"Basically, they just told us that we laid down. They told us that we threw in the towel, we quit. I don't care who you are, that stings," Kelsay said this week.Not at a place at all yet where guys say they financially are in bad situations, he said. Have a lockout fund. We planned for this years ago.

Pursued our salary cap claim pursuant to the CBA and we respect and will abide by the arbitrator decision to dismiss, the teams said in their statement. Will continue to focus on our football teams and the 2012 season. NFL had asked Burbank, a University of Pennsylvania law professor who is the sport system arbitrator, to dismiss the case because the league and the NFL Players Association agreed to the salary cap reductions.The new owners of the New Jersey Devils are keeping longtime executive Lou Lamoriello in charge of hockey operations, bringing in a new business team and committing to make the threetime Stanley Cup champions an organization looked toward as a mo