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After Thursday's confusion when NFL owners surprised players with a "deal" that hadn't in fact been negotiated between the two groups, things moved quickly, and today, they voted to approve a new collective bargaining By Karen Guregian / Patriots Beat The NFL endured 136 days of lockout stress and distress. Was their much damage done [...]

Rejoice nation, the NFL lockout is a thing of the past. It is not official, and isn't expected to be made official until Monday. However, it seems that officialness is a mere formality. ESPN offers us this: Now that the NFL lockout is over except for the official voting and signing on the dotted lines, [...]

We take a look at the latest NFL labor news, including a tentative schedule for the coming week. The NFL's labor nightmare is over. The sides put the finishes touches on a new collective bargaining agreement to end the lockout early Monday and football will soon be back in business. The NFL Players Association executive [...]

Recapping the NFL lockout news from Thursday and taking a reading of where things stand going into Friday. Assuming the players union votes to recertify and then ratifies the new agreement — and they'll lose the benefit of the doubt from 99 percent of the free world if they don't — the NFL lockout finally [...]

One football expert says one thing. . .another says the complete opposite. Nobody knows what the heck is going on. Joel has been covering the NFL Lockout before it started. All of his coverage and latest updates are at this link. Leave a window/tab open on it and StoryStream updates will appear automatically. Recapping the [...]

NFL owners could vote Thursday to ratify a new labor agreement, but that doesn't mean the lockout will be lifted. Why? Because the players are operating on a different timetable and say they won't be rushed into a decision. Although the sides are in The NFL owners have reportedly ratified the new CBA in a [...]

The NFL lockout is returning to that area where no one knows what's really going on but we've cobbled the latest tidbits from the various reports out there. At some point today, we might receive the official word that the NFL Lockout is over and that a new collective bargaining agreement has been reached. Or, [...]

It sounds like, as NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tells the Tennessean, the league will act as if the personal conduct policy applied all along and punish those offenders who were naughty during the lockout. Brian Blanco/AP – NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, shown Wednesday after the players' [...]