NFL players review parts of deal
11, 2011, in an effort to resolve their disputes.”
The country’s most popular professional sports league has been in limbo since the old collective bargaining agreement expired March 11. The lockout began hours later.
The lockout has resulted in pay cuts for non-playing employees around the league, and economic hardship for cities, like Cortland, N.Y., that hosted training camps in the past but won’t this year. On Tuesday, the lower-level UFL — which had been hoping to start its season in the void created by a lack of NFL preseason games — announced it is delaying its season start to mid-September, a blow for a league that has lost $100 million in only two years.
The NFL’s regular-season opener is scheduled for Sept. 8, when the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers are to host the New Orleans Saints.
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AP Sports Writers Rachel Cohen in New York, Dave Campbell in Minneapolis, and Andrew Seligman in Chicago contributed to this report.
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