IRVING, Texas (AP) — Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday the NFL won’t pay for video evidence in cases involving domestic violence, and he defended the league’s handling of those investigations.
During a recent fan forum Baltimore Ravens Owner Steve Bisciotti admitted that he’s considering factors, other than just football, when it comes to deciding whether his team will sign anthem-protesting Quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
According to the Sporting News, “After conducting an investigation into the NFL’s handling of the Ray Rice case, Mueller, a former director of the FBI, exonerated commissioner Roger Goodell in January 2015. The investigation determined that no one at the league had received video of Rice punching his wife in a casino elevator before the video was published by TMZ. The report, however, also found the NFL did not aggressively pursue new information about the Rice case.”
After video emerged of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée in an elevator, many suspected that Ray Rice would never work in the NFL again. Well, those people got it wrong.
The sports media has a unique, and never before heard of theory about why the NFL handled the domestic violence case involving white New York Giants kicker Josh Brown differently than the way they handled the domestic violence cases of black players like Ray Rice and Greg Hardy.
The Friday fallout to New York Giants kicker Josh Brown being left in the United States as the team traveled to London for their game Sunday because of newly released information about domestic violence now has sports pundits questioning why
Former Baltimore Ravens running back and now free agent Ray Rice told TMZ Sports Sunday that he is still hoping for another opportunity in the NFL. Rice, 28, has been out of the league since he was released by the Ravens in
In a fawning interview Bill Simmons conducted with Barack Obama for GQ, the president lets readers know the inside-baseball secrets of his sports-minded mind, including his desire to own an NBA franchise, his belief that he and Aaron Rodgers share a kindred unflappability, and his disbelief that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell makes $44 million a year.
For the first month in six years, the police arrested not a single NFL player. Hooray?
Former Baltimore Ravens running back and domestic abuser Ray Rice spoke sat down with ESPN’s Jemele Hill to discuss his life after the crime and he claimed to be a “rehabilitated man.” The former all-pro running back was caught on camera dragging
A group that works to prevent domestic violence says that the NFL should give former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice a second chance.
Recent evidence from police records have been released about U.S. Women’s Soccer goalie Hope Solo, which makes it appear she not only beat up the 6’8 270 pound son of her half-sister, but was also belligerent to the police while being arrested. Amid this report,
Appearing as a guest on ESPN2’s “Olbermann,” host of Slate.com’s podcast “The Gist” and contributor to NPR Mike Pesca addressed former Chicago Bears defensive lineman Ray McDonald’s domestic violence history and his recent dismissal from the Bears following an arrest
On Thursday, Judge Michael A. Donio of New Jersey dismissed domestic violence charges against Ray Rice because the former Baltimore Ravens running back completed a pretrial intervention.
The one-year anniversary of Ray Rice’s domestic violence video being released has come and gone, and Ray Rice is seeking new employment. The three-time Pro Bowl running back was released by the Baltimore Ravens in September and reinstated by the
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, appointed by the NFL as a special investigator to look into the Ray Rice affair, reports that he discovered nothing to substantiate charges that the league viewed video of Ray Rice knocking out his fiancée prior to meting out punishment.
Attorneys for over a dozen female celebrities who had private photos stolen and leaked online during the nude photo hacking scandal are reportedly threatening legal action against Google for failing to remove the images from Google-based sites. Hollywood Attorney Martin
The NFL’s 32 owners approved a new personal conduct policy on Wednesday in the wake of the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson controversies. The policy empowers the league to conduct their own investigations independent from law enforcement and suspend players
Acknowledging that “domestic violence is a real issue in today’s society,” Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, reinstated to the NFL on Friday, wants his life back and a second chance to play professional football. In an interview with NBC’s
Janay Rice, who was knocked unconscious by her then-fiance Ray Rice in February, appeared on the Today show to issue a public statement that Rice, now her husband, had never abused her before the February incident and has not abused
Janay Rice, the wife of NFL running back Ray Rice claimed that the Baltimore Ravens “suggested” she apologize for her role in the domestic violence incident where her husband knocked her unconscious in an elevator during an interview with Matt
On Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough railed against the news media for its coverage of the Ferguson, MO controversy. The tipping point for Scarborough was the St. Louis Rams “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture before Sunday’s game.
