NEW YORK - The NFL Network and Dish Network announced a settlement Friday 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 Friday's 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.

DT Golston signs tender to remain with Redskins

ASHBURN, Va. - Kedric Golston has signed a $1.54 million, one-year tender to remain with the Washington Redskins.

Golston inked his deal Friday, joining fellow defensive tackle Anthony Montgomery and kicker Shaun Suisham as restricted free agents who have re-signed with the team this offseason.

A sixth-round draft pick from Georgia in 2006, Golston has started 25 games over three seasons, including 13 last year.

QB Michael Vick being held in Atlanta prison

ATLANTA - Michael Vick was back in Atlanta, the city where he rose to NFL stardom, but as a prisoner rather than a player, an official said Friday.

Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Felicia Ponce said the suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback was moved to a medium-security unit in southeast Atlanta from Virginia, where he had been held while attending a bankruptcy hearing last Friday.

Ponce declined to say if authorities 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's lawyers did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

The 28-year-old is scheduled to transfer to home confinement May 21 in Hampton, Va., and is set to be released from federal custody in July.

The move comes as the fallen NFL star is wrestling in bankruptcy court over what he has called his "exit strategy" - a plan to repay creditors with the millions he hopes to resume earning in professional football.

A federal bankruptcy judge rejected the plan last Friday, saying there was no guarantee that Vick would be able to resume his NFL career. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has said only that he will review Vick's status after he is released from prison.

Vick's plan would have allowed him to keep the first $750,000 of his projected annual salary. Creditors would get part of any amount over that.

Vick was once one of the NFL's highest-paid players, but lavish spending and poor investments, coupled with the backlash from his dogfighting case, led to his downfall. He filed for bankruptcy in July, claiming assets of $16 million and debts of more than $20 million.

Since then, he has lost nearly all the record-breaking $130 million from a 10-year deal he signed with Atlanta in December 2004.