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In 2007, Mike Flynt set out to right a regret that had haunted him since he first was a college player. He brought national attention to Division III Sul Ross by becoming the oldest college football linebacker in NCAA history at 59 years old.
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Meet the man who became college football’s oldest linebacker — and inspired a movie
Mike Flynt returned to college football at 59 years old, finally playing out his senior season 37 years removed from his last game.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6643056/2025/09/19/mike-flynt-oldest-linebacker-michael-chiklis/
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Travis Kelce detailed the 'frustrating' collision that sent Xavier Worthy out of the game against the Chargers. "I just got to be better, man. I’m 13 years in the league, there’s no excuse for me running into my own guys like that.”
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Travis Kelce explains 'frustrating' collision that resulted in Xavier Worthy injury
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6616585/2025/09/10/xavier-worthy-injury-travis-kelce-kansas-city-chiefs/
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Chargers Teair Tart was not ejected for this because the hit was open-handed. But the decision is drawing plenty of attention with the NFL supposedly cracking down on unsportsmanlike actions this season.
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Why wasn't Chargers DL Teair Tart ejected after hitting Travis Kelce?
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6603937/2025/09/05/chargers-chiefs-punch-tart-kelce-penalty/
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Worthy has now been ruled out for the rest of the game.
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The Chargers lead the Chiefs 10-0 early in the second quarter. Live updates from
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Xavier Worthy is questionable to return with a shoulder injury. He collided with Travis Kelce on the Chiefs' opening drive.
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Xavier Worthy injures shoulder, leaves after Chiefs' first drive vs. Chargers
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6603556/2025/09/05/xavier-worthy-injury-hurt-shoulder-chiefs-chargers/
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Tonight's Chiefs-Chargers game will be free to watch on YouTube. Here's what you need to know:
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What to know about YouTube broadcast of Chiefs-Chargers game in Brazil
Friday night's game will be the first NFL game streamed on YouTube, not to be confused with the paid YouTube TV streaming service.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6595437/2025/09/05/chiefs-chargers-game-youtube-stream-broadcast-info-brazil/
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Last year's Brazil game drew criticism over the slick field conditions. The NFL invested in a renovation of the turf at Corinthians Arena to increase traction ahead of tonight's matchup.
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NFL contributes to turf renovation in Brazil ahead of Chiefs-Chargers game
Corinthians Arena has a hybrid grass with synthetic turf sewn in and was overhauled this summer for the first time since its 2014 opening.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6598818/2025/09/05/nfl-brazil-turf-conditions-international-chiefs-chargers/
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NFL average ticket prices for the 2025 season via StubHub Eagles, Lions, Packers, Raiders, Bears among top five most expensive, all average over $400 a piece
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2025 NFL average ticket prices decrease slightly; Eagles most expensive, Browns least
Tickets for the defending champion Eagles are selling for an average of $475, according to StubHub. Browns tickets are averaging $158.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6595412/2025/09/04/nfl-ticket-prices-2025-average-cost-most-expensive/
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell may have dropped an Easter egg as to who the next Super Bowl halftime performer could be during an interview on “Today.” “We would always love to have Taylor play.”
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Roger Goodell says Taylor Swift a ‘maybe’ for Super Bowl LX halftime show
The NFL commissioner wouldn’t say whether a Swift Super Bowl appearance was in the works but didn’t deny the possibility when asked.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6595136/2025/09/03/taylor-swift-super-bowl-halftime-show-nfl-roger-goodell?source=bsky_hq
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Six of the NFL's 15 full-time female coaches are working in strength departments. Who are they? And how did they find their fit in the weight room? Big thanks to these coaches for sharing their stories with me.
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The NFL’s female coaching surge is here. Just look to the weight room
Ten years ago, the NFL had one full-time female coach. Today, there are 15, including six who work in strength and conditioning.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6472602/2025/07/16/nfl-women-coaches-hiring-trends/
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Rome Odunze knows what's ahead of him entering his second NFL season. “I can now play the game freely in a way that I know where I need to be when I need to be there," he said at minicamp last week. More on his offseason development:
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Why Rome Odunze, stronger and playing ‘freely’ in Year 2, has high hopes for 2025
Just 23 and now with a year of experience, Odunze said he feels much more prepared for his second NFL season.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6408256/2025/06/09/rome-odunze-bears-offseason-practices/
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News out of NFL league meetings: • New onside kick rule allows teams to declare onside kick at any time they are trailing, not just the fourth quarter. • Detroit withdraws its proposal to reseed the playoffs.
