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NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football League, will sit down for an exclusive Q&A session with an audience of SiriusXM listeners at the SiriusXM studios on October 22. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101014/NY82093LOGO) During the broadcast event Commissioner Goodell will answer questions from audience members in studio with him, discuss current league...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The NFL has a crisis on its hands. The uproar over the continued use of the replacement referees as now reached beyond a fevered pitch. Before last weekend, the replacement referees were only in over their heads. As of the end of the Monday night game, they are an outright disaster. The botched call seen around the world cost the Green Bay Packers a game against the Seattle Seahawks Monday night. If this does not serve as a watershed...

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Super Bowl is coming to Texas and bringing the biggest stars from across the country for the biggest sporting event of the year. The National Domestic Violence Hotline, based in Austin, Texas, is pleased the leader of the NFL, Commissioner Roger Goodell, is joining the National Domestic Violence Hotline to help bring awareness to domestic violence and to celebrate the 15th Anniversary. The Commissioner joins Dallas Cowboys superstar Jason...

SEATTLE, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Brain Injury Association of Washington is pleased to announce that National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell will be attending the 4th Annual Brain Injury Association of Washington's Gala, Auction & Dinner as their Honorary Chair. As a sign of mutual respect for the leadership that both the NFL and the Brain Injury Association of Washington are taking in elevating the discussion and awareness of the effects of concussions on both...

SEATTLE, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Richard G. Ellenbogen of the University of Washington School of Medicine and Dr. Hunt Batjer of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have been named the new co-chairs of the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Medical Committee, Commissioner Roger Goodell announced today. Drs. Batjer and Ellenbogen are each the professor and chairman of the department of neurological surgery at their respective medical schools. Commissioner Goodell also...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Tuesday that disciplinary action against two New Orleans Saints defensive ends has been placed on hold. Goodell said Charles Grant and Will Smith will not face immediate disciplinary action for their involvement in an ongoing battle over 2008 suspensions incurred for banned substance violations. Goodell's announcement came after last Friday's ruling by an appellate court in Minnesota that favored Vikings defensive linemen Kevin and Pat Williams in...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell ruled Thursday that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick will be eligible in Week 3 of the regular season. The decision cut Vick's absence in half. Originally, Goodell said the convicted dog-fighter would not play until Week 6. He made the decision following a meeting with Vick at his New Jersey hotel room before Thursday's pre-season contest against the New York Jets. He has a better feel for the challenges ahead of him, Goodell told reporters at his...

The NFL Competition Committee said a football hitting the scoreboard over the Dallas Cowboys' new field will result in an immediate stoppage of the play. Dallas had its first game at the $1.15 billon Cowboys Stadium last week. Tennessee punter A.J. Trapasso hit a scoreboard that is suspended over the playing surface with a kick, leading the NFL to ask for a ruling on the situation. A release Friday said that any ball that hits the video board, supporting wires, sky cam or other object will...

Michael Vick, who sat out a two-year NFL suspension for a dogfighting conviction, will play Thursday for Philadelphia in a home exhibition against Jacksonville. Eagles Coach Andy Reid said Tuesday Vick will have the opportunity to play Thursday but didn't detail how the quarterback would be used. Vick was suspended by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in August 2007 after the player, then a member of the Atlanta Falcons, pleaded guilty to charges related to a dogfighting operation on property...

Quarterback Michael Vick, now a member of the Philadelphia Eagles, said Friday he was glad to have a second chance in the NFL and I won't disappoint. Vick spoke at a news conference a day after the Eagles signed him to a contract reportedly worth $1.6 million the first year with an option for a second year at $5.2 million. The 29-year-old former Atlanta Falcons star joined the Eagles less than three months after his release from a federal prison, where he served 18 months of a 23-month...