Topic: Gene Upshaw
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has told Sports Illustrated that National Football League club owners took advantage of union leader Gene Upshaw's death to try a money grab from players.In a story on the magazine's website, Brees said ...
Leader-Post staff The CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders announced on Wednesday the signings of three imports - defensive end Courtney Harris...
By late Friday afternoon, then into Friday evening, the fight between NFL players and NFL owners over how to share the money in a $9 billion...
Gene Upshaw was a retired football player, who played guard for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League and the American Football League . Upshaw died from pancreatic cancer on Wednesday August 20 , 2008 . NFLPA Director Upshaw Dead at 63 (August 21 ...
Eugene Thurman Upshaw (A.K.A Uptown Gene) was born on Aughust 15, 1945, Date of Death Aughust 20, 2008. In 1987, Gene Upshaw was inducted in the NFL Hall of Fame. Gene Upshaw was selected by the Sporting News to the ...
Retired Oakland Raiders guard and Executive Director of the NFL Players Association Gene Upshaw passed away at the age of 63 on August 20 , 2008 . Mark Maske's NFL Insider: Upshaw Dead at 63 (August 21, 2008) "We are deeply saddened and ...
The Senior Bowl is an annual college football exhibition game featuring the top NFL draft prospects. The 2009 Senior Bowl is being played on January 24 at at 7:00 p.m. EST at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, and is ...
In a move intended to honor Gene Upshaw , all NFL team uniforms will have a patch on them with the initials GU and Upshaw's uniform number, 63. August 15 , 1945 Died on Wednesday , August 20 , 2008 from pancreatic cancer onMark Maske ...
The furor raised by a firsthand account in Sports Illustrated of a football agent paying college players makes me wonder if this is news to anyone. Let's look at some of the facts about representing NFL players.. The application fee to ...
GU 63 During the 2008 NFL season, players wore black patches that read "GU 63" on their uniforms as a tribute to Upshaw's playing career and accomplishments as head of the NFLPA. Further Honors During the opening weekend of the 2008 ...
