Industry plans to start grading for potential NFL stadium site
INDUSTRY >> The first real groundwork on a site possibly slated for an NFL stadium may start as early as January, according to city officials.
The city former redevelopment agency agreed to spend $172 million installing the basic infrastructure when it leased the property to developer Ed Roski Jr., the billionaire head of Majestic Realty Co.
that lease, there is an obligation to put in the infrastructure, Radecki said. a certain point, (the developer) will have to decide which direction they want to go. She said he cheap nfl jerseys would like to speak about the stadium project but could not until December.
Roski announced his plans to build a state of the art, $800 million stadium and bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles in 2008, but shovels have not yet penetrated the dirt at the site off Grand Avenue near the interchange of the 60 and 57 freeways.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger even threw his weight behind the project. He came to Industry in late October of 2009 and signed a bill that exempted the development from parts of the state environmental review process.
The dissolution of redevelopment agencies largely contributed to the delay in establishing the infrastructure, according to Radecki.
had to cheap nfl jerseys get a ruling from the Department of Finance that it was an enforceable obligation, he said.
An enforceable obligation means a city must follow through with arrangements entered into by its redevelopment agency before the dissolution. The Department of Finance decided in February that Industry lease agreement with Roski constituted an enforceable obligation, according to its website.
Four years after Schwarzenegger visit, the project finally may get its start, though perhaps not in the way Los Angeles NFL fans have hoped.
The city previously approved two uses for the site, giving it the green light as an NFL stadium and as an industrial commercial center, according to City Engineer John Ballas. The installation of the infrastructure complies with both uses; the grading does not necessarily signal that Los Angeles will get a football team, Ballas stressed.
not aware of any team or arrangement, and we wouldn be because that movement would have to be done relatively quickly, Ballas said. former development agency has an obligation to rough grade the site and install the infrastructure, and that independent of what they choose to build up there.
The first phase of that development, expected to cost $7 million, could start as fake oakleys early as January once the city receives the go ahead from the state Department of Finance, Ballas said.
called rough grading, Ballas said of the first phase. fill in the valleys and you cut the tops off the hills until you have a level top surrounded by slopes. city lease agreement ultimately requires it to perform rough grading and landscaping, as well as establish streets, storm drains, electrical services and water systems.
doing the infrastructure and creating one rough grade site and then turning it over to them, Ballas said.
If Roski chooses to move forward with a stadium or a commercial site it is up to him to make the necessary adjustments to the infrastructure, Ballas said.
The start of work on a stadium would initiate the terms of settlement agreements made with neighboring cities Walnut and Diamond Bar. Diamond Bar would receive a $5 million first payment of an overall $20 million settlement when grading permits are issued specifically for a stadium, according to the agreement.
just sitting back and waiting to see, said Walnut City Manager Rob Wishner.
The NFL remains mum about a return to cheap evening dresses Los Angeles and has not publicly backed Roski project or a rival downtown stadium proposal by the Anschutz Entertainment Group.
A number of teams have been linked with possible moves to Los Angeles, including the San Diego Chargers, the St. Louis Rams and the Oakland Raiders, according to multiple news sources. All three have openings in their contracts that could allow a move. Raiders owner Mark Davis told San Jose Mercury News sports columnist Tim Kawakami In August that Los Angeles was on his mind.
opportunity for us to get a new stadium is always on my mind, he told Kawakami.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said at the Oct. 8 Fall League Meeting that the NFL does want to return to Los Angeles.
The NFL has no preference for a stadium, he said.
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Jerry Jones got an eyeful of how a quarterback should play in primetime and his name wasn’t Tony Romo. The Dallas Cowboys seem on the verge of change. Could they take their cue from Washington with Kirk Cousins?
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The botched snap against the Seattle Seahawks. The interception against the New York Giants. A meltdown in Minnesota. Nobody remembers the freaky scrambles out of sacks or the passing records when it comes to Tony Romo. The NFL can seem a cruel place that way but it’s simply the reality of pro football and sports in general. Romo once again had his team on his back with a division championship in sight and instead threw three cheap jerseys costly interceptions against a defense ranked 28th overall. For all the good things he can do it’s no longer possible to bury the fact that he doesn’t have clutch ability. Sure there are lots of comebacks in his history but none of them involved a playoff atmosphere. His lone playoff victory came against an Eagles team the Cowboys had owned that year twice already. At age 32 his best seasons are gone and with them any hope of Dallas putting out an extended run at a championship. While they can take a few more cracks if they choose, the time may be right for a change.
