NFL reaches tentative agreement with refs
NEW YORK – So long, replacements refs. The NFL's regular crews will be back at work starting Thursday night.
After two days of marathon negotiations – and mounting frustration among coaches, players and fans – the NFL and the referees' union announced at 11 p.m. Wednesday that a tentative agreement had been reached to end a lockout that began in June.
Commissioner Roger Goodell, who was at the bargaining table Tuesday and Wednesday, said the regulars would call the Browns-Ravens game at Baltimore.
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