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Union files grievance over fines for long shorts

By Chris Sheridan
ESPN Insider

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Have the NBA's fashion police gone too far? The players' union thinks so, and it wants an arbitrator to decide whether it was fair to fine 13 players $10,000 apiece for wearing their shorts too long. The union filed a grievance Wednesday over the league's renewed infatuation with fabric lengths, asking the new arbitrator -- Calvin Sharpe of Case Western Reserve University -- to hear his first case. "We think they're being too puritanical about the whole issue," union director Billy Hunter ...

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