NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL will not adopt a rule forcing players to stand for the National Anthem.Trump had demanded such a rule. Sad!
Mike Pence's publicity stunt — a Donald Trump production with assist from Jerry Jones. Kneeling football players concern them more than marching racists or police shooting a black suspect in the back.
What would we do without TMZ? No coverage of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones meeting the pope and giving him a signed Dallas Cowboys jersey for one thing.
The state Ethics Commission has issued its formal finding that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones unintentionally violated the law when he gave hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free trips to Dallas football games to North Little Rock police officers in appreciation for their work.
Blogger Russ Racop reports that the Arkansas Ethics Commission voted 3-2 today to find that Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones had unintentionally violated the state ethics law in giving $300,000 worth of free trips to Cowboy games to North Little Rock police officers. He'll get a warning letter to that effect.
Sgt. Michael Gibbons, head of the North Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police, has accepted a state Ethics Commission finding that acceptance of free trips for cops to Dallas Cowboy football games provided by Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones was a violation of a state ethics law. The finding included no punishment. A case still pends against Jones.
Russ Racop, the blogger who complained to the state Ethics Commission about Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones' gift worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to North Little Rock cops, has received notice that the Commission will have a probable cause hearing on his complaints.
The Texas Tribune reports that Arkansas native Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, is among those who've contacted Texas officials in apparent opposition to a "bathroom bill" banning transgender restroom use other than facilities that match birth gender, even though it contains a stadium exemption meant to deter North Carolina-style blowback by outfits like the NBA and NCAA.
Blogger Russ Racop raises an interesting question, as he sometimes does, about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' gift of free tickets for North Little Rock cops to attend a Dallas Cowboy football game.
The New York Times reports today that it has found serious flaws in research done by the National Football League on concussions. A committee formed in 1994 issued reports playing down the danger of head injuries.
Jerry Jones, the Arkansas native and former Razorback football player who owns the Dallas Cowboys, isn't happy that the NFL has adopted the position that football can lead to degenerative brain problems.