Category: nfl

Pereira launches 'Battlefields to Ballfields' for veterans

During a lengthy drive from his Sacramento home to Oregon for a golf and fishing vacation, Mike Pereira had plenty of time to think about addressing two issues especially important to him. How could the former director of NFL officiating combine enhancing his lifelong profession while helping military veterans transition into new careers.

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How Did Washington Screw Up This Kirk Cousins Thing So Badly?

Washington up and franchised Kirk Cousins yesterday, which means Cousins is in line to earn a cool $23.94 million in guaranteed money next season—and to count just as much against the Skins’ salary cap. He and Washington also have until July 15 to broker a long-term agreement that has the potential to be…

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Nobody Tweets Like An Old Person Better Than Jerry Rice

When Jerry Rice isn’t busy in front of the camera or sipping mimosas and snapping photos with an increasingly bothered bartender, he spends his time distributing his thoughts to his fans via Twitter. While all current and former athletes should generally avoid tweeting Rice proved (once again) that there are…

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Defense: Killer of 2 is star witness, not Aaron Hernandez (Yahoo Sports)

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez and his lead defense attorney Jose Baez, right, listen as the trial judge instructs the jury on the first day of Hernandez's double murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is standing trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. He is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, Pool)

The real killer of two men in a hail of gunfire at a stoplight was not former NFL star Aaron Hernandez but rather the government’s star witness in his double murder trial, his attorney charged Wednesday in opening statements, revealing the defense strategy for the first time. Jose Baez, who is known for winning an acquittal for Florida mom Casey Anthony, said prosecutors want to convict his client so badly that they made ”a deal with the devil.” Alexander Bradley, once a close friend of Hernandez’s who is now scheduled to testify against him, is the killer of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, Baez said. Prosecutor Patrick Haggan told the jury earlier that Hernandez had a brief encounter with the men involving ”a simple bump, a spilled drink and an exchange of looks” at a Boston nightclub in the early morning hours of July 16, 2012.


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