ABOUT-FACERavens to Honor Ray Rice a Decade After Domestic Abuse Rice’s six-season career with the Ravens imploded in 2014 when video surfaced showing him punching his fiancée Janay Palmer.Mark Alfred
opinionHOLY HYPOCRISYThe NFL’s Persecution of Star Calvin Ridley for GamblingMake it make sense. Corbin Smith
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCEKareem Hunt’s Viral Beating of a Woman Rocks the NFLA video went viral of the Kansas City Chiefs’ star running back beating a teenage woman in a hotel hallway, leading to questions of what the league/team knew and when they knew it.Robert Silverman
ViralJanay Rice: Ravens Fed Me Apology ScriptIn a Today Show interview, the wife of newly-reinstated NFL star Ray Rice discusses the Ravens' role in her press conference apology, and why she agreed to it.Jack Holmes
RecapOur Best: Joan Rivers and #WhyIStayedWe laugh and cry at Joan Rivers’ funeral, discuss why women stay with abusive men and look ahead to male birth control. Here’s our best work from this week.The Daily Beast
KickoffAre You Ready For Some Domestic Abuse?The odd story of the NFL, desperately trying to outrun the stigma of a mishandled case of intimate partner violence, and Rihanna, inextricably linked to a parallel scandal.Amy Zimmerman
At LastUsed-Car Dealer Finally Drops Ray RiceA Baltimore dealership, which initially refused to say it was standing by Rice, finally dropped him as an endorser after the Ravens cut his contract and the NFL suspended him for knocking out his fiancee.Ben Jacobs
HypocrisyThe NFL’s Mindless Misogyny Players can be suspended up to a year for pot, yet the Baltimore Ravens’ star running back was given a two-game suspension for assaulting his bride-to-be in a video that’s gone viral.Robert Silverman
Latest ScapegoatRay Rice Isn’t the Issue. NFL Fans Are.Before football fans get too sanctimonious about the Ray Rice wrist slap, they should worry about their complicity in football’s culture of violence.Steve Almond
