The National Football League is hiring its first full-time female official. Sarah Thomas will join the NFL as a line judge. A Mississippi native, Thomas was the first woman to officiate a college football bowl game. "I was speechless," Thomas told reporters Wednesday describing her reaction to...
By 1985, the NFL began requiring equal access for both male and female reporters. However, the NFLPA's Howell said today's debate isn't about gender at all -- it's about evaluating a longstanding tradition through a 2024 perspective. "It's just going to be a very different pr...
Long-time sports journalist Jemele Hill alluded to that reality in her reply. It’s worth noting that female reporters are confronted with the same nonsense about peeping, too… “This doesn’t surprise me at all. Most women I know who had to go in men’s locker rooms are terrif...
“Witnesses described Gosder’s behavior as disruptive, irritable, delirious and aggressive during the flight,” police wrote. About an hour into the flight, Gosder allegedly got out of his seat, went to seat 4C, and “fully exposed his genitals and began urinating on ...
Speaking with Adweek, Betches senior vice president of revenue partnerships Randi Windt said, “This is not necessarily about reaching the female sports enthusiast who is watching every game. This is about growing the audience and expanding consumption by creating relatable content that appeals to the...
By March, both the state House and Senate had passed the bill. The stadium bill faced only a conference committee to iron out differences. But lawmakers underestimated a public outcry following the Feb. 3 congressional roundtable at the U.S. Capitol, where five female former em...
Andrews, 46, made the fashion mistake of wearing all black (since she didn’t want to wear all white two weeks in a row), and then well, pure comedy ensued, as the NFL fashion maven (owner of the NFL’s successful female line Wear by Erin Andrews) described to Thompson, 4...
The wild-card games of the 2022 NFL playoffs are complete, as the San Francisco 49ers were the first team to advance out of the weekend after a 41-23 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday. The Jacksonville Jaguars came back from a 27-0 deficit to beat the Los Angeles Chargers 31-...
“I had hoped to do it in San Francisco, in front of national TV, but they got me mad with all their talking,” Dickerson told reporters. “I told our line, ‘We’re gonna get it today.’ I was going to make it a long day for them.” 1983: Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king ...
Since the announcement earlier this year that Netflix would broadcast two Christmas Day NFL games, it’s been a popular parlor game amongst sports media types to guess who the streamer would tap to fill its booths. Today, we have an answer. ...