TAKEAWAYS: Dianna Russini Resigns from Athletic | Providence Journal’s Bill Koch - 4/15 (Hour 2)
Toucher & Hardy
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4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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(00:00) The guys open the hour discussing the latest Dianna Russini situation as the NFL insider has resigned from the Athletic
(20:33.729) BILL KOCH from the Providence Journal joins Toucher & Hardy to weigh in on the current state of the Boston Red Sox
(31:42.731) Callers weigh in!
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| 0:00.0 | And we're back. Toucher and Hardy on the Sportshouse. |
| 0:04.0 | Diana Rossini is resigning from The Athletic. |
| 0:06.0 | Last week, the New York Post published pictures of Rossini and Patriots coach Mike Vrabel at a resort in Arizona holding hands and embracing. |
| 0:15.0 | Both are married. The athletic was conducting a review of Rusini's work. |
| 0:19.0 | She says, quote, not because I accept the narrative that has been constructed around this episode, |
| 0:24.7 | but because I refuse to lend it further oxygen or to let it define me or my career. |
| 0:31.3 | Diana Rossini, who sent us pastries one day because she thought we were making too much sport of her |
| 0:37.2 | for an interview she did with Kevin O'Connell that we just made fun of for being corny. |
| 0:43.0 | She obviously was in Sedona, Arizona, where Mike Vrable apparently had drawn, drove two hours |
| 0:49.8 | each way to spend the day with her. |
| 0:52.4 | They were photographed, and on page six in the New York Post. |
| 0:56.1 | The photos were put up and it led to an investigation through the athletic on Diana |
| 1:02.1 | Rossini and her, the house and wise of this trip, Diana Rossini said that it was her and three |
| 1:09.9 | of her friends that were on a hiking trip, |
| 1:12.3 | and Vrable came up with his friends, |
| 1:14.7 | and somehow these friends have never been identified or heard from, |
| 1:20.0 | and so she has chosen to resign. |
| 1:23.3 | Okay. |
| 1:24.7 | Her resignation letter is a lesson in martyrdom. |
| 1:31.7 | She says, Dear Stephen, who of course is Stephen Ginsburg, |
| 1:35.5 | Alan Ginsberg's cousin. |
| 1:37.4 | She's howling. |
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