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Person familiar with meeting: Goodell, Vilma to get together Monday

NEW YORK, N.Y. – A person familiar with the plans tells The Associated Press that Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma will meet with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday to discuss Vilma’s suspension that was temporarily lifted last week.

Column: Commissioner has to convince NHL owners concessions will make the league stronger

All these years later, and especially now with the prospect of a lockout looming large this weekend, it’s hard to look at a picture of Gary Bettman without recalling the going-away present one NBA general manager sent the soon-to-be-named NHL commissioner. That was in 1993, when Bettman left his post as general counsel and trusted lieutenant to NBA boss David Stern to try running a league of his own.