Some news: I’m writing a book about Jerry Jones. Called “The Star,” my book will trace Jones’s remarkable life story and the astonishing rise of the NFL. Thrilled to be back in Jerry’s World. Coming in 2026 from
@AvidReaderPress
, a
@simonschuster
imprint.
John Clayton, a first-class NFL insider and our beloved longtime ESPN colleague, died today.
He also starred in the greatest This Is SportsCenter commercial of all time.
RIP, John
BREAKING: Pete Rose asks MLB for reinstatement, cites no punishment for Astros players for electronic signs-stealing. "There cannot be one set of rules for Mr. Rose and another for everyone else," Rose's 20-page petition to Manfred says.
Take two minutes for Chadwick Boseman’s inspirational message from his 2018 Howard University commencement speech. At the time, he was two years into his private stage 3 cancer fight.
Missing this obvious false start ON THE ENTIRE OFFENSIVE LINE only to call a bad defensive holding penalty ON THE SAME PLAY is the perfect capstone to the worst season of NFL officiating EVER.
The defensive holding penalty against Cincinnati never should have happened anyway because the officials didn’t call an obvious false start on the entire offensive line.
Colin Kaepernick attended Texans owner Bob McNair’s collusion case deposition in Houston wearing a KUNTA KINTE T-shirt. Kunta Kinte is a character in Alex Haley’s Roots: a west African man born in 1750 who repeatedly resisted enslavement by an American slaveowner.
Taylor Swift was the first to stand and sing along to the legendary Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs’ beautiful “Fast Car” duet.
Root hard and cheer loudly, always, for your peers.
The Nationals Park crowd loudly booed President Trump after he was introduced. An inning later, some fans chanted, “Lock him up! Lock him up!”
Game 5 of the World Series is the first MLB game that Trump has attended as president.
Who is Sarah Sellers? She finished second in the Boston Marathon. She is a nurse, not a professional runner. She had no idea she was in contention to win $75,000 in prize money, which she says she’ll use to pay off her student loans.
1. Because a handful of passengers often don’t show up.
2. Because Gandhi, which won Best Picture that year, and the other nominees— E.T., Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict— are all better films than Rocky III.
3. Because you guys lost by 29 to Purdue.
Michael Lewis is asked simply to give an update on Michael Oher while he was at Ole Miss. Lewis opens by saying with a smirk: “He’s on the Dean’s List at Ole Miss. Which says a lot about the Dean’s List at Ole Miss.”
It goes downhill from there.
Michael Oher disliked being portrayed as 'dumb' in the
#Blindside
film.
Where did that stigma around Oher originate?
Listen to the author of the Blindside book - Michael Lewis - speak of Oher's academic achievements to a group at Google.
Full talk:
My latest for ESPN: How Bills, Bengals— not Roger Goodell, not Troy Vincent— led the way after Damar Hamlin collapsed
“The Lord himself could come down, and we were not going to play again,” a top team source told me.
On the first episode of “Saturday Night Live,” airing 43 years ago tonight, host George Carlin describes the differences between football and baseball. A classic.
Spike Lee was visibly angry when "Green Book" was announced as the winner of best picture at the Oscars, waving his arms in disgust and appearing to try to storm out of the Dolby Theatre before he was stopped at the doors. He returned to his seat when the speeches were over.
My latest for ESPN: Woman sues Jerry Jones, alleges he's her father and that her mother signed a confidentiality agreement on her behalf when she was one year old:
Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit have the chemistry of a cranky uncle and glum nephew enduring a three hour car ride to a place neither one wants to go.
This tweet is wrong: NFL players have NEVER protested the national anthem. They say they're taking a knee to protest police brutality and racial injustice. And Beto O'Rourke understands that difference better than any public figure in America. Do better,
@CBSNews
.
My latest for ESPN: EXCLUSIVE: How a disputed $55 million loan plays into Feds’ probe of Dan Snyder’s Commanders. Roger Goodell and NFL arbitrator declined to investigate financial misconduct allegations against Snyder by his ex-partners, documents show.
“Two knees. One protesting in the grass, one pressing on the back of a man’s neck. Choose. You have to choose which knee you will defend. There are no half choices... There is only the knee of protest, or the knee on the neck.”
Sally Jenkins brings it.
Al Michaels managed to breezily run through “the controversial” DeShaun Watson scandal without mentioning the victims.
But Michaels did say the owners are *not pleased* by Watson’s unprecedented $230 million guaranteed contract because billionaires feeling put out is the story.
The only documents from the NFL’s inquiry of a toxic workplace inside the Washington Football Team are the offensive Jon Gruden emails, leaked days after being found. No report, no findings, no emails were released/leaked by the NFL about its inquiry of Dan Snyder and the WFT.
The Hiroshima bombing was 73 years ago today. John Hersey's classic in the
@newyorker
is 31,000 words, no photos necessary. The greatest magazine story ever published.
EXCLUSIVE: Sources: Dan Snyder claims he has 'dirt' on NFL owners, Goodell.
"They can't f--- with me," Snyder told an associate. "The NFL is a mafia."
A look inside the Dan Snyder's Survival Guide. My latest for ESPN with
@SethWickersham
&
@TishaESPN
: