NFL Reporter Resigns From Job After Questionable Photos With Patriots’ Head Coach
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 23 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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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Wednesday, April 15th. |
| 0:09.5 | And just a week ago, pictures were published of an NFL coach with an NFL reporter. |
| 0:17.8 | Today, that NFL reporter is out of a job. Not because she was fired over the pictures, |
| 0:25.1 | but she has resigned. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. with Robs, we need to be |
| 0:30.6 | careful. We need to be kind. We need to be as respectful as possible in a situation like this |
| 0:34.8 | where so many lives and so many families right now are upended. |
| 0:39.4 | But Robs, this was a story that caught fire. |
| 0:43.3 | How much had you been keeping up with this story about New England Patriots coach Mike Grable and NFL reporter Rusini is her name, Diana Rusini? |
| 0:53.3 | But how closely? How much was this in your |
| 0:55.9 | orbit? Sometimes you're aware of some of the stuff more than I am. I was aware of it. I was reading |
| 0:59.9 | about it. I saw the photos, but it really didn't rise to the level until she resigned. That's when I |
| 1:06.1 | really took notice because this wasn't somebody who was fired from her job or disciplined. There is an |
| 1:11.9 | investigation that is continuing, by the way. She worked for the athletic, which is the New York |
| 1:16.8 | Times owned sports publication, a very well respected. This is a big deal. This was a big job. |
| 1:23.6 | She was the senior NFL reporter. And so for her to resign on her own absolutely caught my attention. |
| 1:31.9 | Well, that is now. |
| 1:33.3 | But I'm saying I wasn't keeping up with. |
| 1:35.4 | I don't know how much of this story was bubbling. |
| 1:37.7 | It was absolutely a tabloid story. |
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