Share this: The NFL Players Association filed a grievance against the NFL on Monday, and it doesn’t look too good for the league. The NFLPA is alleging the NFL violated the collective bargaining agreement by knowing teams were improperly dispensing painkillers to players but failing to do anything about it. The grievance states “the NFL and clubs have ‘disregarded … explicit CBA requirements as they apply to the proper, legal, medically ethical prescription, dispensing, and transportation of prescription painkillers.’” The Players Association says it warned the NFL about these violations — which range from not informing players about the risks of mixing pills to overprescribing them — in April, and the league didn’t respond in a timely manner. The grievance came after it
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Did Robbie Savage buy seven pairs of trainers at once?
… and make a small child carry them all? Sheer brilliance from BBC Radio 5 Live’s always-good-for-a-laugh phone-in show 606 last Saturday. During a debate on the selfishness of the modern footballer, Derby County’s Robbie Savage fields a call from a punter who SWEARS he saw him purchasing a haul of trainers on Wilmslow High Street.