Sam Hurd Cocaine Charge May Create Months of Headaches for NFL
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Sam Hurd’s arrest on a federal charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine will cause months of public-relations headaches for the National Football League without driving fans away from the most-watched sport in the U.S., analysts said.
“They’re not turning off the TV, they’re not shying away from fantasy sports and they’re not giving up gambling on games because of this,” David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, said in a telephone interview yesterday.