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So What's Actually New About The NFL's New Domestic Violence Policy?
The most important thing to note about the NFL's new rules on domestic violence is that they are neither new nor are they rules. They are words strung together in such a way that people will respond by saying, "Wow, the NFL takes domestic violence seriously." ...
NFL Announces Severe New Penalties For Domestic Violence
In a memo sent to the owners today, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced massive new punishments for all NFL personnel—not just players—who commit domestic violence offenses. Offenders will be suspended six games for a first offense, and receive an indefinite ban for a second, with the ability t...
Elena Delle Donne Outscores Entire Other Team In 4th-Quarter Comeback
The Chicago Sky completed a magnificent comeback to take the third and deciding game of the WNBA Eastern Conference semifinals, charging back from 17 points down with eight minutes remaining to top Atlanta 81-80....
30-Year-Old Ex-NFLer Takes Ice Bucket Challenge, Reveals He Has ALS
Tim Shaw, who played linebacker and special teams for four teams from 2007 through 2013, posted this video on the Titans' website today. Before completing the ice bucket challenge, he announces that this isn't just about raising awareness. Shaw, 30, reveals his own ALS diagnosis....
NFL Ref Refused To Work Washington Games Because Of Racist Name
Mike Carey was an NFL referee for 19 seasons before joining CBS to act as the network's rules analyst during NFL broadcasts. On Monday, Carey told the Washington Post's Mike Wise that he hasn't worked a Washington game since 2006, after specifically requesting that he not be assigned to their games ...
NFL Considering Increased Penalties For Domestic Violence
Hearing the backlash to the Ray Rice suspension, the NFL has reportedly had internal discussions about increasing the penalties for future cases of domestic violence. According to the Washington Post, the league has discussed a suspension of four to six game for a first offense and a potential year-...
Roger Goodell Dumps Ice Water On Head For ALS Awareness, Is Clueless
In an effort to make people hate Roger Goodell less, the person in charge of Roger Goodell's Twitter account posted a video of the commissioner doing the Ice Bucket Challenge today....
Orlando Scandrick Got Boned By The NFL's Stupid Drug Testing Policy
Dallas Cowboys cornerback Orlando Scandrick has been suspended for the first four games of the season after testing positive for PEDs. This is dumb, because while Scandrick did have drugs in his system when he was tested, if his version of events is true, there's no way that the drugs he took should...
Browns Fan Charged With Urinating On Art Modell's Grave
He thought it would be a funny video for his message board. He wasn't wrong, but that's the thing about internet videos: sometimes Baltimore County police watch them, and charge you with disorderly conduct in a cemetery....
Roger Goodell Supports Roger Goodell's Decision On Ray Rice's Suspension
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was at the Pro Football Hall of Fame today in Canton, Ohio, in his first public appearance since the league suspended Ray Rice two games for knocking out his fiancée, Janay Palmer, in an Atlantic City casino in February. He didn't say much. But in speaking at all, he t...
Why Roger Goodell's Meeting With Ray Rice And His Wife Was A Bad Idea
On June 16, Ray Rice and his wife, Janay, the woman he knocked out in an Atlantic City resort elevator, met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in his office. Four other men were present, according to Sports Illustrated's Peter King: Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome, team president Dick Cass, and NFL mucky-m...
ESPN Spent The Past 24 Hours Carrying Water For The NFL Over Ray Rice
On occasion, the invisible hand of the NFL taps ESPN on the shoulder and reminds the Worldwide Leader who really runs the show. We saw it with Playmakers. We saw it with the Frontline concussion documentary. More often than not, though, what you see is something like the video above, taken from the ...
How Do Other Notable NFL Suspensions Compare With Ray Rice's?
With news coming down that Ray Rice will be suspended a mere two games for knocking out his wife and then dragging her unconscious body out of an elevator, we figured it would be constructive to look back at the length and severity of other notable NFL suspensions from the past....
NFL Statement On Ray Rice Wants You To Believe It Came Down Hard On Him
Here's the full NFL statement confirming the two-game suspension and fine of an additional game check for Ray Rice, for knocking his then-fiancée unconscious in a casino elevator. It is fucking ballsy. ...
This Is A Browns Fan Pissing On Art Modell's Grave
How do you turn Art Modell into a sympathetic figure? You don an Ed Reed Ravens jersey (to fool people who might find a dude in a Browns jersey visiting Art Modell's grave suspicious, natch), hold your pee for a while, get yourself a catheter, and then dramatically reveal your hidden Lyle Alzado jer...
NFL Draft Says Bye Bye New York, Hello L.A. Or Chicago
We try really hard here to avoid being part of the NFL hype machine, but there is nothing else going on right now. So bear with us on this post. ...
Who Hugged Roger Goodell Longest At Last Night's Draft?
The NFL draft does gangbuster ratings, as football fans from around the country tune in to watch very large men embrace a very rich one. It's a Deadspin tradition to measure each draftee's hug time, and this year we've got a graph to go with it....
How Did Roger Goodell's Twitter Chat Go? Not So Well!
Roger Goodell apparently didn't see what happened to NCAA president Mark Emmert when he held an #AskEmmert Q&A on Twitter a few weeks ago, because Goodell hopped on his computer and hosted an #AskCommish chat with NFL fans today. Predictably, he ended up getting flooded with people saying hilarious ...
How To Cheat, Do Drugs, And Succeed At Baseball, By Dock Ellis
We're big fans of Dock Ellis, obviously, so we enjoyed this latest animated short, narrated by the man himself and excerpted from Donnell Alexander's Beyond Ellis D. Honestly, listening to Dock Ellis talk about drugs, cheating, and Gaylord Perry is almost as much fun as listening to Vin Scully talk...
The NFL Bans Goalpost Dunks
Sometimes, when an NFL player scores a touchdown in a game, he does a fun thing where he jumps into the air and "dunks" the football over the goalpost. Everyone likes it when players do this, because touchdowns are cool and so are dunks and so is watching a football player get really excited about t...