Football Page 928 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Evan Mathis Goes In On Chip Kelly
Will I ever get tired of former Eagles players talking shit about Chip Kelly? No, I don’t think I will....
Report: Arbitrator Rules NFL Hid As Much As $120 Million In Revenue From Players
NFL players will collectively receive around $50 million, and the 2016 salary cap will increase by around $1.5 million, after an arbitrator ruled that the league misclassified up to $120 million in revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal....
Court Rules Video Of Joe Mixon's Assault Should Be Public Record
The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals ruled today that surveillance video which shows Sooners running back Joe Mixon punching a woman in the face is considered part of the public record and must be released when requested, because the recording is part of the court file on Mixon’s case. However, it wi...
Imagine Being One Of The 1,600 People Who Didn't Realize They Were On The Gronk Cruise
There is a lot of debate in media circles over the use, and over-use, of unnamed sources—when it’s appropriate to grant anonymity, how it affects a story’s credibility, and how best to weigh access with accountability. This, from the Boston Globe’s account of Rob Gronkowski’s party cruise, justifies...
Report: Former Cowboys Running Back Joseph Randle Arrested And Charged With Battery
According to a report from TMZ Sports, which was later corroborated by the Dallas Morning News, former Cowboys running back Joseph Randle was arrested this morning in Sedgwick County, Kansas and charged with three counts of battery, one count of criminal damage to property, and one count of drug pos...
Records: Trainer That Sued Peyton Manning May Have Reported Him For Academic Fraud In 1994
The biggest sports story since the Super Bowl has been the renewed focus on allegations that Peyton Manning sexually assaulted trainer Jamie Naughright in 1996 while at the University of Tennessee. Manning contends that the incident was a mooning, while Naughright says he pushed his butt and genital...
Former NFL QB Max Hall Says He Was An Alcoholic And Drug Addict
Former BYU and Arizona Cardinals quarterback Max Hall says his arrest for shoplifting and cocaine possession in 2014 forced him to deal with his addictions to Oxycontin, cocaine, and alcohol....
Judge Rejects Darren Sharper's Plea Deal As Too Lenient
It was baffling that Darren Sharper’s plea deal, for pleading guilty to drugging and raping women in four different states, amounted to just nine years of prison time. It was baffling that the NFL safety turned serial rapist could have been a free man by 2023, and it was baffling that the feds, with...
Reports: Tennessee Football Player Arrested For Punching, Choking Woman
Tennessee defensive tackle Alexis Johnson—a junior college transfer who enrolled in January—was arrested Wednesday night and is currently being held in Knox County jail on a 12-hour hold, according to jail records. The Chattanooga Times Free Press obtained the arrest report, and report that Johnson ...
How Tennessee’s Head Trainer Took Control Of The Allegations Against Peyton Manning
After Jamie Naughright said she was sexually harassed by Peyton Manning, the first person she called at the University of Tennessee was head trainer Mike Rollo. The lifetime Volunteer immediately set out to “fix it.” According to Naughright, no one did more than Rollo to sculpt the long-prevailing n...
Allen Robinson Got A Tattoo Of His Own Highlight-Reel Catch
If you’re a Penn State fan, you probably remember current Jaguars receiver Allen Robinson’s leaping catch that set up the game-tying touchdown in the 2013 Homecoming game against Michigan. From this point forward, you will also remember that catch if you ever see Robinson with his shirt off:...
Police: Montee Ball Threw His Girlfriend Into A Table
NFL free-agent running back Montee Ball threw his girlfriend into a table in their hotel room before he was arrested and charged with battery, according to a Madison (Wisc.) PD report....
Dean Spanos Isn't Done Crapping On Chargers Fans Just Yet
San Diego Chargers owner Dean Spanos has already decided to torture his fan base by keeping his team in San Diego for one more season before deciding, next January, if he will move it to L.A. for the 2017 season. Based on Spanos’s recent comments, he’s going to ramp up the torment by dangling the po...
Jerod Mayo Retires At Age 29
Jerod Mayo was probably not going to be a Patriot next season, at least not at his current salary. The linebacker has missed the ends of the last three seasons with injuries, and carried the team’s second biggest cap hit behind Tom Brady, and the Pats were expected to release him or demand a signifi...
Sheriff: Tennessee Football Player Sent Pics Of 'Sexual Organ’ To Person He Thought Was 14-Year-Old Girl
University of Tennessee offensive lineman Mack Crowder was arrested in Pinellas County, Fla., on Tuesday, and charged with a number of child sex crimes....
Roger Goodell Made $34.1 Million In 2014
If you have a problem with Roger Goodell making more money than any football player, your problem’s not with the NFL specifically, but with executive bonus culture, and the notion that it seemingly isn’t tied to the company’s success. In which case Goodell and the owners will happily point to the fa...
How Tennessee’s Sexual Harassment Allegations Caught Up With Peyton Manning 20 Years Later
In 1996, the summer before Peyton Manning’s junior season at the University of Tennessee, with his Vols a national championship contender, associate trainer Jamie Whited—later Jamie Naughright, after her divorce—filed an employment discrimination complaint. In that complaint, filed with the Tennesse...
No One Showed Up To That Anti-Beyoncé Rally, Which Might've Been A Prank To Begin With
A whole bunch of Twitter eggs took offense with Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime performance of “Formation,” which used imagery inspired by the Black Panthers. It made excellent copy for the insatiable content mill which we all must feed—it’s good and healthy to make fun of stupid people—but it didn’t ...
So How Will The Skins Screw Things Up With Kirk Cousins?
One of the weirdest things to happen this NFL season was Kirk Cousins’s transformation from bad quarterback to “Hold on, Kirk Cousins might actually be kind of good?” This should be a good thing for Washington, which could use nothing more than to have a functional quarterback fall into its lap afte...
Von Miller Explains Gravitational Waves On <i>Saturday Night Live</i>
Super Bowl MVP Von Miller made a guest appearance on SNL as Weekend Update’s science correspondent, and he’s not totally unqualified. As host Michael Che noted, Miller studied science at Texas A&M. (Poultry science.)...