaming,' said Sen. John Kolb, R-Rock Springs, one of the co-chairmen for the new Select Committee on Gaming. 'It's been kind of the unwanted child, getting passed from committee to committee.' Last year, the Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee took the first stab at investigating gambling in Wyoming. The JAC created a special working group devoted to exploring this topic and paid for a statewide comprehensive study of the gambling industry. By the end of the interim, five committee-sponsored bills related to gambling were filed for the 2025 legislative session. One of these bills focused on allowing local governments to have a say in approving historic horse racing machines, and another would have allowed national betting on Wyoming live horse races. However, a majority of these bills failed at the beginning of the session, and none made it to the finish line. This year, the Management Council created the new select committee that will be entirely dedicated to studying gambling issues in Wyoming. There are six members on the committee, three from the House of Representatives and three from the Senate. No meetings have been scheduled yet, however. Rep. Jayme Lien, R-Casper, and Kolb are the co-chairpersons of the committee. Kolb told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle he'd like to focus on local governmental control to issue gambling licenses and unifying revenue from the gaming industry to make it more equitable. 'There's a lot of issues with how the formulations have been constructed over the years, for lack of a better word, how this activity's been taxed,' Kolb said. 'It's certainly not uniform across the board, with different types of gaming activities.' He elaborated that gambling revenue is 'complex' and 'not some one-size-fits-all situation.' The gaming-related bill that made it farthest through the legislative session was House Bill 85, 'Local approval for simulcasting.' This bill would have given city and town governments the authority to approve or deny simulcast permits, a power that is currently reserved at the county level. HB 85 made it all the way through the House before dying in the Senate president's drawer. Before the creation of the new committee was announced earlier this month at a Management Council meeting, the Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources listed gambling and lottery issues as one of its priorities for the interim. Both chairmen told the WTE the committee will likely focus on lottery issues during the interim, but will hand over gambling to the new select committee. Co-chair Sen. Bill Landen, R-Casper, said the committee will review the modernization of the lottery and look at safety and security for retailers. Co-chair Rep. Andrew Byron, R-Jackson, said he appreciated that there's a new select committee to take on the heavy lift of gambling issues, especially after legislative leadership reduced the number of committee meeting days from six to four this interim. Byron hosted an educational meeting at 6 o'clock one morning during the session and invited lawmakers to attend to learbn more about the gambling industry. The meeting was led by Wyoming Gaming Commission Executive Director Nick Larramendy. 'If anything, it made me realize that … it needs its own standing committee,' Byron said. 'It's become such a huge industry. … It's the Wild West right now as it relates to what's happening in Wyoming.'