Robert Griffin III cements job and could give Cousins his NFL break
Any lingering idea of a quarterback controversy for the Washington Redskins disappeared Sunday night. Robert Griffin III solidified his hold on the team and the city by winning them their first division title in thirteen years. He wasn’t pretty with only 100 yards passing but he didn’t turn the ball over and ran for 63 yards and touchdown while watching running back Alfred Morris trample Dallas to the tune of 200 yards and three touchdowns. The performance was exactly what head coach Mike Shanahan and owner Dan Snyder envisioned when they gambled their future on him with a draft day trade. That future may become even bright when the offseason begins again. Not only does Griffin solver their quarterback problems, but thanks to a second gamble on another passer in Kirk Cousins, they may solve their lack of draft pick issues too. In the few times Griffin got hurt during the regular season; Cousins stepped in and played like a poised veteran. His compiled a 2 1 record along with two late game rallies over the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns. His value is peaking at just the right time and likely will get traded to a quarterback needy team once the playoffs conclude. Whether Dallas is one such team depends on what happens with Romo.
The Washington Redskins showed the Dallas Cowboys a new era in the NFL. Robert Griffin III outplayed Tony Romo and may have signaled a need for change. How ironic it might become cheap red bottoms if Griffin teammate Kirk Cousins ushers in that change.

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Many Seahawks fans weren’t particularly pleased when the NFL’s 2014 schedule was released last week. It seemed, to many of the 12th Man, that the Seahawks Cheap Replica Sunglasses weren’t getting the respect they deserved for winning Super Bowl XLVIII.
Seattle has only one prime time home game. The Hawks will have to deal with an early bye week in Week 4. They play two games against the rival 49ers in three weeks. And five out of Seattle’s last six games are cheap nfl jerseys china against tough NFC West foes.
Regardless of the challenges Seattle will face in 2014, the Seahawks don’t have the league’s toughest Paul Millsap Youth Jersey schedule. In fact, there are five teams with tougher schedules in 2014, Kyle Korver Swingman Jerseyaccording to their opponents’ records last season.
Check out the gallery above for a ranking of each NFL team’s strength of schedule in 2014. That’s what happened the last time the Packers came to Seattle, when Russell Wilson and Golden Tate perhaps helped by a questionable call by some replacement officials stole a victory away from Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay. The Pack will look for revenge when they take on the cheap nfl jerseys free shippingHawks in this season opening tilt. That’s what happened the last time the Packers came to Seattle, when Russell Wilson and Golden Tate perhaps helped by a questionable call by some replacement officials stole a victory away from Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay. Matt Hasselbeck (seen here being hit by Bolts safety Rodney Harrison) passed for 449 yards as Seattle rallied from 14 points down in the fourth quarter to beat the Chargers in overtime, 31 28. The last time the two teams met for a regular season game in Seattle was all the way back in 2002, when Rod Smith scored a 14 yard touchdown, and the Seahawks gained just 204 total yards in Denver’s 31 9 wholesale nhl jerseys from china victory.

Rugby could be on a collision course
There’s not trouble at mill. There might be down the track, though. Big trouble the sort that sounds hysterical and fanciful now but in 20 years might be unavoidable. Might be a bit too real.
Rugby has a potential ticking time bomb a generation of professional rugby players and more to come who could be facing debilitating and severe post career health issues related to multiple head knocks.
The latest injury surveillance project out of the English Premiership shows that for the second consecutive year, concussion was the most prevalent injury. There were 54 concussions on match days during the 2012 13 season and another five in training.
The severity is more contentious and harder to measure. Until recently, the weight of medical opinion and limited research in the field has supported the view that there is no accumulative effect in relation to concussion.
There is consensus that playing with concussion is highly dangerous but divided views on whether picking up several head knocks in a career makes an athlete more prone to mental health and related conditions later in life.
In the past few years, the body of evidence has grown to challenge the established view. A successful class action has been mounted in the United wholesale jerseys States by former American footballers against the NFL.
More than 4500 former players have joined Jeff Teague Authentic Jersey the suit among them, some of the biggest stars of the game. Some of the plaintiffs have suffered early on set of dementia, some have Lou Gehrig’s disease, while more tragically there have been suicides of former players, linked to depression caused by repeated concussions.
