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Sports investigative reporter, The Washington Post. Story tips and BBQ restaurant recommendations welcome at will.hobson @washpost .com. DM for Signal.
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New: A woman who worked for
@Commanders
accused Dan Snyder of sexually assaulting her in 2009, months before Snyder and the team agreed to pay her $1.6 million as part of a confidential settlement
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New
@PostSports
: While Dan Snyder pledged cooperation with the NFL's investigation, behind the scenes, he waged a campaign potential witnesses saw as an attempt to interfere. w/
@lizclarketweet
:
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New
@PostSports
Earlier this year,
@WashingtonNFL
offered hush money to former female team employees who had gone public with allegations of sexual harassment
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New
@PostSports
: Our investigation of the NFL's disability plan, which aggressively fights claims from debilitated former players, breaks legal requirements to fairly review claims, and gets away with it, in part, with help from the players' union.
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Realize I'm a bit behind the news, but it's been a hectic day here at the ol'
@postsports
investigative reporting factory. What follows is a thread on our latest project, published this am:
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Just published
@postsports
-- How 'race-norming' in the NFL concussion settlement has deprived Black former players, and their families, of league-funded medical care and dementia payments.
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Thread on our latest investigative project
@postsports
, on how “race-norming” was built into the NFL concussion settlement:
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New
@PostSports
A former
@WashingtonNFL
lawyer sued an NFL investigator last year, in part, in an attempt to get documents relating to an allegation of sexual misconduct against Dan Snyder destroyed
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.
@lizclarketweet
and
@NickiJhabvala
with the latest on the WFT, er,
@Commanders
workplace scandal from Capitol Hill, where a former marketing exec just accused Dan Snyder of sexually harassing her at a team dinner
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New
@PostSports
Why three Title IX champions are risking their legacies to try to reform policies involving transgender athletes — and why transgender activists think their ideas are wrong and dangerous
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.
@lizclarke
on the House Democrats with questions for the
@NFL
over all things
@WashingtonNFL
, emails, Gruden, Allen, etc.
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@PostSports
@washingtonpost
@joeptone
@MattDRennie
@JasonMurray117
@briannaschroer
@vsingarayar
@rekhatenjarla
Lastly, to other former players and NFL families out there on twitter, if you have any tips ----> will.hobson
@washpost
.com.
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Intriguing reporting here, including more confirmation that Dan Snyder attempted to interfere with an NFL investigation by trying to buy the silence, again, of the former employee he'd already paid $1.6 mil in 2009 after she accused him of sexual assault.
From me,
@DVNJR
and
@tishaESPN
, via 30+ sources
*Snyder has said his dirt on Goodell/owners from PIs could “blow up” NFL. “They can’t f— with me.”
*He’s “lost Jerry” Jones
*Goodell “wants Snyder gone,” per exec
*A novel removal method owners have discussed
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Since it looks like no one has weighed in on this yet, here are my thoughts on whether Adam Schefter violated journalism ethical guidelines by sharing a draft of a story with Bruce Allen. (Thread, 1/47)
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This just strikes me as an editor who knows how to zero in on particularly great journalism imho.
One longtime "postie" on the new exec editor's town hall: "She said she read every Washington Post sports investigative article. That’s her passion? When she was asked what Post pieces she liked or wished the AP had had, she was not specific."
@playbookdc
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.
@apsmunro
continues to be an invaluable source of clear-eyed data on covid and children amid a flood of alarmist-tinged reporting
The best data by far on
#LongCovid
is out from the ONS
For kids, the news is incredibly reassuring - parents minds should be put to rest
Rates of common symptoms after
#COVID19
at 12 w for kids are extremely low (0% to 1.7%) compared to controls
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🚨🚨🚨kickass job alert: come work with me,
@joeptone
,
@mollyhc
,
@ggarciaroberts
and the best sports section in the country, as we attempt to publish journalism that at least occasionally mildly annoys billionaire pro sports team owners (and others)
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For all she has accomplished,
@JulieATate
was always exceptionally responsive and helpful on things much less important than national security. Incredibly smart, dogged reporter, and she liked sports! Sorry to see her go; jealous of NYT reporters who get to work with her.
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Working for
@postbaron
was an honor and a privilege. If you do journalism that often involves threatening letters and emails from lawyers, you slept well at night knowing Marty was in charge. The shoes that need filling are, as they say, rather sizeable.
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@PostSports
@washingtonpost
@joeptone
@MattDRennie
@JasonMurray117
And the only reason the story looks as nice as it does online is because I get to work with uber-talented people like
@briannaschroer
,
@vsingarayar
, and
@rekhatenjarla
.
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@PostSports
In 2021, the NFL concussion settlement returned to the news amid allegations of racism. We published stories detailing how the league had avoided paying Black former players suffering from dementia with the help of something called "race-norming."
