Donald Fehr

Nothing about Marvin Miller seemed feisty or controversial at first glance; the soft-spoken economist was a smallish man with gray hair and a tidy mustache. But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s,...

Talking baseball while wondering how Tom Thibodeau is going to survive until Derrick Rose returns: 1. To say that Marvin Miller was as tough as nails is to compliment the strength of nails. Miller has passed away at the age of 95, and somewhere there...

From NHL.com ¿The National Hockey League and National Hockey League Players' Association have jointly agreed to meet with federal mediators to aid the sides in negotiations toward establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.  "We are able to...

Leaders of the NHL and the players association traded barbs instead of labor proposals Friday as the league extended its cancellation of regular-season games through Dec. 14 for a total of 422, or 34.3 percent of the schedule. It also canceled the All-...

As expected, the NHL on Friday canceled another block of games as well as the league's All-Star game, which had been scheduled for Jan. 27 in Columbus, Ohio. Regular-season games were canceled through Dec. 14, bringing the number of games wiped out...

Any optimism that a deal between the NHL and the Players’ Assn. might be imminent following the union’s presentation of a “comprehensive” collective bargaining proposal Wednesday morning lasted only a few hours. That’s...

The NBA season was slipping away as Thanksgiving 2011 approached. The league and the National Basketball Players Assn. were so far apart in labor negotiations that players took the drastic step of dissolving their union by filing a disclaimer of...

NEW YORK -- This time, NHL owners and players are staying apart for just one day.   Negotiations aimed at ended the league’s lockout will resume this morning at the NHL office, the players’ association said in a statement Tuesday. Before...

Representatives of the NHL and the players’ association are scheduled to meet Monday in New York, though they won’t get together before late afternoon or early evening Eastern time. Each side is expected to have large contingents at the...

Drop egos and drop puck Harvey Fialkov Sun Sentinel Absolutely. It's no secret that NHL Players' Association chief Donald Fehr plays hardball. Ask baseball fans about the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. This is the third work stoppage under...

After a second day of marathon talks, the NHL owners and players appeared no closer to a new labor deal on Wednesday and ending a lockout that is threatening to wipe out the entire season. The two sides huddled for nearly five hours at an undisclosed...

Chalk up another NHL game lost to the lockout. Only this time, it wasn't just any contest as the league canceled its in-season signature event Friday when it axed the 2013 Winter Classic that was to be played in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Jan. 1 game...