Rugby hasn’t seen or discovered a similar volume of troubled players, but there have been a few.
Former All Black halfback Steve Devine is one; he was forced to Wholesale Handbags retire at 30 when he couldn’t recover from a concussion, one of about between 30 and 40 he reckons he may have suffered.
His immediate retirement was dogged by severe headaches and lethargy. He struggled to cope with background noise and toughest of all was finding the energy to be the type of father he wanted to be for his young children.
"I have treatment now and if I look after myself, I am 100 per cent," he says. "I have endured an extensive amount of testing and my results are looking as good as they ever were and I’m now a full time professional fire fighter. I’m a very fit, competent individual but as to what my future holds . no one knows.
"I have concerns. There are reports that say it [multiple concussions] will be all good and other reports saying they won’t be good. I’m not sitting around crying about it but all I know is it is too late for me. I don’t get caught up in it," says Devine.
Former All Black halfback Steve Devine was forced to retire at 30 when he couldn’t recover from a concussion.
The battle to prevent it from destroying the game and people’s lives is complex and, Cheap Wholesale Sunglasses at the moment, across two distinct fronts.
Progress has been made and continues to be made on one front; in New Zealand, at the professional level, the management of players with concussion is exemplary. There is robust testing; there is, by and large, no overt or covert pressure applied by coaches to get players back on the field before they’re ready and the seriousness of the condition is respected and duly acknowledged.
It’s not perfect but, hand on heart, New Zealand can say its athletes are among the best managed after they suffer a concussion.
What is becoming increasingly apparent, however, is that when it comes to understanding and researching the possible longer term health implications for those players who suffer repeated concussions, more needs to be done.
While the Rugby Football Union helps fund the annual surveillance report into Premiership injuries, there is no such centralised or co ordinated collection of data in Super Rugby.
Most New Zealand medics linked to Super Rugby sides collect information on squad injuries but that’s mostly a recent practice so there is little cohesive, historic data around head knocks.
AUT has been commissioned by the IRB and New Zealand Rugby Union to study how well the brain connects with the body in retired contact sport athletes compared with those who didn’t play contact sport. But the project has struggled to find enough subjects and may not be able to deliver meaningful results as a consequence.
NZRU medical director Dr Ian Murphy says the difficulty of conducting research is nike nfl jerseys china significant given the variables that may contribute to longer term conditions.
"Is there any other factor that contributes to this [long term effects of concussions]? We don’t know: there might be issues such as binge drinking, or performance enhancing drugs or underlying mental health issues.
"What we would like is a long term, nationwide study where we are able to control a whole set of variables. I think we need a partner for this and we are talking to ACC."
The need to understand more about the possible long term effects is critical.
"Why is the brain different from the other organs? I don’t think it is," says Blues medic Dr Steve Kara. "But we don’t have the evidence where we can firmly stand there and say it [long term damage] definitely happens. We think it happens but we need the research in rugby to be able to definitely say. But look, I think all of us are moving towards the point where we are pretty sure it does have an impact in the future and our management has to be with that in mind knowing that the evidence hasn’t really caught up in rugby yet."
Last year, the first rugby specific evidence emerged. http://www.authentichawksshop.com/Al_Horford_Jersey Glasgow based neuropathologist Dr Willie Stewart revealed that he had found evidence of a former rugby player suffering from early on set dementia.
"We have known that in boxing for instance repeatedly injuring your brain can read to a syndrome, punch drunk syndrome, and you can imagine what that is," Dr Stewart told the BBC. "The pathology of that is better classified as dementia pugilistica and we kind of assumed it was only boxing related and you had to be exposed to a lot of concussive injuries. But what we’re seeing here and in America is that it’s happening in other sports where athletes are exposed to head injury in high levels. Those sports include American football, ice hockey and now I’ve seen a case in a person whose exposure was rugby."
Devine is probably indicative of the prevailing view of players of his generation; he doesn’t hold anyone responsible for his predicament. He is confident the medical advice he was given was the best available at the time. The doctors who treated him acted on what they knew. But despite concussion testing and mandatory education, rugby’s governing bodies can’t leave themselves open to accusations they haven’t been proactive in determining the longer term impacts of head knocks.

