WASHINGTON (AP) — Northwestern University faces a Wednesday deadline to appeal a ruling by the Chicago-region director of the National Labor Relations Board that its football players are employees of the school and therefore entitled to unionize.

Northwestern, based in Evanston, Ill., has strongly disputed the ruling and has said it would file such an appeal.

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