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Phenomenal reporting by
@ggarciaroberts
that apparently inspired Yasiel Puig to tweet about his fandom of newspapers, both for their journalism and as a source of heat and light
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Thankful for recognition from
@APSE_sportmedia
for stories
@lizclarketweet
,
@bethreinhard
@DDaltonBennett
, a team of colleagues, and a small army of courageous sources helped us bring to light.
Will Hobson, Liz Clarke, Beth Reinhard and Dalton Bennett of The Washington Post won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2020 contest in Investigative.
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We’ve also only pasteurized milk for ~160 years. Makes you think.
Genuine q for ppl more concerned about schools being closed than covid: are you aware mandatory schooling is barely a century old in this country?
Maybe ur all grandparents had highschool, but what about ur great-grandparents?
Yes, education is important. But it’s a pandemic!
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@PostSports
I'm also incredibly thankful to work at a place like
@washingtonpost
, with sage editors like
@joeptone
,
@MattDRennie
and
@JasonMurray117
, without whom we'd have no story to publish, just pages of my incoherent scribbling.
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@PostSports
I am enormously grateful to players and families who shared their stories with us. Former NFL players, in general, are intensely private and proud. This helps the league, I think, because many horror stories of what retired players and their families deal with stay under wraps.
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New
@PostSports
Three more women are cooperating with the police investigation of Deshaun Watson, per Tony Buzbee, in a wide-ranging interview earlier today
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The
@NFL
-- whose lawyers have repeatedly challenged dementia settlement awards when doctors tried to avoid race-norming -- continues to insist the practice didn't discriminate against Black players. These three families, and doctors familiar with their cases, disagree.
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@PostSports
As we reported those stories, I kept hearing the same thing from former players and their relatives -- this race-norming thing was just one of many ways the NFL's "landmark" settlement seemed, in their eyes, like a bait and switch.
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@PostSports
So we kept reporting, and asked every former player, NFL widow, and child of a deceased former player we could track down to share their records with us. For the tl; dr crowd, here are our key findings:
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The NFL will not release detailed findings from the investigation. Information relating to allegations against Dan Snyder - including a 2009 incident on his plane that resulted in a $1.6 million settlement with a female employee - will not be made public.
NFL fines the Washington Football Team $10 million, says Tanya Snyder will take over day-to-day operations of the team for the time being. With
@TheWillHobson
,
@bethreinhard
and
@lizclarketweet
....
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Commissioner Goodell, moments ago at House Oversight hearing, stated that the
@Commanders
did not inform the NFL of a sex assault allegation against Dan Snyder in 2009, in apparent violation of the league's personal conduct policy.
New: A woman who worked for
@Commanders
accused Dan Snyder of sexually assaulting her in 2009, months before Snyder and the team agreed to pay her $1.6 million as part of a confidential settlement
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New
@PostSports
: More than 300 Black former NFL players qualify for cash payments or league-funded medical care after removal of race-norming from class action concussion settlement
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Very well-done piece here on the tragic story of the Haselrigs, who we featured last year in coverage of racial injustice in the NFL's billion-dollar concussion settlement
Fault Lines investigates the NFL’s failure to compensate players who suffered head trauma playing America’s most popular sport. A decade ago after it was sued for concealing the risks of playing football, has the NFL made good on its promises?
Watch now:
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New
@PostSports
: Ten former NFL players, including Willis McGahee, sued the NFL's disability plan and Roger Goodell over allegations of a "disturbing" pattern of underhanded conduct that led to wrongfully denied claims
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New up
@PostSports
: Former NFL players, and their wives, ask DOJ to investigate alleged civil rights violations due to “race-norming” in
@NFL
concussion settlement
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Featuring video by
@wleaming
, graphics from
@arturgalocha
, photos by
@jeffswensen
, and the design stylings of
@briannaschroer
.
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This ode to sports bars fighting to make it through the pandemic by
@DaveSheinin
will leave you with a strong urge to play hookey and spend the rest of the afternoon sitting on a barstool
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That player is Rick Cunningham, former tackle for the Cardinals, Raiders, Colts and Vikings. I met with Rick and his wife, Debbie, in June in their home outside Phoenix. Physically, Rick looks fine. But when he begins to try to speak, the impairment he's dealing with is obvious.
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The very same day, attorney Brad Karp, outside counsel to the NFL, tried to use a Black former player's race to get his dementia claim denied.
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I'm grateful for the Cunninghams, their lawyer Jason Luckasevic, and the many others who shared documents and their stories with us. For those who have more to share, I'm at will.hobson
@washpost
.com. I suspect this will not be the last story we publish about this case.
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2) From Bruce Allen’s deposition: Jon Gruden and Bruce Allen … not the world’s biggest fans of
@dcsportsbog
.
