The NFL Thinks Smoking Weed Is Eight Times Worse Than Beating a Woman Unconscious
Ray Rice is an All-Pro running back entering the third year of a five-year, $35 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens. In February, Rice allegedly beat his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, in an elevator at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Days later, TMZ posted a video that appears to show Rice dragging Palmer out of an elevator. One witness described the knockout punch to Deadspin as an “uppercut.” In May, Rice conducted a breathtakingly tone-deaf press conference addressing the incident. The timing — 3 p.m. on [...]
