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		<title>Evan Weiner: Junior Seau&#8217;s death? Another football statistic?</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2012/05/evan-weiner-junior-seaus-death-another-football-statistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:39:22 +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 . Wednesday, 2 May 2011 . BY EVAN WEINER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY . I didn&#8217;t know Junior Seau although I met him on the day he was drafted into the National Football League in 1990 and probably interviewed him after a football [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bounties, Lawsuits and More for the Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=11425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As big a deal as the League and Commissioner Goodell made of the Saints&#8217; bounty program, you&#8217;d think it was something that no one ever knew about over the years and years that it&#8217;s been going on at all levels of the game. This story&#8217;s been in the headlines for the past couple of week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Questions We&#8217;ll be Asking at Our Next IFV Conference</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2012/03/10-questions-at-the-ifv-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Pear</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=11402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t signed up to attend our Second Annual Independent Football Veterans Conference this April 20 &#8211; 22 in Las Vegas, you may want to book your plane tickets and rooms this week while the rates are still low. Sign up for our Conference and reserve your room by clicking HERE. This year, we&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Cornwell&#8217;s Letter to Agents about DeMaurice Smith</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2012/01/david-cornwells-letter-to-agents-about-demaurice-smith/</link>
		<comments>http://davepear.com/blog/2012/01/david-cornwells-letter-to-agents-about-demaurice-smith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, a story made its way across the sports networks about an 11-page letter from attorney and player/agent advisor David Cornwell criticizing NFLPA Executive Director&#8217;s performance in general and his handling of the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in particular. Interestingly, one of the first posts about this memo actually came from the NFL. . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NFL Alumni&#8217;s Ron George Responds to FOX Sports</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2012/01/nfl-alumnis-ron-george-responds-to-fox-sports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: A copy of NFL Alumni COO Ron George&#8217;s Memo to Chapter Presidents arrived in our Inboxes this morning. Here it is in its entirety: . From: Ronald George Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 To: Chapter Presidents Cc: George Martin; Joe Pisarcik; Randy Minniear Subject: FoxSports Article . . Dear Chapter Presidents, . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patsy Lewis: Where&#8217;s the R-E-S-P-E-C-T?</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2012/01/patsy-lewis-wheres-the-r-e-s-p-e-c-t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=11194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 13, 2012, I called the NFLPA office to inquire about the Legacy benefit. I was instructed to call Cynthia Timpson at the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle office to discuss the matter. My late husband was a pre-93 player, and from my understanding the 2012 CBA agreement states, “All players who vested under the Bert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Stuff You Can&#8217;t Make Up</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/12/more-stuff-you-cant-make-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve got some news and thoughts that have come in from two of the retirees out there and felt it would be best to share it with everyone here in one post. . This past year, Larry Kaminski has been going through the California Workers Compensation process to gain access to his disability benefits. . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Apparently DICC Can&#8217;t Read Either&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/09/and-apparently-dicc-cant-read-either/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: We just received an update from disability attorney John Hogan on another of his recent disability applications on behalf of another retired football player. He also included a copy of the Disability Board&#8217;s short 3-page boilerplate ruling. . Attached is a recent decision I received from the Bell/Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan&#8217;s Disability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Weekend Reading Sept 23rd</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/09/some-weekend-reading-sept-23rd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 06:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some reading material for your weekend. We have a recent newsletter from Hausfeld LLP and Zelle Hofmann that provides an update on much of what&#8217;s been happening with the retired players&#8217; lawsuit as well as recent information and links of interest to football players and fans alike regarding concussions. They also provide some straight-forward analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spencer Kopf: United We Win, Divided We Lose!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . Over the past four and a half decades I have witnessed many, many, many, many acts of injustice, chicanery and dishonesty. Some of these acts occurred on the fields and arenas in sport (as a player, teammate and coach), some in the halls of justice, some in the media and press and others [...]]]></description>
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