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NFL adjusts onside kick rule, Detroit withdraws playoff proposal
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6372577/2025/05/21/nfl-onside-kick-rule-playoff-proposal/
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For two decades, Howard Katz has been at the center of each year’s NFL schedule. He’s the unknown planner behind every NFL fan’s fall Sundays. And Wednesday will mark his final football masterpiece ahead of retirement.
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Details on the NFL 2025 international schedule: • Vikings travel to Dublin, London in back-to-back weeks. • Game in São Paulo, Brazil, with the Los Angeles Chargers as the designated home team, is still to be announced.
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NFL 2025 international schedule: Vikings travel to Dublin, London in back-to-back weeks
The Broncos (London), Rams (London), Falcons (Berlin) and Commanders (Madrid) are also headed overseas in 2025.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6350612/2025/05/13/nfl-international-games-2025-season-schedule/
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Tom Brady said he texted Shedeur Sanders after the former Colorado quarterback's slide in the NFL Draft. Brady, a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, also said he was not involved in any evaluation processes involving Sanders.
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The deadline for NFL teams to exercise the fifth-year option on 2022 first-round draft picks is Thursday. Here's where each player stands, including Drake London, Aidan Hutchinson, Derek Stingley Jr. and others.
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NFL fifth-year player options tracker: Browns decline Kenny Pickett’s option
The deadline for teams to pick up or decline fifth-year options on first-round picks from the 2022 draft is May 1.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6317969/2025/04/29/nfl-fifth-year-player-options-tracker/
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Shedeur Sanders will — at best — be the sixth quarterback off the board. His slide has turned into a free fall entering Day 3.
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Shedeur Sanders’ NFL Draft tumble continues into Saturday as QB goes undrafted in Rounds 2-3
Once widely projected as a first-round pick, Sanders' landing spot became less clear as the draft approached.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6310337/2025/04/25/shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft-slide-continues/
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The second round is complete. Shedeur Sanders is still waiting. Three QBs have been selected so far (Cam Ward, No. 1 to Titans; Jaxson Dart, No. 25 to Giants; Tyler Shough, No. 4 to Saints).
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Shedeur Sanders’ NFL Draft tumble continues as QB isn’t picked in second round
Once widely projected as a first-round pick, Sanders' landing spot became less clear as the draft approached.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6310337/2025/04/25/shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft-slide-continues/
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Deion Sanders posted a video on Instagram of Shedeur responding to his Day 1 slide. "We all didn't expect this but I feel like with God anything is possible. ... This is fuel to the fire. ... Tomorrow's the day. We're going to be happy regardless."
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Shedeur Sanders, after NFL Draft hype, not picked in first round: How far will the QB slide?
Various mock drafts and experts projected Sanders would be selected in the first round.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6306197/2025/04/24/shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft-slide/
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We're halfway through the first round. Is this sound stuck in your head yet?
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Where did ESPN’s NFL Draft chime come from? The story behind the iconic sound
You know the sound. You hear it, perhaps hundreds of times, every April. But you probably don't know how and when it came to be.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6297221/2025/04/22/nfl-draft-2025-music-espn-sound/
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Travis Hunter was announced as both a WR and DB as the No. 2 pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars. He can probably go fishing there.
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You know Travis Hunter the 2-way phenom. But a 2-sport star? Take a ride on his fishing boat
Hunter catches even more fish than TDs and INTs: "That's all he really wants to do other than be the best football player on the planet."
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6211002/2025/03/19/nfl-draft-travis-hunter-2025-prospects-fishing/
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It's almost draft time! 15 prospects are in Green Bay tonight, including Cam Ward, Travis Hunter and Jalen Milroe. According to one agent I talked to, a first-round evaluation is often the most important factor for players considering attending.
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How do NFL Draft prospects decide whether to attend the green room? It’s complicated
Nobody wants to wind up like Will Levis, sliding out of Round 1 while the world watches, but there are many other factors to consider.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6302933/2025/04/24/nfl-draft-2025-green-room-prospects/
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Happy
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day! How do prospects decide to attend or not attend the green room? I talked to agents to learn more about the factors athletes consider and where in-person draft attendance might be heading.
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How do NFL Draft prospects decide whether to attend the green room? It’s complicated
Nobody wants to wind up like Will Levis, sliding out of Round 1 while the world watches, but there are many other factors to consider.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6302933/2025/04/24/nfl-draft-2025-green-room-prospects/
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This morning with Patrick Mahomes: • How a Super Bowl loss motivates his offseason • Why he's excited about the Chiefs' chance to return to an explosive passing attack • Why he cut his hair (he was superstitious)
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Motivated by Super Bowl loss, Patrick Mahomes seeks explosive Chiefs passing attack
With the Chiefs' offseason program underway, Mahomes talked about his "bad taste" from the Super Bowl LIX loss and his new look.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6302440/2025/04/23/patrick-mahomes-motivation-super-bowl-loss/
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What's the story behind ESPN's iconic NFL Draft chime that signals a pick is about to be announced? “They’ve heard it, whether they know it or not," composer Bob Christianson said.
