Oscar’s younger sister Carmen has just died after a long bout with cancer, and he’s having trouble going back to school. “In the West Beacon suburb of Philadelphia, we meet three disparate students at the combined junior/senior high, all of whom have their own problems. In Honor of Broken Things by Paul Acampora When a big play is needed, no one expects Mo to catch the ball, but he does! Mo practices catching a buttered football. Coach Steve keeps him mostly on the bench with him but he’s training Mo to be their secret weapon. He’s the smallest one on his football team but that’s because he’s also the youngest. Mo Jackson loves football and he just so happens to be African-American. The Oversight Committee requested a response by November 4, so the clock is ticking for the NFL to make its play. While there’s no way to know exactly how the NFL will respond to the request from committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, it seems more than possible that the league will turn over the 650,000 emails it gathered (but kept secret except for leaks) during the course of investigating the workplace culture in Washington with Daniel Snyder in place as the owner of the D.C. The House Oversight and Reform Committee sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday from CBS SportsĬongressional Committee to Probe the NFL’s Handling of Gruden Email Scandal “I say you have 650,000 emails and we’re supposed to believe that the scant few that have been released are the only ones that bear offensive content? I have this amazing bridge in Brooklyn that I’ve got to sell you,” Zirin said. But only Gruden’s have been released thus far. The initial investigation - which was aimed at examining multiple allegations, including sexual harassment, surrounding the Washington Football Team - unearthed the 58-year-old coach’s offensive messaged after parsing through roughly 650,000 emails. NFL’s toxicity goes beyond Jon Gruden’s email scandal Gruden subsequently resigned, prematurely bowing out of a 10-year contract with the Raiders, and essentially becoming “ collateral damage” from leaks of the Washington investigation. 11, The New York Times reported that the emails revealed that Gruden had actually engaged in a pattern of “misogynistic and homophobic” language from 2010-2018, criticizing everything from the idea of gay players and female officials, and exchanging pictures of topless Washington cheerleaders. Among those emails were exchanges between Gruden and Bruce Allen, then Washington’s team president and a longtime confidant of Daniel Snyder - one of which saw Gruden use a racial trope to criticize NFLPA executive DeMaurice Smith. 8, The Wall Street Journal reported that the NFL’s investigation into Washington’s culture included the examination of more than 650,000 emails from team staff. Gruden is just one piece of a larger puzzle Washington NFL email scandal: Everything we know so far about investigation that led to Jon Gruden resignation Have you been following the Washington NFL email scandal? ![]() Can you please help me out? What are your favorite children’s and YA books about football? Thanks so much! ![]() So I’ll be reading these books to add in my own opinion and adding to this list. I love how sports are a backdrop for the stories that showcase drama as well as the best version of humanity. ![]() Now 15-and still blind-he’s a starting quarterback. But then I found this story about Jasen Bracey: He lost his vision at age 7. I’m not very knowledgeable about football, but I wanted to learn more by starting a list.
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