People familiar with negotiations to end the NFL's four-month-long lockout tell The Associated Press there are still issues that need to be resolved, even now that owners and players have agreed to many of the main elements of a deal.

Among the items that are not yet agreed upon, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are supposed to remain confidential:

— whether the NFL Players Association will reconstitute itself as a union;

— exactly what it will take for the nine NFL players who are named plaintiffs in the pending antitrust suit to agree to settle that case.

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Among the parts mostly squared away:

— how the more than $9 billion in annual league revenues will be divided;

— a rookie salary system;

— free agency rules.

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