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Troy Bergeron ended last season on the Cowboys practice squad, but he doesn’t want to wait for the lockout to end to get back to work. Bergeron signed on with the Cleveland Gladiators in a return to his AFL roots. He signed a futures contract with Dallas after last season, but the contract no longer applied because of the lockout. Bergeron also spent time with Atlanta and Buffalo last year.

All along, the NFL said it was certain the players' union would decertify and head to court. All along, the union insisted the league's owners were planning to lock out the players. And that's exactly what happened.

With the NFL on the brink of its first work stoppage in nearly a quarter of a century, Commissioner Roger Goodell and union head DeMaurice Smith met at a federal mediator's office Friday, the day the league's twice-extended labor contract was set to expire....

The NFL and the players' union agreed to extend talks on a new collective agreement for another week, raising hopes a fresh deal could be struck and a lockout avoided.

A month ago this Sunday, the National Football League capped another season as master of the professional sports universe by hosting the most-watched television program in history: Super Bowl XLV, seen by an average of 111 million viewers. A $9 billion industry, the league has brought unprecedented wealth to its owners and players during 24 years of labor peace.

On Monday, we suggested that the NFL and the players’ union shouldn’t bother to show up for mediation on Tuesday if they’re not serious about getting a deal done. Apparently, they’re taking us up on that.

The NFL and the players' union have made "some progress" over seven consecutive days of face-to-face meetings, "but very strong differences remain," and negotiations will resume next week, the federal mediator overseeing the talks said Thursday....

The NFL players' union is advising its members to prepare for a lockout it expects to come in March, telling players to save their last three game checks this year in case there is no season in 2011....

Rush Limbaugh wants to own an NFL team. The St. Louis Rams to be exact. But the NFL players union is saying No Way to the controversial radio host.