As he left the Thomas Eagleton Courthouse following the NFL lockout hearing on Friday, someone asked DeMaurice Smith if he was heading to another secret meeting to bring an end to the labor dispute that has frozen pro football.
Smith, the NFL Players Association executive director, who engaged with the other side in a series of meetings near Chicago this week, sparkled with a slight grin.
“If I do have a secret meeting,” Smith shot back, “I’m not telling.”
From there, he dashed off, past a throng of reporters and TV cameras. Then he circled back, glad-handing with the more than two dozen players who showed up in court.
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