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The NFL draft, which moved out of Madison Square Garden last season, will move to another New York City landmark this year -- Radio City Music Hall.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a big football fan, ruled out applying for the job of NFL commissioner after Paul Tagliabue retires.

NFL owners will begin the search to replace the man described by one of them as one of the "all-time great commissioners in professional sports" ? Paul Tagliabue ? at the spring meetings in Orlando, Fla.

Paul Tagliabue reportedly is seriously thinking about ending his 17-year run as NFL commissioner, league sources say.

Labor peace was restored to the NFL when the owners agreed to the players' union proposal Wednesday, extending the collective bargaining agreement for six years.

The NFL delayed another deadline on Wednesday.

Apparently, all the NFL labor talks have established is that there is no such thing as a deadline.

There was no deal following the latest round of "it's done, it's not done" reports on Sunday.

NFL labor negotiations took yet another surprising turn late Sunday when the league and union agreed to postpone free agency another 72 hours, giving the sides more time to try to reach agreement on an extension to their contract.

Talks between the NFL and its players union broke off Saturday with no progress, and while the league said the sides would meet again Sunday, the union said it wasn't sure.

The NFL hopes that a three-day reprieve doesn't serve as merely a delay for what could turn into a chaotic situation.

A few hours after NFL owners voted to continue their standoff with the players union, the league extended its deadline for free agency by three days, putting off what threatened to become a mass purge of high-priced players from rosters.

NFL owners voted unanimously Thursday to break off talks with the players' union on a contract extension, leaving the current salary cap in place with the start of free agency looming -- and possibly forcing the mass dumping of veterans.

NFL owners will try Thursday to find labor peace before the start of free agency, hoping to avoid the mass dumping of veterans for salary-cap reasons.