Lockout

MLB’s players and owners ended their most bitter money fight in a quarter-century when a divided players’ association accepted management’s offer to salvage a 162-game season that will start April 7.

For all the vitriol, Major League Baseball owners and players have closed the gap in recent weeks and are negotiating on similar frameworks for a new collective bargaining agreement.

Major League Baseball reacted angrily to the latest offer by locked-out players when bargaining to end the lockout resumed, accusing the union of backtracking and showing no sign of a breakthrough.

MLB and the players' union have agreed to change the deadline for teams to offer contracts to certain players in order to keep them out of potential limbo in the event of a work stoppage.

The National Hockey League and its players' union reached a tentative agreement to end the league's 113-day lockout on Sunday.