NFL players win court ruling as deadline looms - Yahoo! News
This is great news. I hope it holds up on appeal. This gives the owners huge incentive to get a CBA deal done otherwise no TV money. Especially those small/weak market teams that depend on the TV money to pay their bills.
"In a ruling on Tuesday, US District Court judge David Doty in Minneapolis sided with the union by overruling a February 1 decision to reject the NFLPA's request that $4 billion in 2011 payments from networks to the league be placed in escrow if there is a lockout."