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NFLPA sues NFL claiming collusion in imposing secret salary cap during the 2010 uncapped year, claiming recent punishment of Redskins and Cowboys as evidence; will face procedural issue (Yahoo)

In other courtroom news, former UCLA basketball player Reeves Nelson has filed a $10 million defamation suit against Sports Illustrated for an article that ran a couple of months ago (LA Times)

Sports celebs are founding investors in stealth startup 12Society, as founders not spokesmen (Fortune)

Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid shortlisted for 2020 Olympics following cuts of Doha, Qatar and Baku, Azerbaijan (Bloomberg)

Are the Yankees up for sale and is the asking price in excess of $3 Billion?  (NY Daily News).

Daily News weighs in on potential buyers, including almost all of the groups who lost the Dodgers bidding, plus David Einhorn, who tried to buy a stake in the Mets, Anthony Scaramucci who also was interested in the Mets and Charles Dolan of Cablevision who owns the Knicks and Rangers and is likely Yankee fans worst nightmare (NY Daily News)

Yankees and MLB both deny report (NYT
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English Premier League clubs lost $568 million (£361 million) last year despite $3.6 billion (£2.3 billion); only five clubs made money (Guardian)

A look at NBC's cable plans for the Olympics (Awful Announcing)

Israel looking at Law of Return to get current Major League players to play on Israeli team in World Baseball Classic (Jewish Ideas Daily)

Curt Schilling's video game company, 38 Studios, which received a $75 million loan guarantee from Rhode Island to move its operations there, has laid off its entire staff (NYT)


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