The Complete Guide to Understanding the 2011 NFL Lockout
The stage has been set for a battle royal between NFL owners and players. The two sides are pulling no punches legally, politically, and financially against each other. Economic leveraging, legal battles, political round ups, and public awareness campaigns’ are just the tip of the ice burg for what’s to come. Understanding all of it can be very overwhelming and confusing. There are thousand of articles, summary’s, graphs and charts out there, explaining different aspects of the situation, however putting them all together is hard to comprehend. This is the simplest way to understand the NFL Lockout and its economic impact in its simple terms that are easy to understand.
There has been more talk about the perhaps unavoidable lockout than there has been about Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Packers and Steelers . Studies from the NFLPA already show that 30 to 40% of NFL fans have this looming drama on their minds and are going to monitor the situation closely. That number is expected to rise substantially as the deadline closes in. The idea that the NFL may not play a single game in 2011 is freighting to most fans. The lockout will prove disastrous to industry’s world wide. From ticket sellers to video games this clash of the titans could have a very severe financial impact on not just the league and the players, but most importantly the very fans that support it.
Collective bargaining is a process of voluntary negotiations between franchise owners and trade unions , specifically the Players Union NFLPA aimed at reaching agreements which regulate working and contract conditions. Collective agreements usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime , grievance mechanisms and rights to participate in team or NFL affairs. After the agreement is satisfactory to the parties involved they often refer to the result of the negotiation as a collective bargaining agreement (CBA)
The current Collective Bargaining Agreement, initially negotiated in 1993, has been extended on several occasions, most recently in March 2006. The 2006 extension, which could have continued through the 2012 season, gave both the NFL and the NFLPA an option to shorten the deal by one or two years.
The Parties Involved
First you have two sides. The first is the National Football League it self and the owners of the team franchises. The ring leader is NFL commissioner Roger "The Dodger" Goodell. His close shark like business associates and franchise owners Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, Pat Bowlen and Jerry Richardson are the muscle behind the NFL. Those are Goodell’s confidants leading the way to insure that a new collective bargaining agreement or CBA pays them more money and increases the season to 18 games.
The other side of the side is the players, represented by the National Football League Players Association. The NFLPA’s executive director DeMaurice Smith is the ring leader on this side, and fighting with him are players such as Jeff Saturday and Drew Brees, who serve as executive committee members for the players union.
So What Are They Fighting About?
Well that’s the easy part. It all boils down to the root of all evil, money. That being said this Davante Adams Super Bowl XLIX Jersey is where it starts getting confusing. It all started back in 2006 when the owners of the football franchises accepted the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). They feel that that deal is inadequate in today’s economic times. At that time NFLPA’s executive director the late Gene Upshaw, accepted a plan together with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, which benefited the players substantially by giving them 59.6% of the total revenue. Why did he except the plan? Tagliabue was just about done serving his time after 17 years. It’s believed that Tagliabue accepted the deal to keep the labor peace and avoid any kind of work stoppage, such as a players strike.
At the time the leagues top owners such as Jerry Jones, were in the middle of expensive stadium plans. A work stoppage at that point would have packersauthenticofficialshop.com/JOHN_KUHN_SUPER_BOWL_JERSEY.html put a stop to building and stadium improvement plans, and he knew the owners would strongly reject the notion of any kind of work stoppage.
Also in that 2006 CBA deal, the league’s 15 highest earning money machines (Cowboys, Redskins, Patriots ECT.) would have to subsidize the 17 remaining teams that made considerably less money. This is called revenue sharing. The problem is this. Some teams make more then others, and some have very favorable stadium deals, that require less money from the owners for expenditures. On the other side of the coin, you have teams like the Dallas Cowboys, who took out massive loans for new Julius Peppers Super Bowl Jersey and renovated stadiums, thus driving the overhead and expenditures up. This benefits teams like the Cincinnati Bangles because they are making more of a profit, because there overhead and expenditures are concidebly lower.
Some of the lower 17 earning teams keep revenues down intentionally to ensure they’ll receive money from the top teams under the current system. The money they receive from revenue sharing makes them more profitable then some of the top 15 teams.
Team owners in the top 15 like Jerry Jones owner of the Dallas Cowboys want the new CBA to account for the high risk investments, such as forking out hundreds of millions dollars for new stadiums, and other cap expenditures. In simple terms, the team owners that spend the money on new stadiums or improve excising facilities want some of it back.
