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NFL Exec Pay Disclosed: Roger Goodell Earned $9.76 Million in 2009

As the work-stoppage rhetoric ramps up between the NFL and the NFL Players Association regarding how much profit individual franchises reaped in 2009, Friday's stunning disclosure of the salaries paid to the league's top executives last season should only add gasoline to the smoldering fire between the two sides. NFL...

SEC, ESPN Win Showdown After Comcast's First Ever Reasonable Action

What's your No. 1 fear if you subscribe to cable and you're a sports fan? Aside from the signal dying on the first day of the NCAA basketball tournament or on any Saturday or Sunday in the fall, it's that through no fault of your own you might not be able to watch your favorite teams play because of rights disputes between...

Report: Jon Gruden Backed Out of NFL Network Gig to Join ESPN

Jon Gruden made national headlines yesterday when he replaced Tony Kornheiser on ESPN's Monday Night Football. Kornheiser, of course, "stepped down" (as MDS, Ryan and I noted last night, that may or may not be extremely convenient) from his role in the booth with very little noise aside from the original announcement. All...

NFL Network Announces New, Expanded Deal With Comcast

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The NFL and Comcast have ended their five-year feud and agreed on a deal that will put the NFL Network in about 15 million more homes by Aug. 1, the league announced this morning at the NFL owners' meetings here.Since its inception, the NFL Network has been part of a paid sports tier option for...

Brian Billick Plans on Boring You to Tears During the NFL Draft

This sounds about right: the never-at-a-loss-for-words Brian Billick, recently relieved of his head-coaching duties by the Baltimore Ravens, will spend draft weekend on the NFL Network set offering a presumably unique perspective into the inner workings of the whole process. If his recent conference-call comments are any...