Art Shell was hired by the Los Angeles Raiders long after baseball and basketball teams had been led by African Americans. Then he was fired after a winning season.
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NFL owners have a problem hiring coaches: They’re lousy at it
The main reason the NFL fails in its attempts to engineer better diversity is that the owners are generally horrible at hiring anyone.
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FanDuel, DraftKings can’t sink the office Super Bowl pool
About 13 million Americans plan to take part in casual betting like a workplace ‘boxes’ pool, which can help strengthen bonds between co-workers that got frayed during the pandemic.
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On Football: Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts set for historic Super Bowl matchup
Black quarterbacks have come a long way in the NFL since Fritz Pollard became the first to play in the league in 1923 and Doug Williams was the first to start and win a Super Bowl following the 1987 season.
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4 of NFL’s best tight ends on display in conference title games
The Chiefs’ Travis Kelce, the Bengals’ Hayden Hurst, the 49ers’ George Kittle and the Eagles’ Dallas Goedert play key roles in their teams’ offenses.
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Tom Brady walks off field at postseason’s end toward … what? He doesn’t say.
If this is the end for Tom Brady with the Buccaneers – or if it was Brady’s final NFL game – it was an inglorious conclusion.
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Going home: Bills’ Damar Hamlin released from Buffalo hospital
Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been released from a hospital in Buffalo nine days after he went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated during a game at Cincinnati.
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Browns sack Joe Burrow and the Bengals
Cleveland sacks Bengals QB five times and keeps him under pressure throughout its 32-13 win, which snaps a four-game losing streak by the Browns.
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CeeDee Lamb’s one-handed TD catch gives Cowboys win over Giants
Lamb made a one-handed touchdown catch with 8:30 to play to cap a go-ahead drive for Dallas.
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How the NFL blocks Black coaches
In 1989, the Los Angeles Raiders hired Art Shell, who became the first Black head coach in the modern history of the NFL. He is one of 191 people who have been head coaches in the three-plus decades since. A brief uptick of Black coaching hires in the mid-2000s provided hope that racial equity was […]