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NFL player representatives unanimously agreed to a new 10-year contract with club owners, ensuring the season will start as planned in September after a longest-ever 4 1/2-month shutdown.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Football League (NFL) and its players ended their months-long row over how to carve up their financial empire Monday by agreeing to a multi-billion dollar, 10-year deal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Football League (NFL) and its players ended their months-long row over how to carve up their financial empire Monday by agreeing to a multi-billion dollar, 10-year deal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Football League (NFL) and its players ended their months-long row over how to carve up their financial empire Monday by agreeing to a multi-billion dollar, 10-year deal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Football League (NFL) lockout remained intact on Friday as players and their representatives paused before committing to their next step.

MIAMI (Reuters) - The National Football League (NFL) moved closer to an agreement with its players on Friday that would end a four-month-old work stoppage and ensure the $9-billion league opens as scheduled in September.

NFL owners and players cleared a major hurdle during labour talks, reportedly agreeing on a structure for a rookie wage system to be included in a new collective bargaining agreement.

The two sides in the National Football League lockout engaged in another round of lengthy labour talks Thursday with both groups beefing up their bargaining teams in the nine billion dollar wrangle.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Green Bay Packers running back filed a class-action lawsuit against the National Football League, claiming it made unauthorized use of retired players' images to promote the league and generate revenue.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Professional basketball's Dallas Mavericks and their star player Dirk Nowitzki took home top Espy Awards on Wednesday night, capping a year that saw them become improbable champions.

National Football League club owners and players are set to meet July 19 before federal mediator Arthur Boylan, who began a vacation by encouraging both sides to continue negotiating.

The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out a judge's ruling that briefly halted the National Football League lockout, handing club owners a legal victory on Friday as talks with players continued.

The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out a judge's ruling that briefly halted the National Football League lockout, handing club owners a legal victory on Friday as talks with players continued.

National Football League club owners and players broke off talks for the US Independence Day holiday weekend on Friday, the 108th day of a lockout that threatens the 2011 season.

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Former Green Bay Packer lineman Frederick "Fuzzy" Thurston's Super Bowl II ring is being auctioned off to help satisfy a decades-old tax case, an auction official said Friday.

After weeks of closed-door negotiations with players over a lockout nearing its 100th day, National Football League team owners meet on Tuesday to discuss the state of talks on a new bargaining deal.

The Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers reunited to receive their championship rings after receiving special permission from the league to hold the ceremony.

Phoenix Envy?. In the early 1980s, Phoenix suffered from insecurity. A dry insecurity, but insecurity nonetheless. At the time it was the size Las Vegas is today - population 2 million - but hadn't grown a big-city reputation to match. The national media, when they bothered to write about the booming Sunbelt city, contributed to the self-consciousness - mocking it for undisciplined sprawl, an unruly political scene, communities of seniors cruising about in golf carts or its downtown, which could take cannon fire after nightfall without casualty. I lived in Phoenix back then.

National Football League owners have asked a federal judge to dismiss an anti-trust lawsuit against them by NFL players, but a hearing in the case will not come before the planned season opener.

Former NFL defensive lineman Esera Tavai Tuaolo has posed for the NOH8 Campaign. Former NFL defensive lineman Esera Tavai Tuaolo has posed for the NOH8 Campaign, which supports gay rights causes, including ending California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8. Tuaolo announced in 2002 that he's gay on HBO's Real Sports after he retired from a 9-year career in the NFL. The 42-year-old Tuaolo played college football at Oregon State University and was drafted by the NFL in 1991. He played with the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers. In 2006, he told NPR radio that he feared being outed while playing in the NFL: ?One of the biggest fears that I was living with is that someone would see me on television and might out me. So everything that I worked so hard for since I was a little kid that would be all taken away or to support my family. Just because society didn't accept who I truly was.? The NOH8 Campaign, which is helmed by pho