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NFL and referees agree on a 7-year collective bargaining agreement, avoiding potential work stoppage
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NFL and referees agree on a 7-year collective bargaining agreement, avoiding potential work stoppage

  • By ROB MAADDI - AP Pro Football Writer
  • Updated

The NFL and the NFL Referees Association have agreed on a new seven-year collective bargaining agreement that avoids a potential work stoppage and use of replacement officials. The deal runs through the 2032 NFL season. The league began the onboarding process for replacement officials last month because negotiations weren’t progressing. But they won’t be necessary. A stalemate in 2012 resulted in a 110-day lockout and replacement referees were used.

Kansas City officials are proposing $600M in stadium bonds to keep MLB's Royals in Missouri
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Kansas City officials are proposing $600M in stadium bonds to keep MLB's Royals in Missouri

  • By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press
  • Updated

Kansas City, Missouri, would issue $600 million in bonds for a new stadium for Major League Baseball’s Royals under a proposal officials there are pursuing. Mayor Quinton Lucas and nine of 12 City Council members introduced a proposed ordinance Thursday that would allow the city manager to negotiate with the Royals over a new stadium near the city’s historic Union Station. The plan comes only months after Kansas lured professional football’s Chiefs over the state line with a massive stadium subsidy. The City Council could vote on the ordinance next week. The two teams have used side-by-side stadiums at the Truman Sports Complex since 1973.