Owners likely to OK new Goodell deal
NFL team owners are expected to consider a contract extension for Commissioner Roger Goodell next week during the annual league meeting in Phoenix and “probably” will vote then to ratify it, a person familiar with the owners’ views said.
Goodell’s latest contract extension, negotiated with the owners on the NFL’s compensation committee, is “all but done” and is expected to run until the spring of 2027, according to that person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the league made no announcement.
The NFL declined to comment.
Goodell’s current contract expires in March 2024. The extension must be approved by at least 24 of the 32 team owners.
Goodell, 64, was elected by the owners in 2006 to succeed Paul Tagliabue as commissioner. Joe Lockhart, then the league’s top spokesman, said in December 2017 that Goodell intended to retire by the completion of his contract in 2024.
But Goodell’s plans changed, and now he appears poised to finalize another extension that would last beyond his 68th birthday.
Elsewhere: The Dallas Cowboys continued to fill needs in free agency with the signings of running back Ronald Jones and offensive lineman
Chuma Edoga to oneyear deals. They also re-signed defensive end
Dante Fowler to a oneyear deal. Jones is an option to replace departed star Ezekiel Elliott and to bolster the running back position behind starter Tony Pollard .He has two Super Bowl titles on his résumé in four years as a backup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and one year with the Kansas City Chiefs.
ETC. College basketball:
Fairleigh Dickinson coach Tobin Anderson has informed the school that he’s accepting the same position at Iona, CBS Sports reported. The report comes one day after Rick Pitino resigned as coach of the Gaels to take the same role with St. John’s. Pitino is being introduced by the Red Storm on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York. Anderson, 51, guided the Knights to a blowout victory over Texas Southern in the First Four before helping the newly minted 16thseeded club to a 63-58 victory over top-seeded Purdue on Friday. The win marked just the second such upset of a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament since the event expanded to 64 teams in 1985. … Ed Cooley has left Providence to become head coach at Georgetown, both programs announced. Cooley, 53, just completed his 12th season at Providence. His Friars were bounced from the NCAA Tournament by Kentucky in the first round. It was the Friars’ seventh trip to the tournament under Cooley, who was 242-153 at Providence and is 334-222 overall in 17 seasons as a head coach.
Tennis: Retired star
Martina Navratilova
said she’s cancer-free, just over two months after revealing she had been diagnosed with two unrelated forms of cancer. The former top-ranked tennis star described her frightening experience to
Piers Morgan on U.K.’s Talk TV. “I’m like, ‘Oh great, I have another cancer.’ That’s when I started crying on the table,” Navratilova told the broadcaster in the episode of “Piers Morgan: Uncensored” that aired Tuesday night.
MLB: The Philadelphia Phillies are now hopeful that Bryce Harper could return from Tommy John surgery to the active roster as soon as May. Phillies president
Dave Dombrowski told a radio station on Tuesday the team was not planning on putting Harper on the 60-day disabled list, which would sideline him until at least May 29. Harper had surgery in November and the expectation was longer.