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October 12, 2021

Raiders Football Coach Resigns over Racist, Sexist and Homophobic Emails
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In sports news, Jon Gruden, the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders
football team, has resigned after an NFL investigation uncovered a
series of racist, sexist and homophobic emails he had written prior to
becoming the coach of the Raiders. In one email, Gruden used racist
terms to attack the head of the NFL players union, De Maurice Smith, who
is Black. Gruden was the third-highest-paid coach in the NFL, earning
$10 million a year.


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