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Judge rules on whether to unseal critical Korn Ferry doc in Flores case against the NFL (opens the original)
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One of the notable undercurrents of the long winding Brian Flores discrimination case against the NFL and six of its teams, filed in February 2022, has been the sudden emergence of a sealed document that the coach’s side believes is all but a smoking gun. It is a one page document concerning a head coach and general manager search performed for the Las Vegas Raiders by head hunter Korn Ferry. I wrote about it here https://danielkaplan.substack.com/p/brian-flores-lawyer-call-raiders?r=97olf&
Brian Flores lawyer calls Raiders doc “retaliatory” and “discriminatory” evidence (opens the original)
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It’s been nearly a month since I reported here Brian Flores’ legal team had asked the federal court overseeing the coach’s racial discrimination case against the NFL and six of its teams to unseal a one page document uncovered during discovery from executive recruiter Korn Ferry https://danielkaplan.substack.com/p/flores-to-add-new-discrimination.The document in the view of the Flores side is so explosive that the coach filed an amended complaint to address what is on that one page (that f
College sports bill would strip some of newer freedoms (opens the original)
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I haven’t written much about the college sports crazy landscape, but thought after today’s dueling press conferences, and the optimism expressed by Sen. Ted Cruz his bill will pass in the next week or two, I’d throw my analysis in.First, who you side with has a lot to do with how you view the rights of college athletes. Are they, and by they I mean largely those on football and men’s basketball teams, part of a more holistic ecosystem that works by symbiosis; or are they long exploited workers w
New sport Typti to get its first venue (opens the original)
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The new sport of Typti is opening its first standalone venue, in The Village in Woodland Hills mall in Los Angeles. The 4,000 square foot racket facility features one court, but will open that court to not just typti but pickleball, badminton, and beginners tennis, said Steve Bellamy, the founder of The Tennis Channel and the creator of typti. There is also table tennis at the new facility, and a large screen showing racket sports.At Sunday’s ribbon cutting, Bellamy said to expect top typti and
Judge rejects Brian Flores push to have NFL turn over records on Gruden, Kaepernick (opens the original)
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A federal court magistrate judge turned down Brian Flores’ push to open the NFL’s electronic records to all information related to Jon Gruden and Colin Kaepernick. The judge did give Flores partial access to commissioner Roger Goodell’s digital records because the NFL boss contacted the coach in the days after the race discrimination case was filed in early 2023.“The NFL’s search of Mr. Goodell’s ESI (electronically stored information) shall be limited to communications: (i) with Mr. Flores, the
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