6 Empire-Tribune Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Serving the Cross Timbers area since 1871
Youth 7-on-7 Football Running
Locals run for a good
Sixth graders win in Springtown cause in Make A Wish
A team of sixth grade boys from Stephenville won first place in a recent 7-on-7 football tournament in Springtown. Team
5K hosted by Tarleton
members include (left to right) Aaron Abila, Aaron Wooten, Kaegan Williams, Rhett Dittfurth, Raegan Wood, Braden Perry, The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee at Tarleton
Cade Lemons and Seth Heupel. State hosted a 5K Fun Run Saturday with proceeds
Contributed benefiting the Make A Wish Foundation. Daniel Grice
(left), 10, came in ninth overall and second in the 18U
boys division, while Kyle Long, 10, was in 18th over-
all including third in the 18U boys class.
Pro Football Contributed
Pro players’ unions want NFL lockout lifted
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The unions Also Friday, a nonprofit group that The group of players suing the HS Sports
for hockey, baseball and basketball are has been fighting sport work stoppages league, including star quarterbacks Tom
siding with the players in the NFL lock- filed a brief saying the lockout should Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew
out court battle, saying the league's be lifted. The Sports Fans Coalition, Brees, have said the lockout is inflicting
lockout should be lifted.
The players associations for MLB, the
which says it gives fans a voice on pub-
lic policy issues and fights for fan
irreparable harm on their brief playing
careers by preventing them from work-
Coming Wednesday
NHL and the NBA filed a brief Friday access to games, said the lockout is not ing out at team headquarters, holding
with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of in the best interest of fans, who pay bil- full practices with teammates and Hico High School hosted its
Appeals, saying the case presents "vital- lions of dollars to see their teams per- coaches and jeopardizing games.
ly important issues" for the unions and form. The longer the fight over how to annual athletic banquet Monday
their members. The players' associations The NFL players also have a federal divvy up $9 billion in annual revenue night. Who were the highest-
say professional athletes' careers are antitrust lawsuit against the league drags on, the closer the league and play-
short, and the loss of even part of a sea- pending before Nelson. The main issues ers get to missing games. The first pre- honored individuals and teams?
son causes personal and professional in the antitrust case need to be resolved, season game is Aug. 7, with the regular
injures that can't be compensated. but the legality of the lockout is the season opener between the Saints and Find out when Sports Editor
That reiterates the NFL players' argu- fight for now. Packers set for Sept. 8 in Green Bay, Brad Keith publishes photos and
ment that the lockout is causing them The NFL has argued in its appeal that Wis.
irreparable harm — the players can't lifting the labor lockout without a new When it comes to the overall antitrust more in the Wednesday edition
work out, or sign contracts with any of contract in place would allow better-off lawsuit, attorneys for the players filed
the 32 clubs while the lockout persists. teams to sign the best players, tipping documents in U.S. District Court on of the Empire-Tribune.
A federal judge in Minnesota agreed the NFL's competitive balance and dam- Friday, opposing a league request for
and lifted the lockout April 25, but the aging the league. more time to respond to the claim. The
league appealed. The league says the union's move to league has argued it shouldn't have to
The appeals court reversed U.S. decertify after the initial bargaining talks respond to the lawsuit until the appeal
District Judge Susan Richard Nelson's broke down is a sham; that Nelson does over the lockout is resolved.
decision just four days later. And on not have the jurisdiction to lift the lock- But the players say the lawsuit will go
Monday, the appellate court ruled the out; and, that she should have waited for forward whether or not the lockout is
lockout can stay in place until a full a decision from the National Labor lifted and that the NFL's request for an
appeal is heard on whether it is legal. Relations Board before issuing that rul- extension is "yet another deliberate step
Attorneys for the players were expected ing. in their campaign to crush the players
to file briefs later Friday, in advance of The league also said that lifting the by extending the lockout for as long as
an appeals court hearing June 3 in St. lockout with no labor deal in place they can."
Louis. would cause chaos, with teams trying to Also this week, the NFL owners and
In keeping the lockout, the appellate make decisions on signing free agents players finished their latest round of
court said it believes the NFL has and making trades under a set of rules court-ordered mediation behind closed
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