In return to NFL coverage, Dianna Russini doesn’t address Mike Vrabel relationship

Diana Russini returned to covering the NFL on Wednesday with a new show, but did not address the relationship with New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel that cost her her perch as one of the league’s most high-profile reporters.

Seven months after the New York Post published photos of Russini and Vrabel together at an Arizona resort, and Russini resigned from her job at The Athletic amid an investigation by the outlet into her previous coverage, she announced this week a new show hosted by BetUS, an online betting sportsbook.

“The Russini Report” was scheduled to air live at 12 p.m. ET Wednesday but did not air for at least 45 minutes, when a full version of the episode was uploaded. On social media, some users said that the BetUS site would not load, or that the stream had crashed. “Well… you broke it,” wrote the X account associated with Russini’s show.

In a column on the BetUS website, Russini had written that “I have a lot to say” about her seven months away from coverage of the NFL. But when her show began, before appearances by guests including former NFL coach Bill Parcells, Russini did not address Vrabel, the…

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