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Cam Newton Gives Same Answer Five Times, Talks About "Donkey Kong Suh"
Cam Newton's media session today was entertaining, to say the least. Reporters asked Newton, who was held out of the Panthers' Week 1 game with a rib injury, about his health and a possible contract extension. Taking a page from Arian Foster, the Panthers quarterback pretty much ignored them....
Congress Asks Roger Goodell To Explain Himself
Members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell today, demanding more transparency of the league's handling of the Ray Rice case and of its standing policies regarding domestic violence....
Keith Olbermann: Roger Goodell Needs To Be Fired
Keith Olbermann had another chance to tear apart Roger Goodell tonight, not calling for his resignation, but for the NFL commissioner to be fired in light of today's AP report that the NFL received the Ray Rice elevator footage in April....
Goodell Was Wrong When He Said Casino Couldn't Have Given Up Rice Video
In his letter to owners yesterday, Roger Goodell addressed the question of why (in his version of events) the NFL never approached the Revel Casino about getting a copy of the surveillance tape....
Ravens GM: "What We Saw On The Video Was What Ray Said"
There's been a lot of back-and-forth—conducted via reporters' unnamed sources—over who knew what happened in that casino elevator and when. Now the Ravens braintrust has put that question to bed, acknowledging that Rice was up front with them all along....
Report: NFL Received Ray Rice Video In April
According to the Associated Press, the NFL in April received a DVD containing the surveillance video of Ray Rice slugging his fiancée, despite Roger Goodell claiming repeatedly that no one in the league had seen it before this week....
Here Are The Questions The NFL Should Answer
Earlier today, as part of our ongoing reporting of the Ray Rice story, we sent a list of questions to an NFL official. Some of them were raised by the league's investigation of Rice, others by league commissioner Roger Goodell's lawyerly performance in an interview with CBS yesterday....
Lalalala, The Ginger Hammer Can't Hear You!
Here is a story in three tweets....
Roger Goodell Tells Owners NFL Did Not Ask Casino For Ray Rice Video
Roger Goodell sent a letter to all team owners and presidents regarding his handling of the Ray Rice case. It is probably most helpful and most accurate to read this as the NFL getting its ducks in a row, and giving executives the league's official story and talking points. ...
To Prove He's Not Evil, Roger Goodell Pleads Incompetence
Roger Goodell and the NFL desperately need you to believe they did not see the Ray Rice tape until this week. We do not believe them, nor do those reporters who were hung out to dry by the league. If it emerges that the NFL did view the video before suspending Rice for just two games, well, now we'r...
Katie Nolan: NFL Won't Respect Women Until Sports Media Does The Same
Is there any real, tangible way female football fans can show Roger Goodell how grossly offensive his handling of Ray Rice's domestic violence was? Fox Sports' Katie Nolan starts out this video, posted today, with that tricky question. Then she diverges into deeper territory. ...
Roger Goodell: "No One In The NFL" Viewed Ray Rice Tape
Roger Goodell did a sit-down interview with CBS's Norah O'Donnell, highlights of which aired on CBS Evening News. The NFL commissioner maintained that no one in the league, "to my knowledge," had seen the video before Monday, despite some evidence to the contrary....
Ravens Owner Says Team Stopped Trying To Obtain Ray Rice Video
About 30 minutes ago, Ravens majority owner Steve Bisciotti sent an email to PSL holders in which he claims that no one from the Ravens saw the video of Ray Rice striking his fiancée, and halted attempts to obtain the video after formal requests to the Revel Casino, police, and prosecutors were unsu...
Woman Who Took Jerry Jones Pics Files Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Assault
Jana Weckerly, the woman who took those gross photos of Jerry Jones posing with some strippers and finally emerged last week via a statement from her lawyer, has now filed a civil suit against Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys alleging that Jones sexually assaulted her. Some of the allegations wi...
Don't Forget: Ray Rice's Attorney Is A Piece Of Shit
Until the elevator video was released on Monday, Ray Rice's attorney, Michael Diamondstein, was part of the small but not exclusive fraternity of people—Rice, Janay Palmer, cops, prosecutors, casino security, TMZ reporters, Deadspin tipsters, and allegedly not a soul from the NFL—who knew what preci...