Nfl
- USYahoo News 360
Brett Favre scandal reignites decades-old debate over welfare reform
Even when it's being spent legally, only a small percentage of welfare money ends up directly in the hands of needy families.
7 min read - SportsYahoo News 360
Can sports leagues learn to live with COVID?
A major spike in COVID cases among professional athletes has raised debate over whether the sports world is being too careful — or too cavalier — for the current stage of the pandemic.
7 min read - SportsYahoo News 360
How should sports leagues handle unvaccinated players?
The question of how to respond when some employees refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine is something that every business in the U.S. has had to answer. Professional sports leagues are no different.
6 min read - SportsYahoo News 360
Do star athletes make too much money?
With athletes in America's biggest sports leagues raking in salaries worth $300 million and more, is it time to reign in the big spending or do superstars deserve the big bucks they make?
- SportsYahoo News
For the love of the brain: One mother's fight for CTE awareness
Karen Kinzle Zegel spends her days working on the Patrick Risha CTE Awareness Foundation website, fielding questions and giving out information on a disease she barely knew existed five years ago – until it took the life of her son, for whom the foundation is named. Karen remembers, “We were a football family, his dad was a coach, I would cheer and yell and you know, do all the things the football mom does. At the time, she was unaware of CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative br
6 min read - NewsYahoo News
White House officials defend Trump, say athletes 'can do free speech on their own time'
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin defended Trump’s call for NFL players who kneel during the national anthem to be suspended or fired. “It’s not about free speech,” Mnucin said Sunday. “They can do free speech on their own time.”
- NewsYahoo News
Before Super Bowl, Trump talks Iran, Mexico, voter fraud, Obamacare, Patriots and Putin
In a wide-ranging interview with Bill O’Reilly, which aired during the Fox Super Bowl pregame show, President Trump discussed a myriad of controversies that have swirled in the two weeks since he’s taken office. Among them: his executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries, his verbal threats against Iran, his allegations of voter fraud, his phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, his threat to defund so-called sanctuary cities, his plan to repeal a
