The NFL Network and Dish Network announced a settlement yesterday in New York that ends a lawsuit over how the satellite provider broadcasts the channel.

The agreement includes a multiyear deal for Dish to continue carrying NFL Network. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

"We are very pleased that our NFL Network will continue to be distributed in millions of homes on Dish Network," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a release.

In January 2008, Dish moved the channel from its most widely distributed, 100-channel package to the second-most widely distributed 200-channel tier. The company claimed the NFL violated their contract the previous month when it simulcast the historic Patriots-Giants game on CBS and NBC.

The two sides had amended their original deal in 2006 when the network began airing live regular-season games. That agreement moved NFL Network from the 200-channel to the 100-channel package and resulted in Dish paying higher licensing fees.

Dish claimed the contract reverted to the original deal when the NFL simulcast the game in which the Patriots became the first team to go 16-0 in the regular season, because that violated an exclusivity clause.

The league disagreed and filed suit a month later, asking the New York Supreme Court to compel Dish to honor the amended contract.

NFL Network will remain in the 200-channel package under the settlement.

"The NFL Network is a great complement to our programming lineup and we are pleased to offer the channel to our subscribers," Dish CEO Charlie Ergen said in the release.

Kedric Golston signed a $1.54 million, one-year tender to remain with Washington. Golston, a sixth-round draft pick from Georgia in 2006, has started 25 games over three seasons, including 13 last year.

Michael Vick was back in Atlanta, the city where he rose to NFL stardom, but as a prisoner rather than a player. A Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said the suspended Falcons quarterback was moved to a medium-security unit in southeast Atlanta from Virginia, where he had been held while attending a bankruptcy hearing. Authorities declined to say if there is a plan to move Vick back to a penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., where he has served most of a 23-month sentence for bankrolling a dogfighting ring. Vick is scheduled to transfer to home confinement May 21 in Hampton, Va., and is set to be released from federal custody in July.