Category: thenfl
NFL Owners Meeting example of sports media’s lack of diversity
Football is America’s sport because it’s the game that so closely mirrors how our society works. The players are the workforce/employees. The coaches are middle management. And the owners are […]
Best fits for Lamar Jackson, who requested a trade
Photo: AP He’s a heady pocket-passer with good arm talent and is behind one of the best offensive lines in the league, but his mobility and ability to handle pressure […]
NFL players can now wear 0, so let’s look at athletes to don it
Look at the NFL trying to be looser as an organization. First, it relaxed restrictions on player numbers in 2021, and the league has decided that in 2023 a forbidden […]
Dallas Cowboys’ Micah Parsons wants 0 jersey, teammate gets it
Micah Parsons was hoping to wear No. 0 next seasonPhoto: AP The No Fun League introduced some excitement this week when they announced players could now wear No. 0 moving […]
Lamar Jackson lights up Arthur Blank on Twitter
Lamar Jackson is the NFL’s Shohei Ohtani. If this were Major League Baseball, he’d be demanding starting quarterback and starting veteran running back money, and some owner would oblige and […]
ESPN in crosshairs as Disney starts laying off 7,000
Hard economic times have come for ESPN and its parent company — Disney. Like many companies, Disney is doing some downsizing. There have been rumors for a while and returning […]
Rob Manfred wants to make prude fans happy
This year’s MLB Opening Day feels different than recent iterations because the media doesn’t have (most of) its usual talking points to complain about. The rule changes are going to […]
NFL owners won’t flex TNF games, teams can play more than 1
It’s never a good sign when John Mara, the answer to the question of what would happen if George Will ate paste, is the voice of reason. But that’s where […]
Robert Kraft says Jerod Mayo ‘heir apparent’ to Bill Belichick
There’s a surefire way to piss off a coach and/or player, and that’s to name or draft their successor. Nobody enjoys confronting the mortality of their career on someone else’s […]
Chiefs superfan Xavier Babudar on lam for alleged bank heist
Xavier Babudar, the Kansas Chiefs superfan accused of robbing an Oklahoma bank, allegedly removed his ankle monitor and no-showed a court appearance, leading to a $1 million bond warrant, according […]