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Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Bud Selig (R) and MLB Players Association Executive Director Donald Fehr take their seats prior to testifying before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Drugs in Sports in Washington on February 27, 2008. The committee heard testimony from various professional sporting leagues on the use of performance enhancing drugs. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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The union representing locked-out NHL players Wednesday submitted its latest proposal for a labor deal aimed at saving the 2012-13 NHL season.
NHL contract talks took place for a second straight day Thursday, although no progress was reported in the lockout that has already cost the league 526 games.
A contract proposal from NHL players was rejected by club owners Thursday and talks aimed at saving the hockey season came to at least a temporary end.
Negotiators seeking to end the 81-day-old NHL lockout reconvened Wednesday amid signs of progress toward a deal that would save the 2012-13 season.
Federal mediators will join stalled collective bargaining negations to end the 9-week-old NHL lockout, league officials said Monday.
NHL owners and players Wednesday broke off contract talks with no new progress toward ending a 2-month-old lockout, Commissioner Gary Bettman said.
NHL owners and union representatives of locked-out players will meet again Wednesday after a 90-minute bargaining session Monday, a league official says.
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