July 18, 2011
July 18, 2011
by Irvin Muchnick According to reliable reports, National Football League owners and players are very close to a deal that will save the 2011 season. One […]
July 15, 2011
July 15, 2011
On WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death., and Scandal (2007): “Irv Muchnick knows wrestling likes Anna Wintour knows fashion.” Frank Deford author, Sports […]
July 15, 2011
July 15, 2011
Welcome to the new look of my blog, which has been renamed “Concussion Inc.” and transformed into the hub of my web presence. You can get […]
July 11, 2011
July 11, 2011
Retired players’ activist Dave Pear’s blog has an informative timeline of the Carl Eller lawsuit and efforts to get a seat at the table in the […]
July 10, 2011
July 10, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Gwen Knapp today has a good analysis of the pro football labor talks headlined “For NFL, retiree care is the tougher […]
July 8, 2011
July 8, 2011
National Football League training camps are shuttered this month, pending resolution of the owners’ lockout of players. But for clinicians at the University of Pittsburgh Medical […]
July 7, 2011
July 7, 2011
John Mackey, the Hall of Fame tight end for the old Baltimore Colts and later a National Football League Players Association pioneer, has died at age […]
July 5, 2011
July 5, 2011
Look, gentle readers, I don’t believe the Connecticut Labor Department’s audit of World Wrestling Entertainment independent contractor misclassification practices is more urgent than public employee union […]
July 5, 2011
July 5, 2011
In my June 26 post, “View the Dissident NFL Retirees’ Washington Press Conference at Dave Pear’s Blog,” http://wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/view-the-dissident-nfl-retirees%E2%80%99-washington-press-conference-at-dave-pear%E2%80%99s-blog/, I promised a shout-out to the active players […]