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Goodell’s Washington Ground Game

The feds have been breathing down the NFL’s neck all year, and a quartet of league executives made the pilgrimage to D.C. last week to plead their case.

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Fans had been beefing with the atomization of sports long before the F.C.C. opened an inquiry into the NFL’s media rights strategy back in February, or the Justice Department’s investigation, several weeks later, into whether the league has committed antitrust violations. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
John Ourand
April 23, 2026

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This morning, I swung by Tony Kornheiser’s podcast to discuss the migration of sports to streaming—a longstanding pet peeve for the PTI host, who finds new media both too confusing and too cumbersome. “It’s another example of where I am left behind, and I have to sit in a corner and eat pudding,” the 77-year-old bemoaned on the show.