This piece is not about Janay Rice, who in February was punched unconscious in an elevator before being dragged out of it by her then fiancé and now husband Ray Rice, formerly of the Baltimore Ravens. Rather, it's about the awful message her explanation for the attack sends: "I ...read more
(Photo: @RitterZac) There was a time when the safety tips you heard around Halloween were meant to keep you from eating razor blade-stuffed apples or getting jumped while trick-or-treating. But those quaint little concerns have given way to entirely new terrors in the age of ...read more
This round was originally scheduled to feature Neil Cavuto, but I have the unfortunate responsibility to inform you that he has been ejected from our FOXTOBERFEST Of Stupid contest thanks to quarantine procedures necessary from his reckless exposure to Fake Ebola. Best of ...read more
Allow me to be perfectly clear: the name "Redskins" is absolutely an offensive racial slur, and, yes, owner Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins organization should change the name. Ultimately, doing so is harmless. Some fans will be disgruntled but they'll quickly get over ...read more
The recent uproar sparked by the National Football League's handling of Ray Rice's assault on his then-fiancée and now wife has prompted a national conversation about domestic violence, but one which has left important questions unanswered. For example, how badly should you be ...read more
UPDATE below. ESPN's Hannah Storm delivered an emotional and poignant monologue on SportsCenter the other day, raising the questions: why isn't Ray Rice in jail, why didn't he get fired and what does the NFL stand for? I wouldn't presume to know the actual answers to these ...read more
Patrick Perion is a child abuse investigator in Illinois. Due to the Ray Rice case, domestic violence has been featured prominently in the news this week. It has been the topic of many columns and editorials, but even though it's seeing its 15 minutes of infamy, the reality is ...read more
Late Wednesday, the Associated Pressreported that a law enforcement official says he sent a video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee Janay Palmer to an NFL executive three months ago, even though league officials have insisted that they didn't see the violent image until ...read more
Monday night, Keith Olbermann was Keith Olbermann exactly when we needed him to be, taking to task every person that was involved in the Ray Rice domestic abuse scandal, which was reignited after even more damning video emerged showing Ray Rice actually knocking his girlfriend ...read more
When I was a kid my mother and father had one very big gripe about the media: the spin. They complained incessantly about talking heads telling them what to think or, worse, outright interpreting the comments of others for them. Their attitude was that while there was nothing ...read more
Oh, come on. You didn't really think Fox News was going to apologize, did you? Yesterday morning, the aging frat boy comedy team of Doocy and Kilmeade on Fox & Friends gave us the worst initial response to the video of Ray Rice knocking his wife's lights out in an Atlantic City ...read more
Did you hear? If you care about women and are against women-beating (as most people are), but watch the NFL, you're a hypocrite. At least, so says news editor Erin Gloria Ryan over at Jezebel in a piece designed to shame watchers of the NFL into giving up the league. Is she ...read more
Ray Rice is officially a man without a football team after being terminated by the Baltimore Ravens and put on indefinite suspension by the NFL this afternoon. You can argue that this is pretty much the very best response so far to the release of a startling piece of video that ...read more
UPDATE (9/24/14): I felt compelled to basically repost this article I wrote back in August under the title 'The NFL and ESPN Have an Impotency Problem' because as I sat on a balcony overlooking the ocean during a much-needed vacation, I read that one of my personal writing ...read more
The two-game suspension of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for domestic violence has provoked angry reaction from fans and commentators, but ESPN's Stephen A. Smith wants to remind everyone that the ladies should be sure not to "do anything to provoke" violence from men. ...read more
