Negotiators for the NFL and locked-out players moved closer Thursday to a possible resolution of the economic issues at the heart of the sport’s nearly four-month shutdown. If completed, an agreement on how to divide the sport’s revenues would be a major step in their bid to complete a deal to end the lockout in the coming days. There still were potential obstacles that could derail negotiations even as the two sides closed in on a prospective agreement on a system to split the NFL’s burgeoning revenues, according to several people not involved in the negotiations but familiar with them. Read full article >>