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Steve Sabol to undergo treatment for brain tumor

NFL Films president Steve Sabol will undergo radiation and chemotherapy treatment after doctors discovered a tumor on the left side of his brain.

NFL Films president Steve Sabol will undergo radiation and chemotherapy treatment after doctors discovered a tumor on the left side of his brain.

NFL.com cites an NFL Films statement yesterday about the 68-year-old Sabol, who was hospitalized March 5 in Kansas City, Mo., after suffering a seizure.

"[Sabol] will begin treatments soon," the company's statement said. "Steve is in good spirits and is deeply appreciative of everyone's good wishes."

Sabol has worked with NFL Films since 1964. His father, Ed, was elected on the day before the Super Bowl last month to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

Noteworthy

* NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith said he won't take a salary during the league's lockout.

In a speech to players at the NFLPA's annual meeting in Marco Island, Fla., Smith made a promise similar to that of commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL general counsel Jeff Pash, the league's lead labor negotiator, who already said they would reduce their salaries to a dollar each.

Smith also said that the letter Goodell sent to all active players on Thursday wasn't an attempt to engage in good-faith negotiations, but rather to create "dissension." The league could try to restart the negotiations by writing, instead, to lawyers representing the players now that the union has dissolved.

The NFLPA says labor negotiations broke down last week because the owners' last proposal would have made salaries a fixed cost and eliminated the players' chance to share in higher-than-projected revenue growth.