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Rick was first diagnosed with an early level of dementia in 2015, when he was 48. When the settlement was finalized in 2017, he was among the first to file a claim. He's still waiting to get paid.
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@dougherty_jesse
ok, I’ll finally concede you were right and I was wrong about Ben Simmons. Despite his limitations as a shooter and his issues at the line, he has found a way to be impactful in the playoffs.
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His first claim was denied in 2018 by BrownGreer, the law firm that runs the payout process. The denial doesn't explicitly state race-norming as a reason, but does mention that BrownGreer believed his cognitive test scores didn't support his diagnosis.
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3) From a presentation the Snyder legal team gave the NFL disputing the accuracy of
@PostSports
journalism… I know that guy!
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Three notes of interest — one newsworthy, two more of a personal nature — from today’s Dan Snyder/NFL report and document release by House Oversight.
1: Bruce Allen testified that the NFL’s investigations chief told him the Commanders leaked his emails with Jon Gruden
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@NFLObjectors
@SheillaDingus
@Harvard
@washingtonpost
@SeegerWeiss
We'll be publishing other stories about this case. Can't deal with every alleged problem in the case in one story.
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On June 5, 2020, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released a video condemning racism and systematic discrimination against Black people:
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.
@MarkMaske
and
@bethreinhard
with fallout from Gruden emails. The NFL continues to refuse to release any findings or evidence from the league's investigation of
@WashingtonNFL
and owner Dan Snyder
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This is really generous, they only needed to come up with one stop to top Gannon’s performance in the second half on Sunday
The Cardinals are pulling out all the stops to welcome Jonathan Gannon and his family.
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Reminder that the best piece of journalism done on Trevor Bauer of late came from
@ggarciaroberts
and
@mollyhc
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This is perhaps the most important piece of public service journalism
@washingtonpost
will publish this year:
I’ve long wondered whether you could do everything Ferris does in Chicago in one day. So I found out for
@washingtonpost
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@MarkMaske
with the news that Dan Snyder plans to buy out his minority partners.
@NFL
is not confirming unsourced information reported elsewhere that the league has already decided to fine Snyder over findings of long-awaited sex harassment probe.
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This is a masterful piece of investigative reporting by
@CoreyGJohnson
,
@rwoolington
and
@Eli_Mur
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In regular medicine, doctors can choose if they want to race-norm test scores, and they never base a diagnosis purely on these scores. But in the NFL settlement, our investigation found, doctors had to race-norm some scores, making it harder for Black players to qualify.
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Latest in the still-growing Deshaun Watson scandal: Two of the 22 women who have sued Watson alleging harassment and assault went public on Tuesday, and a second criminal complaint has been filed.
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A phenomenal piece of accountability journalism here by
@EmilyGiam
,
@ccemorse
,
@DaveSheinin
,
@MrMichaelLee
and co. Damning data analysis paired with illuminating interviews and anecdotes.
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News from
@lizclarketweet
and co: Under oath, Dan Snyder apparently suffered from repeat bouts of temporary amnesia in response to key questions about his franchise
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@DLeonhardt
continues to be a welcome voice of reason in the mainstream media on all things covid
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@PostSports
The suit comes one day after
@PostSports
published this investigation of the NFL's disability plan:
New
@PostSports
: Our investigation of the NFL's disability plan, which aggressively fights claims from debilitated former players, breaks legal requirements to fairly review claims, and gets away with it, in part, with help from the players' union.
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Exclusive from me and
@NickiJhabvala
: The House Oversight Committee tells the Federal Trade Commission that the Commanders and Daniel Snyder “may have engaged in a troubling, long-running, and potentially unlawful pattern of financial conduct."...
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Our story from last fall:
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@drewharwell
with a perceptive inside view of the life of a twitch millionaire that left me concerned about our younger generations while also wondering if I’ve missed my true calling
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@miltimore79
@pruett_collin
sabermetrics may not support this, but i will believe the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies were the best team in the history of the sport until the day i die.
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In the NFL's appeal, attorney Karp termed this decision "unreasonable" and not "clinically justifiable." He attached a chart, showing how, if the doctor had curved all Cunningham's test scores using Black norms, he wouldn’t have qualified for a payment.
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In Cunningham's case, his doctor curved some of his test scores as if he were White because, the doctor later explained, he felt the Black norms underestimated Cunningham's intelligence.
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Today's
@StPeteTimes
, with this -
http://t.co/dycDxNQW
and this -
http://t.co/OsTtigs4
reminds me why I worked so hard to get here.
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@DLeonhardt
continues to be a much-needed voice of reason amid a recent wave of alarmist journalism about Delta and children
The Delta variant is clearly more contagious than earlier Covid. But does Delta also cause more severe illness in the average person who's infected?
1. We don't yet know.
2. The evidence so far suggests Delta is similarly severe - maybe a little more, maybe a little less.
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