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Off-field issues continue to dog NFL, Roger Goodell

Bob Glauber

Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and

Just when it appeared the NFL was settling down into the business of what it’s supposed to be about — actual football — two more reminders of the league’s thorny and complicated off-field issues surfaced last week to create more controversy.

First came the league’s threat of suspension for four players who have failed to cooperate with the NFL’s investigation into an Al Jazeera report last December that implicated the players in connection with the alleged distribution of performance-enhancing drugs.