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<em>SNL</em> Cold Open Features "Ray Lewis" & "Shannon Sharpe" Talking NFL Issues
Saturday Night Live opened its 40th season tonight with the NFL, as Kenan Thompson and Jay Pharoah took on the personas of Ray Lewis and Shannon Sharpe, respectively, attempting to respond to recent scandals involving Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson....
Law Enforcement Official: We Sent The Ray Rice Tape To The NFL
A law enforcement official tells AP he mailed a copy of the inside-elevator video showing Ray Rice punching out his then-fiancée to the NFL's security chief, Jeffrey Miller, back in April....
Here's Every Edit ESPN Has Made To Its <em>OTL</em> Ray Rice-Ravens Report
We noted earlier today that Friday's bombshell Outside The Lines report included some odd, paraphrased quoting of supposed text messages to Ray Rice. That, alongside the wild—later retracted—claims about the Revel Casino providing a copy of the tape to the Ravens and NFL security led us to examine e...
NFL Sponsors Don't Want Their Ads Running During Ravens Or Vikings Games
We've said before that public opinion doesn't mean a damn thing to NFL owners as they decide Roger Goodell's future, only money. So they have to be a bit worried that some of their advertisers have specifically requested that their commercials not run during Ravens or Vikings game....
The Problem With Peter King
Let’s begin with Peter King on Twitter last night. If you hate-follow poor Peter on Twitter, as I do, you know that his stream consists largely of mangled replies and random compliments to entire towns—Helluva main street you got there, Hanover, New Hampshire!—and last night was no different. The S...
ESPN Made A Very Weird Mistake In Its Big Ray Rice Story
On Friday, ESPN's Outside the Lines published a thoroughly reported and damning story about the Baltimore Ravens' handling of the Ray Rice case. Based on new information, though, it's apparent that one major part of the story was awkwardly mishandled, for reasons that aren't quite clear....
The Political-Messaging Huckster Behind Roger Goodell's Awful Presser
Roger Goodell was talking, but the words weren't his alone. "That speech was all Frank," says an associate of pollster Frank Luntz, lord of the dark arts of political messaging, who frequently works with Goodell and the NFL. "As soon as I heard Goodell's intro, I was laughing." ...
Ravens Owner Fires Back At ESPN Story, Says "Nobody's Losing A Job Here"
The Ravens took the weekend to marshal a response to ESPN's big Ray Rice story, and it's here—in the form of a press conference by owner Steve Bisciotti and an online rebuttal to points made in the ESPN report. Bisciotti claims that all the anonymous sources on the Ravens' alleged mishandling on t...
Adam Schefter: NFL Players Had Access To Rice Video Weeks After Incident
It seems like each day brings a new piece of information making it very, very hard to believe that the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens never saw video of Ray Rice knocking out Janay Palmer before TMZ made the tape public. Today's bit comes from Adam Schefter, who went on Mike and Mike and revealed that...
Peter King Thinks He Thinks You Think Goodell Is Doing A Good Job, Maybe
There's an NBC News/Marist poll going around—maybe you've seen it—in which 606 adults answered questions about the NFL's and Roger Goodell's handling of its various domestic violence scandals. One of the questions asks whether respondents think Roger Goodell should resign; 29 percent of them say ...
Report: Ray Rice's Appeal To Rest On Claim TMZ Tape Was Edited
According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Ray Rice will be basing his appeal of his indefinite suspension by the NFL on the claim that the video showing him knocking out his then-fianceé, Janay Palmer, in a hotel elevator was edited by TMZ....
Ray Lewis: "Some Things You Can Cover Up ... Some Things You Can't"
ESPN let Ray Lewis talk about Ray Rice on NFL Countdown again, for some reason. I'd say this bit of Lewis's long monologue on the subject was ill-advised and obnoxious, but then again, Lewis is an expert on what can and can't be covered up....
ESPN Reports, Then Unreports, That Casino Gave Rice Tape To The NFL
So ... this is very strange....
ESPN: Rice Believes Ravens Owner Tried To Bribe Him In Coverup Attempt
ESPN's Outside The Lines just dropped a doozy of a story about the handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence incident. It's a long and thoroughly reported piece, centering mainly on the Ravens' end of the investigation, but the big bullet points are these: Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, ...
Goodell: I Suck At My Job. Now Trust Me.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, from whom we hadn't heard in quite some time, addressed the media just now, first reading a long, boring statement and then spending a bit more than a half-hour saying nothing whatever of substance in answering questions from reporters. The general impression he gave ...
NFL Loses Corporate Partner For Breast Cancer Awareness Week
It seems that of the toxicity of Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson has finally seeped its way into the NFL at large. According to CBS Sports, manufacturing behemoth Procter & Gamble has pulled out of an upcoming partnership with the NFL for Breast Cancer Awareness Week. ...
A Whole Lot Of Ravens Fans Turned Up To Exchange Their Ray Rice Jerseys
Today is the day that Baltimore Ravens fans can go to M&T Bank Stadium to exchange their Ray Rice jerseys for another Ravens jersey of their choice. Based on photos from the stadium, a lot of people are taking advantage of this deal....
Steve Smith Has Some Thoughts About Domestic Violence And Elevators
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Steve Smith took to Twitter last night to briefly share his take on proper elevator behavior and how men should treat women....
The NFL's Useful Idiots Want Roger Goodell To Get Tough; They're Wrong
The bad thing about the corruption in NFL reporting is that there's literally no way for a league higher-up to fuck up badly enough to be held to account by the people best positioned to do so. The good thing is that if you want to know what the NFL wants you to think, all you have to do is read w...
Joe Girardi Says Rays Pitchers Aren't Good Enough To Safely Pitch Inside
The race for third place in the AL East is a snippy one, with the Ray's honoring Derek Jeter before last night's game, then clipping him with a fastball in on the hands. Afterward Joe Girardi blasted the Rays for hitting so many Yankees batters recently, but with a twist: instead of accusing them of...