Monday, September 22, 2014

Ravens Owner Fires Back at ESPN's Ray Rice Report

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Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti fired back at an ESPN report from Friday that that probed into how the team and the NFL handled their investigation of Ray Rice after the running back knocked out his then-fiancée in a casino elevator in February


On Monday, Bisciotti alleged that the bombshell report botched or left out important details. Bisciotti appeared before reporters at a press conference in Baltimore, while the team released a long statement attempting to refute parts of the ESPN story, point by point



The lengthy piece was written by two of ESPN's most respected reporters, Kevin Van Valkenburg and Don Van Natta Jr.; the latter is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner. The piece appeared to damn the Ravens and the NFL by their actions over the past several months. The Ravens, according to ESPN, engaged in an extended effort of "misinformation and misdirection" to get Rice off easy — then abandoned him in the blink of an eye once that proved impossible. The NFL, according to the report, participated in some of this either willfully or by dint of sheer incompetence Read more...


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