Thứ Bảy, 11 tháng 4, 2015
Thứ Sáu, 10 tháng 4, 2015
Prominent sports agent David Cornwell says media “only told half the story” of rape accusations against Winston.
Jameis Winston at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis in February 2015.
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PHILADELPHIA — The attorney for former Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston repeatedly used the name of a woman who has accused Winston of sexual assault while criticizing her at a sports law symposium on Friday.
"She lied and said Jameis hit her on the back of the head. She lied and said she had been drugged," said David Cornwell, David Cornwell, a prominent sports agent who's represented Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun.
"The media only reported half the story," Cornwell said. "It's the first time we've seen the vilification of an athlete drop into amateur ranks at this level."
Cornwell made those remarks at the Jeffery S. Moorad Sports Law Journal symposium at Villanova University's law school, which included several panels featuring NCAA's executive vice president Oliver Luck, former NFL head coach Dick Vermeil, and former NFL player Warrick Dunn. Cornwell held court on stage by himself for more than a half-hour, criticizing what called "biased coverage" of the rape accusations made against Winston in 2013. No charges were ultimately filed against Winston, though the Tallahassee Police Department and Florida State University were criticized for their handling of the case.
"Her name had been known for months and reported," said Cornwell when asked why he insisted on using her name publicly. "And it's a media policy. How can the media dictate to me how I will defend my client?"
Media organizations typically refrain from identifying potential victims of sexual assault.
Little more than a month before the NFL draft, Cornwell said he wasn't at all concerned that his comments would affect Winston's status in the draft. It's widely thought Winston will be go No. 1 in the draft to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The moderator for his panel asked if Winston, the 2013 Heisman Trophy Winner, would go No. 1 in the draft on April 30.
Cornwell paused for a second, then smiled.
"Book it," he said, setting off a few chuckles in the audience.
In November, over 10,000 people attended Hill’s first college game.
Lauren Hill, whose inspirational fight against brain cancer made headlines last year, died late Thursday into early Friday morning.
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Hill was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2013 when she was 18-year-old.
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Hill worked with numerous fundraising and advocacy groups. Her nonprofit foundation helped to raise more than $1.5 million for cancer research with the group The Cure Starts Now.
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The freshman basketball player at Mount St. Joseph University also spoke often about she wouldn't allow her illness to hold her back.
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Thứ Tư, 8 tháng 4, 2015
The jury began deliberations Tuesday afternoon.
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The twelve jurors who will soon determine whether former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez should be sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Odin Lloyd, or if he would walk free.
Judge E. Susan Garsh sent the jury to deliberate Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET, after hearing nine weeks of testimony from 133 witnesses.
Deliberations are expected to last 3-5 days with the jurors in meeting from 9 a.m. ET to 4:30 p.m. ET.
Hernandez faces three charges: Murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful possession of ammunition. The verdict slip for the murder charge will offer three choices: Not guilty; first degree murder; and second degree murder.
To return a first degree conviction, the jury has to believe the murder was either premeditated or executed with extreme cruelty. A first degree murder conviction in Massachusetts carries an automatic life sentence. A conviction on second degree murder also begets a life sentence, but with the possibility for parole after fifteen years.
The gun relevant to the possession charge was never recovered. If the jury convicts him on that count, they will have to do so based on surveillance footage. If convicted, Hernandez could receive a two-and-a-half to five-year sentence. The ammunition charge could lead to a maximum two-year sentence – most of which has already been served – or could be resolved by paying a maximum $500 fine.
When the jury left the courtroom to deliberate on Tuesday, Hernandez and his counsel remained in the courtroom. His fianceé Shayanna Jenkins stayed, and she and Hernandez were allowed to chat and joke with a short wall between them.
She appeared to be telling him stories about their daughter, Avielle. Hernandez joked with the court officer, who is a Grammy-winning R&B singer. "Can you get me a copy of your CD," Hernandez joked.
Following the conclusion of this trial, Hernandez will go to Boston to stand trial as the defendant in a 2012 double homicide trial.
Oh, and: She’s been in the officiating biz for nearly twenty years.
The NFL announced its list of regular season referees for the 2015 season, which will reportedly include Sarah Thomas, a longtime college football official.
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Thomas told ABC News that she decided pursue officiating when she realized she wanted to know more about the game.
Thomas officiated her first high school football game in 1999 after a series of tests and training with football leagues for kids.
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U-rah-rah Wisconsin! Praise to thee we sing!
Because the Badgers were already champions before the tournament started.
A regular season school record for wins. Big Ten champions. Big Ten Tournament Champions. It was already one of the greatest seasons in UW history.
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Because Wisconsin entered the tournament as a No. 1 seed for the first time ever.
And by the end of the tournament, Wisconsin had definitely proven that they deserved it.
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Because this is how Wisconsin center Frank Kaminsky celebrated that No. 1 seed.
Note the eye contact. It really brings a whole new level to the ball-rubbing.
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Because only one win into the tournament, sophomore forward Nigel Hayes noticed the press stenographer. And then he tested her spelling.
"Well, the wonderful young lady over there, I think her job title is a stenographer, yes, OK. And she does an amazing job of typing words, sometimes if words are not in her dictionary, maybe if I say soliloquy right now, she may have to work a little bit harder to type that word, or quandary, zephyr, Xylophone, things like that, that make her job really interesting."
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In their closing arguments Tuesday, the former New England Patriots star’s defense lawyers leaned heavily on gaps in the prosecution’s case. Hernandez is on trial for first-degree murder.
One of the significant pieces of evidence prosecutors introduced against former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, on trial for the death of Odin Lloyd, is surveillance footage from his home taken hours after the homicide. It shows something in Hernandez's hand:
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"You saw Hernandez carrying an item after the murder. Determine for yourself if it is an iPad or a gun," he said Tuesday during his 90-minute summation.
Sultan also told the jury about the concept of confirmation bias, calling it a "fancy phrase" for the common phenomenon of searching for evidence to support a pre-existing theory.
After showing the video of Hernandez carrying the gun-like object out of his basement, Sultan showed another video of Hernandez emerging from the basement later that night.
In this second video, he was holding another bulky, black object. One appeared to look more like an iPad than a Glock. Hernandez's mother, Terri, who was sitting in the family row behind her son, nodded and whispered "iPad" when the video was shown.
In March, Glock employee Kyle Aspinwall testified that the black object appeared consistent with the appearance of a .45 Glock — the same type of weapon used on Odin Lloyd, according to shell casings left at the scene. The murder weapon was never found, and prosecutors continue to allege Hernandez's fiancée threw it out at Hernandez's request.
However, some of Aspinwall's testimony was struck from the record, according to the Associated Press. Jurors can consider his identification of the gun based on what appeared to be a back strap, but they could not consider his testimony about the possible trigger guard or front strap.
The jury is currently deliberating.
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