When Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti last month while he contemplated signing Colin Kaepernick, he sounded like a spineless moron. But at least he put his name behind his comments. At least he laid out what most thinking people believe to be fact: Kaepernic...
I am a proud feminist. I don a “Nevertheless, She Persisted” tee three times a week, and recently passed on buying a perfectly lovely Honda Accord because I couldn’t bear promoting the until the plates arrived. There is only one exception to my ...
Matthew Stafford deserves his newly minted five-year contract extension reportedly worth $135 million, plus a $50 million signing bonus because that is what the quarterback market dictates. Derek Carr signed a monster $125 million contract this summer tha...
Excuse the panting. We’re still out of breath from an action packed Week 3 of the NFL’s preseason. Following a typical television series formula, the preseason’s penultimate week was full of twists, turns and unfortunately in this case, gore. If you...
Bill Belichick has a crucial preseason game to prep for so he could less about a once-in-a-century scientific phenomenon like a solar eclipse. Belichick held his daily press conference smack in the middle of today’s eclipse (c'mon man!), though he did f...
It was almost a year ago when Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett first ayeublicly pointed out a key ingredient missing to the slew of athletes protesting during the national anthem. "The white guy is super important to the fight. For people to real...
When Bill Belichick held his weekly conference call with reporters ahead of last December’s game against the Rams, he wildly gushed about one opposing player: the punter. Hekker is a tremendous weapon, this guy is as good a player as I'...
On Father’s Day, Seattle police fatally shot an African-American woman named Charleena Lyles after she called in a burglary report. Lyles had a documented history of mental illness and brandished a knife but the two officers did not ask her to put away ...
It took a while to start this column. After all, the NFL had to have mucked something up in the case of Ezekiel Elliott and his six-game suspension. It had to have bungled the length, the investigation’s thoroughness or the public explanation o...
SANTA CLARA, CA -- When San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York cleaned house in January – firing GM Trent Baalke and Chip Kelly, the team’s third head coach in as many years – he knew the priority had to be stability. York quickly gathered a few veteran...
