The NFL Players Association dropped a bomb yesterday when it sued league owners for allegedly colluding to limit player salaries in 2010, when there was no salary cap. The union’s lawsuit seeks as much as $3 billion in damages for what it called an owner conspiracy to impose a “secret $123 million per club salary cap” that season.

The NFL apparently believes it is immune to lawsuits of this nature, based on language in the new collective bargaining agreement reached last year. That section of the deal now seems very peculiar in hindsight. What’s even stranger is that the NFL felt comfortable enough to punish four teams for not playing by the so called honor system. I’d think common sense would dictate not making any waves about cap issues in a year that had no salary cap.

Either it’s pure arrogance, or maybe just stupidity, for the NFL to place itself in a compromising position by punishing four owners and clubs.

LaVar Arrington, Dan Steinberg and Tarik El-Bashir joined Jonathan Forsythe on this week’s webcast to discuss who should be the Nats closer until Drew Storen returns from the DL, RGIII’s locker location (next to London Fletcher) and Mike Shanahan’s injury scare during OTAs, and Tarik broke down the Capitals offseason — who he thinks will be going and what holes the Caps will be looking to fill.

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I always thought if I won a Super Bowl ring, I’d keep it forever and hope that my kids would do the same after I’m gone. In my home, I have a few valuable trophies that sit around collecting dust, but I very rarely stop and really admire them.

I’m not one to gawk over things. Material things come and go, but hopefully the experiences and memories will never fade.

Yesterday we learned that the son of former New York Giants’ great Lawrence Taylor sold one of Taylor’s Super Bowl championship rings for more than $230,000. Taylor had given the ring to his son, and a representative for the former linebacker said Taylor was fine with whatever his son, TJ, decided to do with it.

Tim Hightower, who is continuing to recover after a season-ending knee injury in last season’s fifth game, is a veteran back on a team full of young, developing players. Re-signing him was critical: He will provide the much-needed leadership and experience that rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III will need.

Hightower was terrific during the preseason, but he slowed down some during the regular season. If he can return from his injury with the same type of downhill, slashing style he had before he was hurt, it would complement the talents of Roy Helu and Evan Royster perfectly.

The Caps made a valiant effort to get to the playoffs. They pushed hard to make it to game seven in the second round against the top-seeded Rangers, but it was not meant to be.

As with any team that has high expectations, questions about the future started surfacing immediately after the Caps were eliminated Saturday. As of Monday, we know the answers to at least two of them.

Dale Hunter no longer will be the head coach and Alexander Semin has little desire to return to the team next season.