Donald Fehr

Negotiations between the NHL and the players association resumed Thursday at the league’s Manhattan offices following lengthy talks that went past midnight EST and involved a federal mediator for the third time. Although it was widely assumed...

NEW YORK -- It isn’t known what progress -- if any -- has been made in the second day of marathon talks in the NHL labor dispute, but owners and players surely sense that time is working against them.   Negotiations resumed Wednesday and stretched...

Sitting in a hockey locker room, Steve Chase became the latest die-hard fan fed up with the NHL lockout.  Living in Los Angeles, Chase believed the league had squandered all the goodwill built in the area after the Kings won the Stanley Cup. His...

The latest round of NHL labor talks ended with the two sides in different rooms from each other.  The players’ association and league negotiators met separately Wednesday with federal mediators in suburban New Jersey, holding discussions that...

NEW YORK -- Instead of closing in on a deal, the NHL and the players’ association are further apart than ever before.   Union executive director Donald Fehr began the first of his two news conferences Thursday night by proclaiming he believed...

TORONTO -- NHL labor negotiations will resume today, with mediators rejoining the talks at an undisclosed location in an effort to save the hockey season.   The Canadian Press on Tuesday reported the restart of bargaining between the league and union,...

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-...

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...