The parties couldn’t be in better hands,” said Stanford law professor William Gould, a former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board who has known Cohen since they were young NLRB lawyers in the 1960s. “This is a guy who brings an awful lot in terms of knowledge and temperament to the table.”
Whereas the MLS resolution was a few paragraphs buried in the sports page, the NFL saga is the biggest sports story of the year, one that threatens to derail pro football for the first time since the players’ strike in 1987. Even Obama weighed in on the issue when asked about it last week.
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