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Report: TMZ Paid Around $100,000 For The Ray Rice TapesToday, the New Yorker published its long-awaited (in media circles, at least) deep dive into how gossip juggernaut TMZ does business. There’s plenty of information to pick through, but the details of how TMZ obtained videos of Ray Rice’s assault on his wife Janay should be of particular interest to ...

Ravens Deny Giving Janay Rice A Script Before May Press Conference The Baltimore Ravens have released a statement denying that they gave Janay Rice a script for the infamous May press conference in which she apologized for her role in getting knocked out by Ray Rice, as well as denying that they told either Janay or Ray that she should apologize....

Peter King Is A Goddamn Embarrassment SI.com's Peter King, the most powerful NFL writer in the business, sees his job as flattering other powerful people so that they'll allow him to uncritically pass on whatever they'd like to have passed on. He's very good at it, as the incredible correction buried a couple of thousand words into hi...

Janay Rice Says Ravens Told Her To Apologize At That Press Conference

The first half of a two-part interview with Ray and Janay Rice aired on this morning's episode of the Today Show. Ray Rice wasn't present for this portion of the interview, and instead we saw Matt Lauer conduct a sit-down with Janay and her mother. The most revelatory part of the conversation was wh...

What Happened When Janay Rice Met With The NFL In June?

The NFL has consistently shown throughout the Ray Rice saga it has no idea how to deal with domestic assault, perhaps not more obviously than when the league interviewed Janay and Ray Rice at the same time during a June 16th hearing. Questioning the victim of domestic assault in the presence of her ...

Ex-NFL Wives: We Felt Pressure To Keep Quiet About Domestic Violence

Two former NFL wives talked to the Washington Post about why they stayed in abusive relationships, and both describe in the story published Friday how the league, the union, coaches, and even cops encouraged them to stay silent. They say not to expect the newfound focus on domestic violence to make ...

The Only Thing Unusual About Ray And Janay Rice Is That Anyone Noticed

One of my first homicide stories as a young crime reporter was about a woman killed by her boyfriend. One of my last stories as a crime reporter was about a woman killed by her husband. In between, there were too many dead women to count. A few stand out in memory, the ones whose deaths were especia...

The Latest Excuse For Roger Goodell Is Offensive Horseshit

In the latest seriously-fucked-up development in the NFL's handling of the Ray Rice investigation, the league appears to be trying to shift the blame to Janay Rice—and in doing so, restates its woeful inability to grasp even the most basic concepts of domestic violence....

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Here's the Atlantic County prosecutor discussing why he agreed to a deal that kept Ray Rice out of prison, and here's some good analysis. The upshot? It's rare and difficult in this country to prosecute domestic violence without the cooperation of the victim, and the sentences usually don't include ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu Sep 11 2014

49ers Play-By-Play Guy Suspended Two Games For Janay Rice Remarks

The San Francisco 49ers have reportedly suspended play-by-play radio announcer Ted Robinson for two games for his comments on Ray and Janay Rice during an appearance Monday on radio station KNBR....

by Samer Kalaf|

|Thu Sep 11 2014

Janay Rice Releases Statement: "This Is Our Life"

This morning, Janay Rice posted the statement to her (now-private) Instagram account. Rice told the Baltimore Sun that it was intended to be released publicly....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Tue Sep 09 2014

ESPN Asks Ray Rice What Wife's Pregame "Words of Encouragement" Were

In case you were not aware that Ray Rice, the Baltimore Ravens, and the NFL would like you to know that Ray and Janay Rice are happily married and not at the center of an ugly domestic violence ordeal, here is Sal Paolantonio asking Rice what his wife's final words of encouragement were before today...

by Sean Newell|

|Fri Aug 08 2014

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