Mary* is a massage therapist who worked with Deshaun Watson in 2019. She’s not among the plaintiffs who have filed suit & is not represented by Tony Buzbee. SI reached out to her. We reviewed messages/spoke to a contemporaneous witness to verify her story:
🚨 US Soccer, the USWNT and the USMNT have agreed on new collective bargaining agreements that will for the first time guarantee equal pay for games -- and for World Cup prize money.
When president Marc Badain resigned last summer, Jon Gruden gave business ops what was intended to be a rousing speech, rallying them behind interim president Dan Ventrelle. Gruden was out months later—after which employees received a spontaneous bonus—and Ventrelle last week.
Unusual front office turnover, overpaying taxes and underpaying employees, a complaint alleging discrimination and retaliation — a look at the Raiders’ dysfunction, with
@el_belson
&
@kevinmdraper
:
Huge congrats to
@JarrettBell
, the 2022 winner of
@PFWAwriters
Bill Nunn Jr Award for career achievement in pro football coverage. I'm so lucky to call JB a friend and mentor. This award is long overdue and so well deserved.
As I profiled several surrogates for the New York Times Magazine, I acquired a sense of their particular plight, but also a deeper understanding of the inspiring Ukrainian spirit during a time of war.
The NFL cleared the Browns of former coach Hue Jackson’s allegations that the team tanked during the 2016 and ’17 seasons.
@GGramling_SI
and
@ConorOrr
reviewed hundreds of pages of documents related to Jackson’s case and found that major questions remain:
We analyzed more than 1,150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Our investigation reveals how Carlson, using monologues and on-screen messaging, pushes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories into millions of households.
Living full time out of a vehicle has become aspirational for a subset of millennials and Zoomers. So
@caityweaver
spent a week in California, living out of a converted camper van, in pursuit of this aesthetic fantasy known as
#VanLife
.
The
@nytimes
is pressuring us to return to the office in June. But RTO must be agreed on with
@NYTimesGuild
as part of our contract. I hope management comes to the table today ready to fairly negotiate on all the issues that matter to us, including wages, benefits and RTO.
2 workers at a Kharkiv zoo who stayed to care for animals during the shelling were shot dead by Russian soldiers.
The workers had been missing since March and their bodies were found barricaded in a room.