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		<title>Smith Shares Vision For Current and Former NFL Players at Super Bowl Press Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NFLPA held their Super bowl press conference today and made announcements of particular interest to retired players of the National Football League.  NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith was joined on stage by many current and former players including NFLPA President Kevin Mawae and Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders.  Early in the press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2010/02/04/smith-shares-vision-for-current-and-former-nfl-players-at-super-bowl-press-conference/</link>
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		<title>Update on Former Bengal Reggie Williams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati Enquirer recently updated the health condition of former Bengals&#8217; linebacker Reggie Williams.  Seven months ago Williams was fighting to save his right leg that had been ravaged by football injuries and infection. Doctors feared that an extensive bone infection and a surgical wound that refused to heal would force them to amputate Williams&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/05/28/update-on-former-bengal-reggie-williams/</link>
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		<title>New NFLPA Executive Director: &#8220;Union Has a Fiduciary Duty to Retired Players&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newly elected NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith spoke with reporters in New York today and said the union has a fiduciary duty to retired players, which is in stark contrast to comments from his predecessor Gene Upshaw, who famously said he only represented active players while collecting union dues from retired players.
This should be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/04/24/new-nflpa-executive-director-union-has-a-fiduciary-duty-to-retired-players/</link>
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		<title>NFLPA Elects New Executive Director</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NFLPA has elected a new executive director.  After presentations by Trace Armstrong, David Cornwell, DeMaurice Smith, and Troy Vincent on Saturday, NFLPA player representatives had question-and-answer sessions with the candidates on Sunday.  Hillard Heintze Strategic Security Advisors performed background checks on the candidates and reported the results to the player reps.  Following the question-and-answer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/03/15/nflpa-elects-new-executive-director/</link>
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		<title>Player Reps Should Initiate New Search Process This Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend the NFLPA&#8217;s Board of Player Representatives will hold their annual meeting in Maui.  Obviously, the biggest task at hand for the player reps is electing a new NFLPA Executive Director.  The 32 reps are set to vote for the Gene Upshaw’s replacement after hearing one hour presentations from each candidate and then meeting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/03/12/player-reps-should-initiate-new-search-process-this-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Former Player Examines How NFL Player Reps Are Elected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former player Ross Tucker, who played six years in the NFL, is now a writer for SportsIllustrated.com.  In his latest article, Tucker examines the flawed method of how the NFL&#8217;s 32 player representatives are elected.  The player reps are the only people who have a vote in choosing the NFLPA&#8217;s next Executive Director.   According [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/03/11/former-player-examines-how-nfl-player-reps-are-elected/</link>
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		<title>NFL Retired Players&#8217; Class Action Appeal Could Take Years to Resolve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Kaplan of the SportsBusiness Journal reports that the appeal of the retired players $28.1 million dollar verdict against the NFLPA could take years to resolve.  The lawsuit stems from the NFLPA&#8217;s group licensing program for NFL retirees.  Ron Katz, the attorney who represented 2,062 former NFL players in the lawsuit, said a decision on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/03/11/nfl-retired-players-class-action-appeal-could-take-years-to-resolve/</link>
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		<title>Is the NFLPA Retired Players Department Relevant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current state of the NFLPA Retired Players Department has left many retirees looking for representation elsewhere.  In recent years the membership of many chapters of the NFL Retired Players Association has dropped dramatically. Less than 175 of the NFL&#8217;s 13,000 retirees attended the NFLPA Retired Players Convention in Puerto Rico in 2008.   This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/03/05/is-the-nflpa-retired-players-department-relevant/</link>
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		<title>Another Executive Director Candidate Emerges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Football Post reports attorney David Cornwell, who was once eliminated as a candidate for the NFLPA Executive Director position, is now back in the race.  Cornwell received the written endorsement of at least three members of the NFLPA&#8217;s Board of Representatives.  Section 4.04 of the NFLPA Constitution allows any number of candidates to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/03/04/559/</link>
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		<title>The NFL Players Association Fifty Years Ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The blog of former Oakland Raider Dave Pear recently published the minutes of an NFL Players Association meeting from January 24, 1958.  The meeting minutes show that ten players were in attendance along with players association attorney Creighton Miller.  Miller was working for the Cleveland Browns when two Browns players approached him about helping form [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retiredplayers.org/2009/02/26/the-nfl-players-association-fifty-years-ago/</link>
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