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Pigs, Scorpions, take to the gridiron - 2004-02-13
The regular seasons of Pop Warner, high school, college and NFL football may have ended, but Imperial Valley football fans have another game to look forward to.

The Imperial County Law Enforcement Pigs will meet the California Department of Corrections Scorpions at Cal Jones Field in El Centro on Friday when the teams face off in the 16th annual Charity Bowl.

The Charity Bowl, which has featured the Pigs and the Scorpions the last nine seasons, is put on by the groups to raise money for children's charities around the Imperial Valley. It is a full-contact game played in full pads and the players range in age from their early 20s to their late 40s.
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Columnist Dean Juipe: NFL joins real world - 2004-02-13
With its offices on Park Avenue and its crew of expensive lawyers, the National Football League is perfectly capable of making a case for or against any issue within its purview. It has the power, the expertise and the financial wherewithal to implement its will virtually as it sees fit or chooses.

Yet no amount of money should be able to override the Bill of Rights and existing antitrust regulations, let alone, in theory, common sense.

No amount of money should be able to keep the NFL from preventing a young man from applying to the league for consideration to be drafted. No amount of money should be able to justify a practice that is, in essence, a restraint of trade.
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