ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington’s NFL team hired TV reporter, anchor and host Julie Donaldson to oversee its broadcast operation and be a member of a three-person radio booth for games. Citing NFL Research, the team said Tuesday that Donaldson will be the first woman to be a regular on-air member of an NFL radio broadcast booth. She will not do play-by-play calls but will help choose who does. Donaldson will be the team’s senior vice president of media, an announcement that comes less than a week after longtime broadcaster Larry Michael announced he was leaving Washington after 16 years. A day ..read more

WASHINGTON (3-13) CAMPSITE: Ashburn, Virginia LAST YEAR: Five consecutive losses cost coach Jay Gruden his job and put Redskins in deep hole for interim replacement Bill Callahan. Rookie Dwayne Haskins took over as starting quarterback in Week 9 but couldn’t turn season around. Injuries piled up, lack of talent and missing playoffs for fourth consecutive year ultimately led to firing of Bruce Allen as team president. IMPORTANT ADDITIONS: Coach Ron Rivera, EDGE Chase Young, CBs Kendall Fuller and Ronald Darby, QB Kyle Allen, RB J.D. McKissic, OT Saahdiq Charles, LB Thomas Davis, S Sean Davis, T ..read more

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington’s NFL team brought back its former chief marketing officer, Terry Bateman, in that role Monday to oversee what it called in a news release its “name change and branding process.” Bateman originally was hired by Washington to oversee marketing in 2006. Brian Lafemina briefly took over business operations in 2018, before leaving later that year. Bateman has been advising club owner Daniel Snyder lately, but now gets the official title of executive vice president and chief marketing officer. After years of vowing to never drop his team’s dictionary-defined slur of a ..read more

A lawyer who worked on a trademark case against the Washington NFL team said the recent news surrounding the team’s name has renewed people’s thinking about other team names and images that may be racially insensitive. Michael Lindsay, a partner at the firm Dorsey & Whitney, and co-chair of its Commercial Litigation and Antitrust practices, worked on a case more than a decade ago in which the court ruled that the Washington NFL team’s trademark was disparaging to Native Americans. “The fact that a racial slur has been used for a long time just means that you’ve been insulting people for a ..read more

The NFL announced the league will wait until an investigation into allegations of workplace misconduct made against the Washington football team is complete before determining whether the club should be penalized. Attorney Beth Wilkinson of the D.C. law firm of Wilkinson and Walsh has been hired by the team to conduct an independent review of the organization’s protocols, including its culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct. The league statement, obtained by WTOP, said: These matters as reported are serious, disturbing and contrary to the NFL’s values. Everyone in the NFL h ..read more

Owner Dan Snyder has hired a District of Columbia law firm to review the Washington NFL team’s culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct. Beth Wilkinson of Wilkinson Walsh LLP confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the firm had been retained to conduct an independent review. ESPN was first to report Washington hiring the firm. It was not immediately clear what those misconduct allegations were. Within the past week, three members of the front office have left the organization. Director of player personnel Alex Santos, assistant Richard Mann II and longtime broadcast ..read more

A potential new name for Washington’s football team is the “Washington Red Wolves,” and it is gaining support online not only from fans but from wildlife conservation groups. “It sounds like there’s some good momentum,” said Ron Sutherland, chief scientist for the conservation group Wildlands Network in North Carolina, the only state where the red wolf still exists in the wild. The red wolf is an endangered species, and some advocates have said that naming an NFL team after the animal would boost efforts to save it. “The conservation community is pretty excited by the idea,” said Sutherland ..read more

After he spent 20 NFL seasons as a player for Washington, it could be argued Darrell Green bleeds Burgundy and Gold. But the legendary cornerback agrees it is time to change the name of the team that has been such an important part of his life. “I applaud [owner] Daniel Snyder for making this decision,” said Green. “I think that is the right decision. I think that it’s part of the tapestry in the nation of what I call the reconciling of history that has taken place. There are people who have been offended for so many years and that pain needs to be addressed. I’m glad that we can begin this pr ..read more

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma school board decided to appoint a committee that would reevaluate the district’s Redskins mascot amid conversations about removing controversial names and images across the country. Union Public Schools board members voted unanimously Monday to form the panel, a move that comes seventeen years after previous boards had voted unanimously to keep the mascot. Critics say the term and image of the mascot are racist because they historically referred to the scalp of a slain Native American sold for bounty. The committee, which will be announced next month, will inclu ..read more

When the University of North Dakota moved on from being the Fighting Sioux like Washington’s NFL team is doing from its old moniker, the new name could’ve been anything. More than 1,600 suggestions were submitted, ranging from the realistic to the ridiculous, like the “Abdominal Snowman.” Dan Snyder isn’t welcoming that long list of suggestions, though what he and the organization do next will determine how the team is perceived for decades. “Here’s where I think the fun begins and the work begins,” said Brand Federation founding partner and CEO Kelly O’Keefe, who was on North Dakota’s name ch ..read more