NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue and negotiators for the league's players spoke by telephone Thursday without setting a date for the next session that could end the league's five-year-old labor impasse.
The only real activity on the day was a conversation between Tagliabue and Jim Quinn, the attorney in several lawsuits filed by players against the league and the chief negotiator in the talks that have reached the brink of an agreement and then stalled.NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said that Quinn and Tagliabue had agreed to meet soon to discuss the developments at two days' of owners' meetings in Dallas after the two sides had agreed on what they said was ``the framework' for an agreement.
