Football

7/21/2025 |  NFL Players Association executive JC Tretter is resigning amid union overhaul (Associated Press (AP)) WASHINGTON (AP) — NFLPA chief strategy officer JC Tretter is resigning from his position, three days after Lloyd Howell stepped down as executive director of the players’ union.
Tretter told CBS Sports on Sunday that he doesn’t want to be considered for the NFLPA’s interim executive director position and denied he played any role in undermining Howell’s position.

7/21/2025 |  Trump threatens to hold up stadium deal if Washington Commanders don’t switch back to Redskins (Associated Press (AP)) CLEVELAND (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which was considered offensive to Native Americans.
Trump also said Sunday that he wants Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to its former name, the Indians, saying there was a “big clamoring for this” as well.

7/21/2025 |  NFL teams open training camp, starting the long journey to Super Bowl 60 in San Francisco (Associated Press (AP)) The Los Angeles Chargers and Detroit Lions already have kicked off training camp. Rookies for several other teams have also reported. All veterans across the league are due this week.
The NFL season is underway. The road to San Francisco for Super Bowl 60 begins in the grueling summer heat.

7/21/2025 |  Trump Threatens to Thwart Commanders' Stadium Deal Unless Team Returns to Redskins Name (Athletic Business) President Donald Trump over the weekend threatened to impede the Commanders' stadium deal unless ownership agree to change the team's name back to its former Washington Redskins moniker. 

7/21/2025 |  Trump threatens to derail Commanders' stadium deal over name change (AXIOS Sports) President Trump said he may move to block the Washington Commanders' new stadium as he called on the NFL team and also MLB's Cleveland Guardians to restore their old names.
The big picture: The Commanders changed their name from the Washington Redskins and the Guardians from the Cleveland Indians in the wake of an anti-racism movement that swept the U.S. after the 2020 murder of George Floyd and following years of activism and protests against the monikers that many Native Americans considered offensive.