...on condition of anonymity because the payment was not announced.Smith was hired in March 2009 to replace the late Gene Upshaw.Smith never asked about the bonus, the person says, but the union's executive committee voted to give it to him...
...said Saturday at a meeting of the NFLPA Retired Players Organization. Smith was selected in March to succeed the late Gene Upshaw . He is trying to get the retiree groups behind the union in negotiations to extend the contract that expires after...
...chief In Wailea, Hawaii, player representatives from each of the 32 NFL teams began voting on a successor to the late Gene Upshaw as executive director of the NFL Players Association. The four finalists to lead the union into a critical new era...
...power to change - rulings made by the commissioner. Cornwell, one of four finalists in the running to replace the late Gene Upshaw as the NFL Players Association's executive director, described the league's current disciplinary policy as being...
...to change -- rulings made by the commissioner. Cornwell, one of four finalists in the running to replace the late Gene Upshaw as the NFL Players Association's executive director, described the league's disciplinary policy as being "draconian...
...the latest twist in what's been a divisive and unpredictable search process to determine who will replace the late Gene Upshaw . Former NFLPA presidents Trace Armstrong and Troy Vincent , and Washington, D.C.-based attorney DeMaurice Smith...
...Former players union presidents Troy Vincent and Trace Armstrong and lawyer DeMaurice Smith are the finalists to succeed Gene Upshaw as executive director of the NFL Players Association. The three were chosen from five semifinalists by the union's...
...concert hall of the Kennedy Center in Washington to celebrate the life of Hall of Fame lineman and longtime NFL union head Gene Upshaw . Upshaw died Aug. 20 of pancreatic cancer, which had been diagnosed only days earlier. LIONS: Signed former Benglas...
...with a knee injury that may not be as severe. There's also a whiff of the warrior code in the death last week of Gene Upshaw, a Hall of Fame guard and union leader whose pancreatic cancer wasn't diagnosed until three days before his died...
...hours at league headquarters. NO COMMENT: Troy Vincent declined to discuss whether he's interested in succeeding Gene Upshaw in leading the NFL Players' Association because he is still mourning the union's executive director's death...
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