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By Dianna Russini, Rebecca Tauber and Lauren Merola The NFL Players Association named David White, the former head of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, as its new interim executive director, the union announced Sunday night. The announcement comes after Lloyd Howell Jr. stepped down on July 17 following several controversies surrounding his leadership. ​​”I am …

It’s becoming harder and harder to keep up with the various twists and turns in the disintegration of Lloyd Howell’s two-year run as the NFL Players Association’s executive director. Here’s something that seems odd, to say the least. On Thursday, ESPN reported on the existence of an internal disagreement regarding whether the NFLPA board of players representatives knew that Howell’s …

Don Van Natta Jr. Close Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN Senior Writer Host and co-executive producer of the new ESPN series, “Backstory” Member of three Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national, explanatory and public service journalism Author of three books, including New York Times best-selling “First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from Taft to Bush” 24-year newspaper career …