MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After another stinging rebuke from the same judge who lifted its lockout, the NFL took its fight over how to run the $9 billion business to a federal appeals court Thursday as players pushed for free agency and other rules just hours before the draft.

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson late Wednesday rejected the NFL's request to put her order lifting the lockout on hold pending further appeals. The league wasted no time in filing its appeal.

In a motion for a stay of Nelson's order filed the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, the league said her decision "blinks reality" and is "deeply flawed."

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