NFL commissioner Roger Goodell talks during a news conference addressing the rash of NFL players involved in domestic violence, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, in New York.Image: Jason DeCrow/Associated Press One week after his disaster of a press conference last Friday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sent a memo to teams detailing what the league has so…
http://twitter.com/#!/scottclyerly/status/525266457773752321 One of the lesser reported aspects of the Ray Rice case has been Rice’s appeal of his indefinite suspension by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Rice’s argument in this appeal is that under the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement between the players and the league, a player cannot be punished twice for the same infraction. Kind…
Ray Lewis visits Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update and talks to Seth Meyers about the San Francisco 49ers and the upcoming Super Bowl. So, if you want to know what Ray Lewis will do if the Baltimore Ravens win the Super Bowl watch the video below: via SNL Read more: http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2013/01/27/snl-ray-lewis-weekend-update-video/
http://twitter.com/#!/Bill_Michaels/status/419897312966475776 There has been a lot of speculation about whether Sunday’s Packers/49ers game in Green Bay will break the record for the coldest NFL game ever. http://twitter.com/#!/Edwerderespn/status/419861064667234304 Whether it breaks it or not remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure: It will be cold. http://twitter.com/#!/DavidTarrell/status/419893765248016384 Just how cold exactly? http://twitter.com/#!/JimmyPrinceton/status/419899473414733824 http://twitter.com/#!/michellemalkin/status/419898118222512128 http://twitter.com/#!/eGildenblatt/status/419899883920031744…
This Adrian Peterson fan may have just answered the question on most football fans’ minds this past weekend: What’s a switch? Peterson was deactivated by his team, following charges of allegedly abusing his son while spanking him. One fan showed up to the Minnesota Vikings game against the New England Patriots carrying AP’s disciplinary tool…
There are no two ways about it, Colt McCoy’s 25-for-30, 299-yard performance against the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night was impressive. Sure, his night started off with a first-quarter interception in the redzone, and yeah, at times he allowed himself to take an unnecessary amount of hits, but these things don’t take away from the…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63BsH05Oy-c?enablejsapi=1] On Wednesday, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston allowed a 7-year-old boy to shave his head for the best reason you can think of. Josh, who buzzed the Bucs quarterback, is a cancer survivor, and Winston allowed the youngster to shave his head for the team’s fourth annual Cut for a Cure campaign,…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fBfwG_MHQ] Believe it or not, Ray Rice will play in the NFL again. Maybe not this season — on second thought, definitely not this season — but, it’s going to happen. Rice will speak before Judge Barbara S. Jones in New York today, and appeal his indefinite suspension from the league. His argument is simple: He…
It was only a matter of time before Floyd Mayweather Jr. sounded off on the whole Ray Rice controversy. He’s no stranger to accusations of domestic abuse himself. He went to jail in 2012 for attacking his ex-girlfriend as their children watched. However, as usual, Mayweather chose to open his big mouth and give his…
Arizona Cardinals running back Rashard Mendenhall (28) gets away from Tennessee Titans linebacker Moise Fokou (53) in the first quarter of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn.Image: Mark Zaleski/Associated Press Rashard Mendenhall didn’t want to make a big deal of retiring at the age of 26. The former Arizona Cardinals…
Vice President Joe Biden made a very profound statement on domestic violence when he gave his thoughts about the Ray Rice termination earlier today. Biden, who will speak at the 20th anniversary event for the Violence Against Women Act on September 20, told “Today’s” Tamron Hall that the Baltimore Ravens and NFL made the right…
When people think of the most dominant women in sports, the first two names that pop into most people’s heads are Serena Williams and Ronda Rousey. And while women gaining equal footing on the playing field is great, it’s become apparent in order to really achieve gender equality in sports, women need to be considered…
Although the NFL’s own policies ban sexual orientation discrimination, most teams are located in states where there is no law to back those protections up. View this image › Michael Sam. Brian Spurlock/Usa Today Sports When he publicly came out as gay in February, Michael Sam, then a defensive end for the University of Missouri,…