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Washington is cleaning house just before training camp kicks off. The Commanders have fired tight ends coach Ben Steele following his arrest for driving while intoxicated over a month ago. The timing is blunt — two days out from camp — and sends a clear message that the organization isn't letting that one slide quietly into the offseason.
Meanwhile, off the field trouble isn't limited to the sidelines. Tony Romo has withdrawn from an upcoming golf tournament after being arrested last week in Wisconsin for allegedly operating a vehicle while intoxicated. The former Cowboys quarterback is forty-six years old and is due in court on September twenty-first. Not exactly the headlines you want attached to your post-playing career.
And a genuinely significant development out of college football — Stanford has become the first school to organize a player-led chapter of the College Football Players Association, a group pushing hard for unionization and collective bargaining rights. The CFBPA is now targeting other Atlantic Coast Conference schools to follow suit, which could build real momentum toward reshaping the power structure of the college game in two thousand twenty-six and beyond.
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