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Where did ESPN’s NFL Draft chime come from? The story behind the iconic sound
You know the sound. You hear it, perhaps hundreds of times, every April. But you probably don't know how and when it came to be.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6297221/2025/04/22/nfl-draft-2025-music-espn-sound/
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The NFL Draft is the league’s marquee offseason event. A fresh slate. A celebration of hope. Across the country, in quiet apartments and family-filled homes, the glamour fades for the athletes left waiting for their phones to ring:
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Prospective No. 1 pick Cam Ward accepted an invitation to attend the NFL Draft in Green Bay along with 17 other prospects. The quarterbacks who will join Ward are particularly interesting.
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Cam Ward, Travis Hunter highlight 17 players attending 2025 NFL Draft
Three quarterbacks but not Shedeur Sanders are among the prospects who will be at next week's draft in Green Bay.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6279487/2025/04/14/nfl-draft-attendees-2025/
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Top prospects who slide in the NFL Draft early rounds are well-documented. But no day sees more players selected than the final one. Here are the stories of their waiting game. “It was probably one of the worst days and the best days of my life."
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What’s NFL Draft day like for waiting prospects? ‘One of the worst and best days of my life’
For prospects waiting for a phone call, Day 3 stirs up all kinds of emotions. "I felt embarrassed," Rams Pro Bowl RB Kyren Williams recalls.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6278962/2025/04/15/nfl-draft-prospects-waiting-game/
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Adam Hirshfield
8 months ago
THE NEW BEAST IS HERE! THE NEW BEAST IS HERE! Check out the new and improved Beast from the beast himself, Dane Brugler. 🧵
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Kevin Fishbain
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New
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: One year ago, the Bears were “putting our energy to downtown Chicago,” Kevin Warren said in Orlando. Today in Palm Beach? Arlington Heights was the focal point of the conversation. Story⤵️
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Bears shift focus on new stadium location to Arlington Heights; downtown still in play
After a year of talk about building a new stadium on the museum campus downtown, the Bears are shifting focus back to Arlington Heights.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6249799/2025/04/02/bears-stadium-arlington-heights-shift
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NFL to air 3 games on Christmas Day
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NFL to air 3 games on for Christmas Day 2025, Netflix partnership continues
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6247055/2025/04/01/nfl-christmas-day-netflix-streaming-amazon/
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The vote to ban the "tush push" has been tabled. Here's more on what coaches around the league were saying about the controversial play this week:
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8 months ago
Five weeks ago, Mary Kate Cornett was a first-year business major dating another Ole Miss student. Then a spurious claim about her and her boyfriend’s father spread — and was amplified by Pat McAfee, Barstool personalities and others.
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Tracking what NFL coaches are saying about the tush push at league meetings this week. Owners will vote on whether to ban the play tomorrow.
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What NFL coaches are saying about the 'tush push' as league vote approaches
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6244400/2025/03/31/nfl-tush-push-coach-reactions-league-meetings/
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Tom Izzo spent Sunday living and dying. From the moment he arrived to in the dark of night, standing in the exhaust of a bus waiting for him to board. From Atlanta, my story on the final day of a season the old man needed — a season that changed his clock:
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Michigan State is out, but Tom Izzo isn’t finished: ‘This year has reinvigorated me’
Michigan State fell short of the Final Four against Auburn, but the 70-year-old Izzo says "this year has reinvigorated" him.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6243512/2025/03/31/tom-izzo-michigan-state-auburn/
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Megan Feringa
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👩🚀 Man walked on moon before women ran in sports bras ❌ 80% wear wrong size 🏎️ Unsupported breasts endure same g-force as F1 driver going more than 260kmh 🏃♀️ 4cm lost from stride How a misunderstood icon is now women's sports' newest frontier
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How the sports bra continues to revolutionize sports and women’s rights: ‘No sports bra, no sport’
The concept has been around since the 1970s but in-depth sports bra research has only really progressed in the past decade
https://nytimes.com/athletic/6214668/2025/03/27/history-sports-braPiece
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9 months ago
🚨NEWS: Future Hall of Famer JJ Watt will become an NFL game analyst, teaming with Ian Eagle on CBS' No. 2 team this season, The Athletic has learned
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J.J. Watt becoming NFL analyst with CBS, teaming with Ian Eagle: Sources
Watt had been in CBS’ NFL Today studio, but got the game bug after calling the Christmas Day game with Eagle for Netflix.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6233031/2025/03/26/cbs-sports-college-football-nfl-gary-danielson-jj-watt/
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9 months ago
Exactly 25 years ago, Jason Richardson was a freshman for a 1999-2000 Michigan State team that still holds a place in history. Now, with his son Jase on the roster, what began this season as a nice story of lineage is now approaching bizarre levels of serendipity. 🔗:
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Aaron Rodgers could be closer to joining his third NFL team. The four-time MVP QB is visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers on Friday, a source tells The Athletic. Details:
http://dlvr.it/TJgTY5
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At last month’s NFL combine, when asked by ESPN how he handles the pressure of the upcoming NFL Draft, Travis Hunter shrugged. “I just look at fishing all day,” he replied. It got me thinking, what's it like on a fishing boat with Travis Hunter?
