Press Box: NHL talks expected to resume Monday
NHL and NHL Players' Association representatives met face-to-face Sunday morning in New York to negotiate a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, NHL.com reported.
The two sides were engaged in conference calls Saturday evening and met in-person about 9:30 a.m. ET Sunday.
The two sides were not expected to meet again Sunday evening, but they do plan to meet again on Monday, ESPN Katie Strang reported. The NHLPA is working on a counter offer, according to several reports.
The league had tabled a new proposal for a 10-year agreement on Thursday. It was the first proposal discussed by the two sides since Dec. 6. They are trying to work out a deal that would salvage an abbreviated 48-game schedule that would start Jan. 19.
All games through Jan. 14 have been cancelled due to the lockout.
Contract length, compliance buyouts, and annual-salary variance are union proposals that the NHL has reportedly been open to agreeing on. Those issues, if agreed on, include a mutual option to reopen after eight years.
The NHL wants contract lengths for players to be capped at six years after previously proposing a five-year maximum term. The league also wants to allow teams to sign their own free agents to a maximum of seven years as long as the player has been under contract with the team for at least one full season.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
---Former North Carolina and Miami head coach Butch Davis will not become the head coach at Florida International, multiple media outlets reported, based on information from Davis' lawyer.
"[Davis] will not be taking the FIU job," Davis' attorney, Jon Sasser, told the Miami Herald.
Davis will remain a special assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
SOCCER
---Frank Lampard scored twice to help Chelsea to a 2-1 win at Everton on Sunday in the English Premier League.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
---Senior center J'mison Morgan has been dismissed from the Baylor basketball team for violating an unspecified university policy, Baylor coach Scott Drew announced.
He redshirted last season and saw action in only one game this season when he scored four points and grabbed three rebounds against Charleston on Nov. 24.