What The Owners The NFL Want From The Players
As far as the players are concerned the owners are asking for a longer season, and a heavy decrease in pay, which doesn’t stand well with the players. It’s been publicly stated that the cut would be around 18% overall. So how much money are we talking here? Under the current plan, owners receive a credit of around $1 billion for operating and investment expenses of the top of a $9 billion pool of annual revenue. The owners are seeking a $1.4 billion increase or about $2.4 billion total.
This increase is because the franchise owners claim that it compensates them in a more realistic economic era we are in. They claim stadiums were partly or wholly subsidized by tax payer’s years ago which was considered normal at the time. In today’s era, franchise owners are pouring in allot more money for high class stadiums, and state of the art facilities. As a result, they are occurring huge mortgage payments, on top of higher operational costs associated with new stadium operations. The owners who have improved or built new faculties stand fast behind there decisions to building there Tajma Hall’s and mausoleums citing it increases fan base, creates better fan experience which intern creates league growth.
So the players pay decrease would go to the owners pay increase out of the $9 billion pool. The owners stand point is this: They believe the players should account for this risk, because it will increase future revenue, thus paying them more money in the future. The problem is the players are not owners, stock holders or anything of the sort. The players are not a partnership with the franchise or the owner and will not receive any stake in the franchise for the cuts. Further more the players know that the value of the owners and the franchises have increased considerably in the past decade. The players are basically stating that the value of your franchise went up, that creates equity and money. The equity and money does reduce the owners overall financial risk.
What The Players Are Seeking
The players are not seeking any increase at all. They are happy with the current deal. They simply want the same amount of money, for the same amount of games played. At this point the players, the union and the NFLPA want team owners to provide further documentation to support the owner’s basis for the $1.4 Billion increase. They are asking the NFL and the Franchise owners to substantiate their claims and prove that the profits have gone down. The NFLPA has requested the owners to open the books to prove there claims of financial distress or uncertainties. The owners have adamantly refused to do that.
The leagues proposal is suspect according to the NFLPA. They are asking for a dramatic increase in credits right off the top. In the owners proposal they have categories such as "practice facility cost, travel, and professional fees". They feel the owners are asking the players or employee’s to pay for the teams overhead.
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The time is winding down to get something done with both parties. The deadline is March 3rd 2011, when the league year ends, the owners can start the lockout process. On the other side the players could respond by decertifying as a union, and file anti trust http://www.packersauthenticofficialshop.com/RANDALL_COBB_SUPER_BOWL_JERSEY.html lawsuit followed by a strike.
Communication has and will continue to be a problem on both sides. It has been reported that there is improved communications between the players union and the NFL’s managing council, which is important to help speed along any kind of resolution. As for now though, there has been no sizable movement towards the resolve of a new CBA. Its no surprise both sides are playing hard ball.
The NFL players union has discussed a boycott of NFL draft activities including the scouting combine later this month with player agents.
When The Lockout Happens
The franchises will still receive the guaranteed TV revenue; however they can do nothing with players. No OTA’s, no team meetings, no training camp, no free agent signing, no contracts with players, ECT. If the lockout lasts into September, well that will be tragic because there would be no 2011 NFL season to speak off.
The owners are in a better position to withstand a lock out if one should occur financially. The reason is: a lockout would reduce the operating expenses by at least 50 55% (an estimated $4.5 billion) the elimination of player salaries, benefits, temporary layoffs, and salary cuts to various team employees would save them substantially. Thanks to a very lucrative television deal with several broadcasting networks, the owners would still receive the guaranteed money Julius Peppers Super Bowl 49 Jersey as stated above. That kind of cash flow would allow owners to shore up more then 50% of there total revenue in a normal season totally around $4 billion per team. That money would cover operating expenses and overhead through the entire season if needed.
Now that lucrative TV deal for the owners may not be the "insurance policy" they were looking for. Legally speaking the players have the upper hand because in June 2010 the NFLPA filled a legal complaint with the Special Master appointed to resolve CBA disputes. The reason is the NFLPA alleges the NFL structured that deal so the league and teams would receive guaranteed money in the event of a lock out. Because the were promised the guaranteed money the networks, DirecTV, FOX, CBS, and NBC received valuable benefits in 2009 and 2010 in exchange for the guaranteed money clause. T