NFL Reporter Resigns From Job After Questionable Photos With Patriots’ Head Coach
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The senior NFL reporter for the New York Time’s sports publication, The Athletic, has resigned her position because of the “media frenzy” around photos published showing her with New England Patriots Head Coach, Mike Vrabel. 42-year-old Dianna Russini, a married mom of two, is seen holding hands and hugging Vrabel at a resort in Sedona, Arizona. Initially, both Russini and Vrabel have made statements suggesting the photos are misleading and taken out of context, but Russini made the surprising move to resign from her prominent position.
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| 0:36.0 | It is Wednesday, April 15th, and just a week ago, pictures were published of an NFL coach with an NFL reporter. |
| 0:46.6 | Today, that NFL reporter is out of a job. Not because she was fired over the pictures, but she has resigned. And with that, welcome |
| 0:56.3 | to this episode of Amy and T.J. with Robs, we need to be careful. We need to be kind. We need to be |
| 1:01.3 | as respectful as possible in a situation like this where so many lives and so many families |
| 1:06.1 | right now are upended. But Robs, this was a story that caught fire. How much had you been keeping |
| 1:14.1 | up with this story about New England Patriots coach Mike Grable and NFL reporter Rusini is her name, |
| 1:21.5 | Diana Rusini? But how closely, how much was this in your orbit? Sometimes you're aware of some of |
| 1:26.6 | the stuff more than I am. I was aware of it. |
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