BOSTON (AP) — A judge on Tuesday scheduled a tentative May trial date for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez in the 2012 drive-by shootings of two men, and his lawyers asked a judge to issue a gag order because of intense media coverage of the murder case. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to […]
DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was briefly taken from a jail to a hospital this weekend for an undisclosed problem, a Massachusetts sheriff said. Hernandez was brought to St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford Saturday and was back at the Bristol County jail in Dartmouth about an hour […]
Former NFL star Chad ‘Ochocinco’ Johnson lives a modest life now and doesn’t seem to be raking in the money like he did back during the peak of his NFL career. Media partner theJasmineBRAND.com has learned exclusively that the 36-year-old, who was once married to former Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada, is having some trouble […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Washington Football Team nickname is “disparaging of Native Americans” and that the team’s trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name. The 2-1 ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal […]
Things aren’t looking so good for ex-NFL running back Marion Barber III. The former Dallas Cowboy was arrested over the weekend and is being held…
NEWARK, Del. (AP) — A major sector of the United Church of Christ is calling for a boycott of the Washington Washington Football Team until the team changes its name. The Central Atlantic Conference passed a resolution Saturday to become the latest organization to denounce a name that has frequently been condemned as a racial […]
DALLAS (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys tackle Josh Brent was released from jail on Sunday following his conviction for a drunken car crash that killed his friend and teammate, Jerry Brown, the Dallas County sheriff’s office said. The 26-year-old Brent was convicted in January of intoxication manslaughter for the December 2012 crash that killed Jerry […]
MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors in Miami have decided not to file charges against San Francisco 49ers star quarterback Colin Kaepernick and two other NFL players in an incident involving a woman at a downtown hotel. A memo released Thursday by the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office said there was insufficient evidence that any crime was […]
MIAMI (AP) — An American Indian tribe that believes the Washington Washington Football Team’s nickname is racist and should be changed has purchased a 60-second ad to air during halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals. The ad was slotted for the Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington markets […]
DeSean Jackson is claiming his former agent bribed him to sign with his agency in 2009. In court documents, it was shown that Jackson’s former agent, Drew Rosenhaus, gave him more than $500,000 to join. And Jackson accepted the offer to join his agency. Jackson’s claim comes after an arbitrator’s ruling that he owed Rosenhaus […]
NEW YORK (AP) — “Super Bowl 50” just looks better than “Super Bowl L.” X, V and I are nicely symmetrical, but with the unbalanced L in line for the 2015 season, the NFL decided to scrap the Roman numerals for a year. The championship game in Santa Clara, California, on Feb. 7, 2016, will […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Colin Kaepernick insists he just happened to pull on a pair of socks with dollar bill prints all over them Wednesday morning — before he learned he had struck a new fortune with the San Francisco 49ers. “I had these on before I found out,” he quipped. “Luck of the […]
