The N.Y. DAILY NEWS' Bob Raissman notes Fox' Joe Buck, who will call tonight's Super Bowl, had a nerve in one of his vocal chords break down two years ago, but "came out the other end with his voice intact, a greater appreciate of his job, a fiance, Michelle Beisner, and a feeling of being untethered from his past."
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cover story of today's N.Y. Times Magazine examines the breadth of NFL-related gambling and fantasy sports.
The L.A. TIMES' Emamdjomeh & Bensinger write the NFL "scored a huge victory in California" with last year's law that bars most pro athletes from filing workers' compensation claims, but that win "has come at a cost." Players from around the country have since filed "more than 1,000 injury claims just prior to a September deadline -- a huge influx that could cost the nation's top professional sports leagues hundreds of millions of dollars to resolve."
The N.Y. TIMES' Nate Taylor estimates there are perhaps two dozen female NFL agents, and writes it is "not hard to understand why there are so few." Athlete representation is the "very definition of an old boys' club, a sharp-elbowed, cutthroat world, and few women are willing to put up with the skepticism and sexism that confront them at every turn."
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