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Welcome back, Colin? NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will support and encourage a team willing to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who settled a collusion lawsuit against the league over claims teams were working together to keep him away because of his kneeling during the national anthem in 2016. “Well, listen, if he wants to resume his …
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The NFL players demanded to be heard and the league listened and responded. The NFL’s social media accounts posted a video of Commissioner Roger Goodell on Friday after more than a dozen players – including the Giants’ Saquon Barkley and Sterling Shepard, the Jets’ Jamal Adams and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes — asked the …
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The most powerful men in the NFL loathed Colin Kaepernick’s peaceful protests against racial injustice, essentially blackballing the former 49ers quarterback before reaching a financial settlement with him to end his collusion case against the league. Now, following George Floyd’s death, commissioner Roger Goodell said he is “committed to continuing the important work to address …
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Joe Lockhart saw up close what happened to Colin Kaepernick, how owners refused to sign the talented quarterback because it could hurt business. He was the league’s vice president of communications when Kaepernick was taking a knee during the national anthem to protest racial inequality and police brutality against minorities. And, now, as racial tensions …
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I was busted for porn Friday. And I blame Roger Goodell. As my wife passed by the computer in my office, she stopped to glare at the screen then issued a scold: “Very, nice. You’ve got porn on your screen.” Huh? What? “Yeah, that stripper’s rear end.” Huh? What? Turns out the shots she pointed …
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“Because I said so!” may have worked for our dads and for drill sergeants, but it’s terribly ineffective in medicine. As a practical matter, does the practical matter? So let’s say the MLB season — the MLB often so short on foresight — begins this season as per whatever format and schedule agreed upon, say …
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There will be blockbuster trades, surprising selections and all the other normal elements of an NFL draft. There also will be clock stoppages to allow negotiating, IT-equipped vans parked outside the homes of worried general managers and hackers trying to ruin the whole television production. The first-ever fully virtual draft will begin with the first …
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What we seek, what we crave, are those slivers of everyday that approximate normalcy. Sometimes, it’s the first few seconds of consciousness after the alarm clock shatters the still of morning, and for a couple of stolen moments it feels like a regular work day, the shower-shave-dress-coffee-muffin-train-subway routine about to kick in. Sometimes, it is …
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The NFL draft is one week away on Thursday, April 23, and the television production plan between ESPN and NFL Network has progressed. So let’s give you the latest rundown of the 11 most important points. 1. Roger Goodell will announce the picks from his Bronxville basement. The NFL is still going over how it …
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The NFL Draft 2020 is expected to begin with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell from his home or office introducing the first pick. From ESPN’s Bristol studios, host Trey Wingo will set up his analysts. The network’s top draft commentators, Mel Kiper, Booger McFarland and Louis Riddick will give their takes on presumptive first pick, Joe …
Welcome back, Colin? NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will support and encourage a team willing to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who settled a collusion lawsuit against the league over claims teams were working together to keep him away because of his kneeling during the national anthem in 2016. “Well, listen, if he wants to resume his …
