Showing posts with label NFL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NFL. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

A false patriotism

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I guess Melissa Jacobs of Sports Illustrated just can't help herself . She is so oblivious to the world around us that she buys into the...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Taking a stand by sitting down

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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigge...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Where it's worse to smoke a joint than beat up your wife

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Last week Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was suspended for two games without pay for an incident in which he knocked his (now) wife...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

The new welfare

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The other day, while perusing Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback  site, I came across a link to an article he penned for Th...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Burn those draft cards!

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Prior to the decertification of the National Football League Players' Association, the players and owners bargained collectively on the ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The NFL's spring of discontent

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While I do some legal work for a local teacher organization, I would never pretend to be a labor lawyer. I have a basic understanding of the...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

When the breath test contradicts the officer's observations

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You only thought blowing under a .08 meant you wouldn't be arrested for DWI. You figured that once the result of that breath test came b...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Taking advantage of a second chance

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As criminal defense attorneys we are supposed to believe in the power of rehabilitation and that everyone deserves a second chance. At least...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Jets receiver grounded for DWI

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Braylon Edwards, a wide receiver for the New York Jets, was arrested early this morning in Manhattan for suspicion of driving while intoxica...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

There's raising the bar, and then there's raising the bar

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Those of us on the "dark" side (i.e. defense bar) are taught to lower the jury's expectations as to our case and raise their e...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

At least he's our so-and-so

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Maybe the line is just apocryphal , but supposedly President Franklin D. Roosevelt once remarked regarding (a) Nicaraguan dictator Anastasi...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Big Ben to sit down in 2010?

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While Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's legal problems appear to have passed ( click here for excerpts from the poli...
Monday, July 27, 2009

What's the deal, Roger?

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NFL Commissioner (Judge, Jury and Executioner) Roger Goodell has spoken and Michael Vick has been (conditionally) reinstated to NFL-playerho...