Married NY Times sports reporter viral after being busted allegedly having an affair with married NFL coach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did the NYT suddenly change their tune after initially backing up Russini?

Because it's a conflict of interest, violates codes of conduct, and is unethical? Just a wild guess.

She is the highest paid reporter at the NYT. It is unethical. Her contract runs through August. This was not her first incident. There have been two known previous incidents with head coaches.

booking.

How do you know she is the highest paid? It's shocking that a trashy sports reporter is the best compensated.

And I don't have a position on what went on the athlete. I say trashy because I watched the highlights reel of her saying mean things about her husband. That is trashy.

A lot of the pro sports world is full of trash humans. My state also has an issue with football coaches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did the NYT suddenly change their tune after initially backing up Russini?

Because it's a conflict of interest, violates codes of conduct, and is unethical? Just a wild guess.

She is the highest paid reporter at the NYT. It is unethical. Her contract runs through August. This was not her first incident. There have been two known previous incidents with head coaches.

Yeah, but the paper’s first reaction was to defend her. It’s clear now that all was not kosher.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d question her capacity to cover the NFL and his team with integrity.

She also uses her media credentials via NY Times to vote on league awards, including coach of the year. Guess who won that award last season? Mr Vrabel…

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did the NYT suddenly change their tune after initially backing up Russini?

Because it's a conflict of interest, violates codes of conduct, and is unethical? Just a wild guess.

She is the highest paid reporter at the NYT. It is unethical. Her contract runs through August. This was not her first incident. There have been two known previous incidents with head coaches.

How do you know her salary? She makes more than NYT columnists like David Brooks and Maureen Dowd?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did the NYT suddenly change their tune after initially backing up Russini?

Because it's a conflict of interest, violates codes of conduct, and is unethical? Just a wild guess.

It’s not like they didn’t know that to start with.

This was her reputation all along, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d question her capacity to cover the NFL and his team with integrity.

She also uses her media credentials via NY Times to vote on league awards, including coach of the year. Guess who won that award last season? Mr Vrabel…

It wasn’t close
https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-vrabel-patriots-coach-of-the-year-2025

[Anonymous]

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His wife looks like a linebacker

Hi Dianna.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, if my husband ran into an old female friend while on a trip, he might hug her hello. He might hang out and catch up with her beside the pool as well for a while. He would also probably text me from the place to tell me he ran into her and possibly even FaceTime me with both of them together to briefly catch up. But I’m also not generally suspicious even though my husband has female friends — I’m friends with them too at this point.

That said, if my husband’s pics were published like this, and he has mentioned nothing to me, I would be asking him some hard questions. And I agree the one where they have their fingers clasped is the weirdest one. Seems awkward if you are actually just friendly with someone.

+1. I would not care about pictures of my husband hugging an old friend, but, I also think my husband would text me and let me know they had run into each other. I think the picture of them in the pool together is weird (looks intimate, though not sexual). But my husband and I don't seem to get to take business trips where we get "pool time."

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I'd say affair. They picked that couples resort because it seems relatively private and banked on no guests there recognizing who they were. I know I would have no clue who they are, and I'm guessing most couples at such a resort are more focused on each other than trying to guess if another couple is famous. On top of that, anyone who can afford a $2500/night resort probably values privacy and is not going to go makng paparazzi photos and trying to sell them for $20k.

And in public, most of their activities were not too suspicious on their own, like being in a hot tub, but the article notes they left the pool separately so they were trying to be a little careful in public, but slipped up. Probably you feel like it's pretty private when on the rooftop of a bungalow so are going to let your guard down.

Put it all together, and that's affair. How do I know? I have (unfortunately) some experience with this. The way to act in public is no touching at all so it can be played off as a business meeting/dinner. All displays of affection are in the hotel room with shades closed, or perhaps in the elevator if you check for security cameras first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a sad (but accurate) scene from King of the Hill where Hank explains to his son that males are expected to have sex but females are not. "That's called the double standard, Bobby. Don't knock it. We got the long end of the stick on that one."

It's funny how it's mostly women here enforcing patriarchal sexual norms here by trashing this woman.

Someone upthread complained about college wannabe female sports reporters sleeping with the whole football team. If a male student reporter slept with the entire school cheerleading squad a statue would be erected in his honor.

[Anonymous]

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+1. I would not care about pictures of my husband hugging an old friend, but, I also think my husband would text me and let me know they had run into each other. I think the picture of them in the pool together is weird (looks intimate, though not sexual). But my husband and I don't seem to get to take business trips where we get "pool time."

DW and I have a running joke when I'm packing for business trips. Some of the conferences are held at resorts and if I ever pack my swimsuit, we know I'll never use it, so I don't bother any more. Not that I wouldn't mind a swim or dip in the hot tub, but I'm so busy with meetings and networking events that I simply have no time to use any of the hotel's facilities. She even gets a good laugh when I facetime her from my hotel room -- king size bed and one side is slept in, and the other side is perfectly made up.

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There is no way she’s the highest paid reporter at the NYT. Not sure where that came from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a sad (but accurate) scene from King of the Hill where Hank explains to his son that males are expected to have sex but females are not. "That's called the double standard, Bobby. Don't knock it. We got the long end of the stick on that one."

It's funny how it's mostly women here enforcing patriarchal sexual norms here by trashing this woman.

Someone upthread complained about college wannabe female sports reporters sleeping with the whole football team. If a male student reporter slept with the entire school cheerleading squad a statue would be erected in his honor.

In this particular case, the man violated vows to his wife. But how did he violate his professional obligations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a sad (but accurate) scene from King of the Hill where Hank explains to his son that males are expected to have sex but females are not. "That's called the double standard, Bobby. Don't knock it. We got the long end of the stick on that one."

It's funny how it's mostly women here enforcing patriarchal sexual norms here by trashing this woman.

Someone upthread complained about college wannabe female sports reporters sleeping with the whole football team. If a male student reporter slept with the entire school cheerleading squad a statue would be erected in his honor.

Actually no. It's promiscuity in general. Women don't generally like "slutty" guys either. They spread diseases and infidelity.

The difference is that coach is not running his mouth about his wife where people can make a highlights reel.

Also, cheerleaders barely register on the scale of big money pro sports. That's why your hypothetical is so far off-track. There are no "scoops" to be gotten.