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You know Travis Hunter the 2-way phenom. But a 2-sport star? Take a ride on his fishing boat
Hunter catches even more fish than TDs and INTs: "That's all he really wants to do other than be the best football player on the planet."
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6211002/2025/03/19/nfl-draft-travis-hunter-2025-prospects-fishing/
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Netflix is premiering a new NFL docu-series this summer ... and no, it's not about mascots. "Quarterback" returns for its second season featuring Joe Burrow, Jared Goff and Kirk Cousins. Read more on what to expect:
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Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’ Season 2 to feature Joe Burrow, Jared Goff, Kirk Cousins
Cousins returns to the series as Netflix followed the trio of Pro Bowl quarterbacks through the 2024-25 NFL season.
https://nytimes.com/athletic/6215699/2025/03/19/netflix-quarterback-season-two-burrow-cousins-goff/
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Catching footballs or fish? Travis Hunter is skilled at both. "I joke around a lot, so I said, ‘Are you better at offense, defense or bass fishing?’” remembers Chuck Pippin. “(Hunter) quickly answered bass fishing. That’s his passion.” New from me ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/621...
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You know Travis Hunter the 2-way phenom. But a 2-sport star? Take a ride on his fishing boat
Hunter catches even more fish than TDs and INTs: "That's all he really wants to do other than be the best football player on the planet."
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6211002/2025/03/19/nfl-draft-travis-hunter-2025-prospects-fishing/
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9 months ago
There isn’t Travis Hunter the two-way football star without Hunter the fisherman. Scoring touchdowns or picking off passes? He dreams of neither. “When I dream at night, I’m fishing on a boat.”
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News: Former New York Jets DE Mark Gastineau is suing ESPN, NFL and others over the publication of an exchange between him and Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre in the 30 for 30 documentary "The New York Sack Exchange." The suit seeks $25 million.
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Mark Gastineau sues ESPN, NFL for $25 million over viral Brett Favre clip
Gastineu said Favre "took a dive" to help Strahan secure the single-season sack record during the November 2023 encounter, per the clip.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6203524/2025/03/14/mark-gastineau-espn-nfl-lawsuit-brett-favre/
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Non-free agency news: The NFL announced its 2024 performance-based pay amounts today, which will distribute over $452 million to players.
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NFL 2024 performance-based pay: Players earn additional $452 million
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6197683/2025/03/12/nfl-performance-based-pay-2024-jamien-sherwood/
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9 months ago
The No. 1 player on our NFL free agent list is now off the board. Our live tracker and rankings ⤵️
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NFL free-agency 2025 tracker: Where Sam Darnold, Aaron Rodgers and top 150 players land
Darnold hit free agency as one of the top players available, and Rodgers is seeking a new home, too. Track all the action right here.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6178324/2025/03/10/nfl-free-agent-tracker-rankings?source=bsky_hq
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Dianna Russini
9 months ago
Sam Darnold has agreed to terms with the Seahawks, per source. The top free agent quarterback available, Darnold gets the three-year deal he sought and heads to Seattle after a career year in Minnesota.
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9 months ago
Here we go!
@qbklass.bsky.social
and I are getting started with a 5+ hour livestream to celebrate the kickoff of free agency. We're getting started at 11:30 am ET to hit all the news, before welcoming a bunch of friends to run through today's signings. YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxdE...
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Dianna Russini
9 months ago
The Patriots have agreed to terms with ex-Eagle Milton Williams, per source. New England makes a splash along its defensive line by adding the Super Bowl LIX champion.
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