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For the first time, NFL teams can begin signing CFL players still under contract for 1998 the day after the regular season ends.
The NFL has distributed a memo to general managers informing them of that option. The change was agreed upon last spring when the NFL said it would give $3 million to the Canadian league.
Despite its expanded size, Qualcomm Stadium will be below the NFL’s 70,000-seat threshold for next month’s Super Bowl.
The NFL will not sell about 2,700 seats in the first seven rows of the field level, because the view from those seats is partially blocked by team benches, players, coaches and game-day personnel. Another 1,800 seats must be set aside for auxiliary press positions and extra broadcast booths.
Lawyers for the estate of Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke want his widow to provide information about a young acquaintance police once found riding on the hood of her speeding Jaguar.
The request is part of the battle over Cooke’s estimated $825-million estate. Cooke, 84, wrote his wife out of his will 13 weeks before he died in April. She sued to gain as much as a third of his money.
New York Giants defensive back Tito Wooten won’t be disciplined for allegedly assaulting a woman several hours after Sunday’s victory in Philadelphia, coach Jim Fassel said.
San Diego Chargers running back Terrell Fletcher will undergo arthroscopic surgery today or Thursday to repair torn cartilage in his left knee.