Ray Rice has won the appeal of his indefinite suspension from the NFL. The former Baltimore Ravens running back can sign with any team immediately. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell initially suspended Rice for two games for a violent assault on
NEW YORK (AP) — Will Katy Perry be a firework at the Super Bowl? Will she show them what she’s worth? Will she let her colors burst? NFL announced late Sunday — after rumors swirled for weeks — that the
Less than two days after exploding for 201 rushing yards on Sunday Night Football, unheralded power back Jonas Gray exploded onto the cover of Sports Illustrated. Rushing for four touchdowns in primetime television tends to have that effect on a
On a day when ESPN’s Outside the Lines exposed more than two-dozen cases since 2000 of NFL players guilty of domestic violence not missing a down in the league, the four-letter network earlier this week hired retired cage fighter Chael
Former NFL star Ricky Williams, who rushed for over 10,000 yards in his career, insisted on Jim Rome on Showtime that Adrian Peterson didn’t do anything wrong to his son. Peterson, who also belongs to the 10,000-yard club, pleaded no
Appearing in a promotional cypher for an upcoming release on his own Shady Records, Eminem raps a line about punching Lana del Rey in the face “twice like Ray Rice.” In the promotion for the Shady XV compilation album, which
For the last couple of years we can’t stop hearing about ridiculous sexy costumes. Sexy Pizza. Sexy Ghostbuster. Sexy Mouse. Even Sexy Wednesday Addams. This has prompted a lot of articles from feminists with phrases like “we should be asking
After his ban from the NFL for domestic violence nearly two months ago, former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice is hot again. Only this time as a Halloween costume. And it is a trend that his wife is not at
The National Football League banned Ray Rice over an incident of domestic violence caught on video. But if his appeal of the ruling wins, Rice could be back playing football this season. Former U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones serves as
No one knows for certain what Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston intends to do in the face of an alleged sexual assault on a classmate and possible autograph violations, however, the best advice to him may come from one source who
The arrests of Aaron Hernandez, Ray Rice, and Adrian Peterson have reinforced the perception of the NFL as the National Felons League. But police actually arrest NFL players at about one-eighth the clip of the rate for comparable men in
In light of the Ray Rice episode, it’s hard to imagine that the NFL would once again undershoot on a player punishment–and yet that’s exactly what has happened in the Vontaze Burfict “ankle gate” case. Amidst a consensus among sports
How to stop as pervasive and destructive a problem as domestic violence? Public-service announcements, of course. The same powerful force that ended the nation’s drug problem through a fried-egg visual in the ’80s and abolished pollution through the arresting image
Breitbart Sports Editor Daniel Flynn argued that the problems facing the NFL have been overhyped by the media and created the false perception of an “epidemic” of legal problems for NFL players on Saturday’s “Smerconish” on CNN. “With domestic abuse
Katy Perry has agreed to play the Super Bowl halftime show according to numerous reports. The event takes place at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on February 1. “I would be honored, of course,” Perry told ESPN’s GameDay
The Team USA backup for American women’s star goalkeeper Hope Solo suggests that instead of celebrating Solo’s recent record of 73 shutouts, U.S. Soccer should be concentrating on shutting out domestic violence. Jillian Loyden, founder of the Jillian Loyden Foundation and
Lyvette Crespo, who shot and killed her husband Daniel Crespo, Mayor of Bell Gardens, California, Tuesday afternoon, has hired a lawyer who communicated that Mrs. Crespo fired in defense of the couple’s 19-year-old son. The son reportedly intervened when the
“I used to beat people up,” Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson writes in an editorial on Derek Jeter’s The Players Tribune website, which launched earlier this week. “I used to beat people up a lot.” Given Wilson’s squeaky clean image,
