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		<title>Evan Weiner: Sports Costing Taxpayers Billions</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/03/evan-weiner-sports-costing-taxpayers-billions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Weiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted with the express consent of Evan Weiner: THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTS Sports costing taxpayers billions . Thursday, 10 March 2011 . BY EVAN WEINER . As National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell and his owner team personnel continue bargaining with National Football League Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith to reach a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evan Weiner: Is Dave Duerson’s Death Just Another Football Casualty?</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/03/dave-duersons-death-just-another-football-casualty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Weiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted with the express consent of Evan Weiner: THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTS . Is Dave Duerson’s death just another football casualty? By Evan Weiner February 28, 2011 . As the clock ticks down to the March 3, 11:59 p.m. Eastern National Football League deadline for the players and owners to reach an agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evan Weiner: Labor, the NFL Lockout and American Network TV</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/02/evan-weiner-labor-nfl-lockout-american-network-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Weiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted with the express consent of Evan Weiner: THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTS . Labor, the NFL Lockout and American Network TV By Evan Weiner February 25, 2011 . (New York, N. Y.) &#8212; American television networks such as CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX have been called to task by union officials for not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More of Mr. Smith in Washington</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2010/11/more-of-mr-smith-in-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports analyst, Evan Weiner, wrote a very detailed look at the current NFLPA/NFL situation in the newly-changed post-election landscape in Washington, DC. Should DeMaurice Smith have acted sooner when he had more friends in Congress? Will his efforts now be met with a cold reception with a new House? And why didn&#8217;t he take advantage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Addresses School Concussions</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2010/09/congress-addresses-school-concussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slowly but surely, Congress is getting their heads and hands wrapped around the issue of concussions and their long-term damage. On Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, Congressman George Miller (D-CA) held a House Education and Labor Committee hearing to begin to work out legislation to address the issue of concussions in school athletic programs. Did we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernie Parrish&#8217;s Congressional Testimony</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2010/01/bernie-parrishs-testimony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We finally have Bernie Parrish&#8217;s testimony before  the Congressional Judiciary Committee on concussions which was recently held at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit on January 4, 2010. Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and his staff did an incredible job of organizing this hearing on such short notice just after the new year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernie Parrish: For the Record</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2009/12/bernie-parrish-for-the-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 24 hours, we&#8217;ve certainly had a lot of discussions around the old adage &#8220;Not seeing the forest for the trees.&#8221; In the old way of controlling their spin on all stories about football, the NFL managed to keep all of the television networks and most of the major print media on very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Thomas on StarCaps, Congress and the CBA</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2009/11/valerie-starcaps-congress-cba/</link>
		<comments>http://davepear.com/blog/2009/11/valerie-starcaps-congress-cba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valerie Thomas writes a great analysis on the StarCaps case and how it relates to the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement) and Congress. The NFL and its owners would love to have its powers expanded stealthily by trying to pull a fast one on Congress. We hope someone calls them on it before it happens! AAA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Inventing the Wheel&#8230; Over and Over and Over</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2009/11/re-inventing-the-wheel/</link>
		<comments>http://davepear.com/blog/2009/11/re-inventing-the-wheel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) turned out a very detailed study on MTBI (Mild Traumatic Brain Injury) and it was released to Congress&#8230; back in 2003! Their findings are dramatic and conducted with the kind of solid methodology that all valid studies need to follow. In the Appendix, they even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NFL&#8217;s Dr. No</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2009/10/the-nfls-dr-no/</link>
		<comments>http://davepear.com/blog/2009/10/the-nfls-dr-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Linda Sanchez took 10 minutes to do a serious beat down of Commissioner Roger Goodell in the Congressional Hearings on brain injuries. You can watch her clip below but first we want to take a moment to introduce the new James Bond Dr. No: Ira Casson (we no longer want to call this idiot [...]]]></description>
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