As Dallas begins sorting through candidates, the Rooney Rule will surely become a key topic of discussion. What exactly is the Rooney Rule, and how have the Cowboys fared under the policy in the past?

The NFL installed the Rooney Rule in 2003 with the best of intentions behind it. Within the last few years, the league has tweaked it multiple times to strengthen the instrument known across ...

The legacy we’re talking about here is the Rooney Rule. The rule basically says that NFL teams must interview at least one ethnic minority or female candidate for the HC or senior football ...

Ryan Clark, a one-time Super Bowl champion and current ESPN NFL analyst, ripped the New England Patriots for how they complied with the Rooney Rule during their head-coaching search. The NFL’s ...

Mike Vrabel landed the job, but some people, including former NFL executive Rod Graves, aren’t convinced the team followed the spirit of the Rooney Rule. Did the Patriots check the diversity box ...

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said this week that the Rooney Rule and other DEI efforts "make the NFL better" but two men who helped write the rule say a paucity of Black offensive coordinators ...

The Rooney Rule was meant to increase the number of minority interviews – and thus actual opportunity for those coaches – in the NFL. In many ways it has achieved just that. Yet, some teams ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share The NFL’s Rooney Rule is a worthy idea clumsily executed. Established in 2003 and tweaked in 2021, it requires teams to interview at least two minority candidates ...

The NFL's Rooney Rule has been in place for more than 20 years as a way to help ensure that minority coaching candidates get a fair shot at jobs. But as time has gone on it's increasingly become a ...

A professor of sports management explores the underlying reasons there is just one Black head coach and one Latino head coach left in the NFL when most of its players are Black. What HR Is Doing ...

The controversial mechanics of the NFL’s Rooney Rule are once again coming into the spotlight. This time, it’s the New England Patriots who are the subject of widespread criticism about ...