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Thursday brought word that Washington’s move to drop its former team name and logo would lead them to play this season as the Washington Football Team, but the rebranding rollout didn’t happen all at once. Old logos popped up for a while even after the team’s Twitter account was renamed and...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team will apparently be a thing for more than a year, and coach Ron Rivera hopes the football product he’s in charge of helps smooth the way for the coming transition. During an appearance on CBS This Morning, Rivera said the new placeholder name was part...

Getty Images Washington changed its name. It changed its logo. It did not change its colors. Terry Bateman, hired recently as the team’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, said burgundy and gold always was going to remain. “That’s not something we ever discussed changing,”...

Getty Images The NDA dynamic continues to hover over the NFL. Non-disclosure agreements, signed by current or former employees who receive severance payment upon termination and/or a settlement (in lieu of litigation) for allegations of workplace misconduct, help organizations keep secret both...

Getty Images Washington’s no longer going to send out press releases with the racial slur nickname they decided to stop using. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the team will now refer to itself as the “Washington Football Team” until a new name is chosen. They will also keep the burgundy...

Getty Images Washington decided to do away with its racial slur nickname on July 13, and announced moments ago that they’d be going by “Washington Football Team” until they come up with a new one. The rebranding is already hitting the digital space, as they’ve got a new Twitter handle, going...

Getty Images When the Washington Baseball Club hosts the New York American League Baseball Club on Thursday night, Juan Soto won’t be playing for the home team. Soto will be absent because he has tested positive for COVID-19. But here’s the twist that should have the NFL’s 32 owners rushing...

Getty Images If Dan Snyder wants a new stadium for his football team within the confines of the District of Columbia, he must first change the name of the team. According to Liz Clarke of the Washington Post, a name change is a prerequisite to any discussion about using the site where RFK...

Getty Images When wide receiver Steven Sims heard that Ron Rivera was hired as Washington’s next head coach, he reached out to his agent for some information about the former Panthers head coach. Sims is listed at 5-10 and 176 pounds and he told Sam Fortier of the Washington Post that his...

Getty Images Washington coach Ron Rivera believes that now isn’t the time to discuss whether the team’s name should change. Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy believes that time already has come and gone; Dungy tells William C. Rhoden of ESPN.com’s The Undefeated that Dungy already has stopped using...

Getty Images The NFL is set to announce that the first and fourth week of the preseason schedule has been scrapped, which doesn’t come as a great surprise given recent indications that things were moving in that direction. One of the reasons for the change is to give teams more time to work on...

Getty Images As the NFL fails and refuses to pressure Washington owner Daniel Snyder to change the dictionary-defined slur that has been the team’s name for decades, NFL sponsors are being lobbied to do what the NFL won’t do. Via Mary Emily O’Hara of AdWeek, 87 investment firms representing...

Getty Images Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones suggested this week that he could sit out the 2020 season if he doesn’t come to an agreement with the team on a long-term deal before the July 15 deadline to do so and he has plenty of company when it comes to looking for such a contract. With...

Getty Images Washington could have signed Cam Newton. It didn’t. Instead, Ron Rivera, who spent nine years with Newton in Carolina, traded a fifth-round choice to the Panthers for Kyle Allen to back up Dwayne Haskins. So Newton signed with the Patriots on Sunday, giving him a chance to win...

Getty Images Washington Mystics star Natasha Cloud has decided to skip the 2020 WNBA season. Converse has decided to pay her salary. “There are a lot of factors that led to this decision, but the biggest one is that I am more than an athlete,” Cloud said in a statement, via NBC 4 in...

Getty Images In nearly six months since becoming the new head coach of the Washington franchise, Ron Rivera hadn’t been asked about the team’s controversial name. On Monday, he was. During a Monday afternoon interview on 670 The Score’s McNeil & Parkins Show, Rivera faced the subject. “I think...

Getty Images Joe Bugel, who for many years was widely regarded as the best offensive line coach in the NFL, has died at the age of 80. When Joe Gibbs became Washington’s head coach in 1981, he brought Bugel with him as offensive line coach, and also gave Bugel the titles of offensive...

Getty Images Adrian Peterson re-set the running back market when he signed a seven-year, $96 million contract with the Vikings in 2011. Even though the salary cap has increased by 65 percent since then, running back salaries have barely budged, as NFL teams have devoted all that salary growth...

Getty Images Washington Senior VP of Player Development Doug Williams knows something about the quarterback position, as a Super Bowl MVP winner himself, and he says his team has something special in second-year quarterback Dwayne Haskins. Williams said on 106.7 The Fan that Haskins has a...

Getty Images Washington receiver Emanuel Hall will miss the 2020 season after tearing his Achilles. Hall, who was injured while working out last month, posted the news on Instagram. “So for those that don’t know, about a month ago while running routes and getting ready for training camp, I...