Bargaining session Wednesday
Representatives of the NFL's franchise owners and players' union are scheduled to meet Wednesday in New York.
The two sides resume their negotiations on a possible extension of their labor deal, which now expires after the 2010 season. This season is the final one in the current agreement with a salary cap.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFL Players Association, are scheduled to participate in Wednesday's meeting, according to the Associated Press.
Smith said recently that he's prepared to bargain on "meatier" issues with the parties so far having failed to exchange proposals on the central economic issue of the negotiations, the division of league revenues between the owners and players.
Smith also said he proposed that if there's no agreement by mid-January, the two sides should agree to five days of concentrated meetings aimed to produce a deal. The owners did not accept that proposal, Smith said.
League officials have said they're committed to meeting as often as necessary to reach an agreement.
Goodell and Smith have seen plenty of each other recently. Both participated in two Congressional hearings within a week, one last week regarding the rate and severity of brain injuries being suffered by players and another Tuesday on the case in which court decisions have prevented the NFL from enforcing its four-game suspensions of two Minnesota Vikings players who tested positive last year for a banned substance.
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Mark Maske
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November 4, 2009; 10:47 AM ET
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