The NFL has hired former FBI director Robert Mueller to serve as an independent investigator into their handling of the Ray Rice case. As NBC Sports reports that “Wednesday night, after a bombshell report from the Associated Press placed a copy of the infamous elevator video inside the walls of 345 Park Avenue in April, […]
Tea Party favorite Ben Carson defended suspended running back Ray Rice during an interview with the ultra-conservative NewsMax TV. Alternet put it best when they noted, “As Americans react with horror to the newly released video of Ray Rice assaulting his fiancee in a Las Vegas elevator, there’s one prominent voice defending the former running […]
Keith Olbermann had a meltdown on the air Thursday, delivering an on-point condemnation of the NFL’s pathetic sanctions against the Baltimore Ravens’ Ray Rice. Rice was charged with felony assault after police reviewed surveillance footage showing him dragging his unconscious fiancée from a casino elevator, however, as Olbermann points out, Commissioner Roger Goodell handed Rice […]
According to The Columbus Dispatch, court documents reveal that the Steubenville City Schools Superintendent erased emails, wiped computer hard drives and lied to investigators about knowledge he had involving high school athletes who were found guilty of raping a fellow student. Superintendent Michael McVey, 51, pleaded not guilty to felony counts of tampering with evidence and obstructing justice, […]
As reported by ESPN: 50 U.S. senators sent a letter on Thursday to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell urging the league to change the Washington Redskins name. In the letter the senators drew a parallel between the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins name and NBA’s no-tolerance policy regarding handling of the now-banned Clippers owner Donald Sterling. […]