Football
NFL Players Assn. Executive Director Gene Upshaw said a labor agreement between the NFL’s players and owners is closer after separate talks with Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Raider owner Al Davis.
But Davis, one of five holdout owners considered likely to agree to the tentative settlement between the players and the owners, was less enthusiastic about the talks.
Upshaw declined to elaborate on what advances had been made.
Davis has been holding out because he wants at least two players exempted from free agency, not only one, as the tentative settlement calls for.
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