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• 'Pocket change': Some players think NFL got off cheap with $765M settlement in concussion case
• NEW YORK (AP) -- The hundreds of millions of dollars the NFL is ready to pay former players sounds great, until you stretch it out over 20 years and divide it among thousands of people.
• Which is why some former players and others think the league is getting off cheap in its tentative settlement with victims of concussion-related brain injuries.
• The deal announced Thursday to settle 4,500 or so claims is awaiting approval by a federal judge in Philadelphia.
• "$765 million?" asked former Minnesota Viking Brent Boyd, one of the original plaintiffs in the lawsuit. "The breakdown is $1.2 million over 20 years per team. What is that, a third of the average salary? There is no penalty there. It's pocket change."
• Former players union president and Pro Bowl center Kevin Mawae complained that the NFL does not have to admit culpability.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Saturday, Aug. 31, the 243rd day of 2013. There are 122 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On August 31, 1886, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.3 devastated Charleston, S.C., killing at least 60 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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• On this date:
• In 1688, preacher and novelist John Bunyan, author of "The Pilgrim's Progress," died in London.
• In 1888, Mary Ann Nichols, apparently the first victim of "Jack the Ripper," was found slain in London's East End.
• In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act prohibiting the export of U.S. arms to belligerents.
• In 1941, the radio program "The Great Gildersleeve," a spinoff from "Fibber McGee and Molly" starring Harold Peary, debuted on NBC.
• In 1954, Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern Atlantic states; Connecticut, Rhode (Continued on page 31)
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