District Attorney's office hesitant to charge LeSean McCoy, per report |
The Philadelphia District Attorney's office is hesitant to issue an arrest warrant for LeSean McCoy because it has questions about the conduct of the off-duty police officers cops say were involved in...
View ArticleDonald Trump's Less-Than-Artful Failure in Pro Football
In 1984 and 1985, Trump owned the New Jersey Generals, who competed in the short-lived United States Football League. It is worth recalling for what it can tell us about the way Trump makes decisions,...
View ArticleWSJ: NFL Withheld Millions From Players; The league has been ordered to...
In its review of the NFL’s financial calculations, lawyers and accountants with the players association found the league had created another category of exempted money that isn’t in the collective...
View ArticleHere's a US import Britain should ban – and it's not Donald Trump
Anyone tempted to imagine that the influence of the US is in terminal decline should pull the duvet over their heads for the next few weeks. For we are entering one of those times of the year in which...
View ArticleWhy the Browns still haven't released Johnny Manziel | Shutdown Corner -...
The way the Cleveland Browns have passively aggressively talked about Johnny Manziel the past month, you'd have thought that they wouldn't wait one minute past the start of the league year to cut the...
View ArticleNew L.A. Stadium May Need Stealthy Design to Evade Airport Radar -
The proposed stadium, to be built in Inglewood within 2.5 miles of a runway, would block a swath of the radar’s view and may cause a plane’s location to be plotted miles from where it’s actually...
View ArticleFor First Time, NFL Acknowledges Link Between Football and Brain Disorders -...
For what's believed to be the first time ever, a senior NFL official acknowledged Monday that there's a direct link between playing football and developing degenerative brain disease — a significant...
View ArticlePatriots' Nate Ebner takes leave of absence from NFL to try out for U.S....
The Patriots will keep Ebner under contract while he trains with the U.S. Rugby Sevens team at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. New England announced Tuesday it had re-signed...
View ArticleNew York Times won't retract or post a correction to NFL story |
A lawyer for the league demanded a retraction in a letter sent to the newspaper's legal counsel Tuesday. But in a Wednesday response to NFL attorney Brad Karp, Times assistant general counsel Dave...
View ArticleGeorgia's Republican Governor Vetoes Anti-Gay Bill!
Disney and the NFL were among the companies pressuring Nathan Deal to reject the so-called religious liberty bill. The bill drew tremendous backlash from businesses, athletic organizations, people in...
View Article[NO Saints Head Coach] Sean Payton rails against guns after Will Smith's death
“I’m not an extreme liberal,” Payton said. “I find myself leaning to the right on some issues. But on this issue, I can’t wrap my brain around it.” Payton, who grew up in suburban Chicago, said that...
View ArticleTom Brady Hires Ted Olson in Case "Deflategate" Goes to the Supreme Court |
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has added former US Solicitor General and superstar conservative lawyer Ted Olson to his team ahead of a possible Supreme Court fight over a four-game...
View ArticleShould Patriots 2014/2015 NFL Championship now have an asterisk *?
If this holds, should Patriots 2014/2015 NFL Championship now have an asterisk *? * won championship but cheated
View ArticleNFL warns that eating too much meat in Mexico or China could result in...
In what should be an eye-opener for all conventional-meat product consumers, and a winfall for organic farmers, the NFL has warned players that eating beef from Mexico and China risks leading to a...
View ArticleSteelers using robot dummies to limit player contact in drills
"It looked like something out of I, Robot," linebacker Arthur Moats said, via the Steelers team website. "But you know I definitely like it a lot in the sense of being able to hit something in the...
View ArticleCongressional report finds NFL improperly intervened in brain research, cost...
The 91-page report describes how the NFL pressured the National Institutes of Health to strip the $16 million project from a prominent Boston University researcher and tried to redirect the money to...
View ArticlePeyton Manning will not sue Al Jazeera for linking him to HGH use: report
Peyton Manning will not sue Al Jazeera for its bombshell news report linking him to HGH use in late December, according to a report. According to USA Today, citing a "person familiar with Manning's...
View ArticleNFL's Cam Newton brings Nickelodeon series to White House |
Newton brought 10-year-old Rosie Smolowitz to the White House to interview Michelle Obama for the cable TV series "All in with Cam Newton." The NFL star helps kids fulfill some of their dreams.
View ArticleNFL, law enforcement looking into hacked tweet about Goodell
The NFL has "engaged law enforcement" to look into how its Twitter account was hacked with a post purporting that Commissioner Roger Goodell had died. "We have engaged law enforcement to look into the...
View ArticleOut of a Rare Super Bowl I Recording, a Clash With the N.F.L. Unspools
By RICHARD SANDOMIR FEB. 2, 2016 Photograph Credit: The Packers beat Len Dawson (16) and the Chiefs, 35-10, in Super Bowl I in 1967. The N.F.L. does not want to buy Troy Haupt’s tapes and has warned...
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