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Roger Goodell Has a Jerry Jones Problem, and Nobody Knows How It Will End
Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, elevated both his team and America’s sport to all-time highs, but in this age of athlete protests and declining owner influence, can an individual with Jones’ stature—and arrogance—exist within modern-day football? Inside the growing crisis between Jones, commissioner Roger Goodell, and the NFL.
Posted inReading List
Longreads Best of 2017: Sports Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in sports writing.
Posted inCurrent Events, Reading List
Stories are Everything: A PJ Harvey-Inspired Reading List
Frank Matt, inspired by PJ Harvey’s 2011 album Let England Shake, shares an article that resonates for each song on the record.
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Roger Goodell’s Unstoppable Football Machine
A look at the football commissioner and the group of billionaire owners making all the decisions behind the N.F.L.
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Spygate to Deflategate: What Split the NFL and Patriots Apart
An in-depth investigation into the “Spygate” cheating allegations against the New England Patriots, and an alleged cover-up by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to keep many more cheating accusations from going public.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. Whatsoever Things Are True Matthew Shaer | The Atavist | Sept. 8, 2015 | 61 minutes (15,311 words) A Chicago man is convicted […]
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and a ‘Failure of Accountability’
He sometimes barks when asked to bend his principles, the ones he learned from his late father, a U.S. senator. He gets enraged when someone, even an owner, tarnishes the integrity of the game or challenges his judgment. Many players and union leaders talk about his failure of accountability. “Right now the league office and […]
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The Man of the Hour
Roger Goodell, sandy-haired and fit at 51, is the steward of the multibillion-dollar NFL juggernaut, having attained the job he dreamed about back in college. Over the first 4½ years of his tenure, he’s had to address numerous crises: Spygate; player discipline, most notably in the Michael Vick case; an epidemic of concussions; and the […]
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Don Blankenship: The Dark Lord of Coal Country
Don Blankenship: The Dark Lord of Coal Country During the 1980s, the company injected more than 1.4 billion gallons of slurry underground — seven times the amount of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP disaster this spring. According to the lawsuit, Massey knew that the ground around the injection sites was […]
