11.   A CBS spokesman would say only that the matter remains unresolved, but that the two sides have been talking.

12.   According to Gutman, Belichick has a five-year agreement to be with the Jets, and the sides are talking about extending it to six years.

13.   After a week of meetings, neither side is talking of compromise.

14.   After nearly a month of silence, discussions between Smith and the agent for captain Keith Tkachuk resumed when the two sides talked at length Thursday.

15.   After the initial overtures, neither side talked for more than a month.

16.   Allen or Behring could back out, but for the first time, both sides are publicly talking terms.

17.   Both sides are talking about resolving their disagreements.

18.   Bourque will see how it goes this season, and the sides could talk about adding to the deal either a year from now or perhaps even earlier.

19.   But discourse has dissolved into discord when the two sides talk specifics.

20.   But neither the league nor the union said the sides had talked.