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FILE - Tennessee Titans linebacker Bud Dupree (48) warms up during training camp at the NFL football team's practice facility in in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, July 28, 2022. Dupree pleaded guilty on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, to a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from an altercation in a Nashville drug store last January. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Titans linebacker Dupree pleads guilty in drugstore assault

Aug. 15, 2022 05:20 PM EDT

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) warm up before an NFL preseason football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Browns' Watson apologizes 'to all the women I have impacted'

By Tom Withers Aug. 12, 2022 06:58 PM EDT

FILE - Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football player Najeh Davenport is shown in Pittsburgh on Sept. 23, 2007. Hundreds of Black NFL retirees denied payouts in the $1 billion concussion settlement now qualify for awards after their tests were rescored to eliminate racial bias. The fact that the testing algorithm adjusted scores by race, as a rough proxy for someone's socioeconomic background, went unnoticed for several years until lawyers for former Pittsburgh Steelers Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport exposed it in a 2020 lawsuit. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
More Black NFL retirees win dementia cases in rescored tests

By Maryclaire Dale Aug. 12, 2022 09:12 AM EDT

FILE - Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper watches during warm ups before an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. Tepper’s real estate company has promised to pay more than $82 million to creditors over an abandoned practice facility project in Rock Hill under a new plan proposed Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman, File)
Panthers propose to pay $82M over failed practice facility

Aug. 11, 2022 11:32 AM EDT

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, left, hands off to running back Kareem Hunt during an NFL football practice in Berea, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/David Dermer)
Watson starting Browns' preseason opener as suspension looms

By Tom Withers Aug. 10, 2022 04:40 PM EDT

Ashley Solis, left, the first woman among several plaintiffs to file lawsuits accusing Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault or harassment, speaks as her attorney Tony Buzbee stands beside her during a news conference to give an update to the lawsuits Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, in Houston. The NFL is appealing a disciplinary officer's decision to suspend Watson for six games for violating the league's personal conduct policy. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Attorney urges Goodell to 'do the right thing' on Watson

By Kristie Rieken Aug. 04, 2022 06:35 PM EDT

FILE - Pittsburgh Steelers senior defensive assistant Brian Flores, right, watches as the team goes through drills during an NFL football practice on May 31, 2022, in Pittsburgh. A judge on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, quickened the time it will take to rule whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell gets to decide the merits of racial discrimination claims made by Black coaches against the league and its teams, saying that it appears an effort to gather more evidence is a try at “an impermissible fishing expedition.” Flores, who was fired in January as head coach of the Miami Dolphins and is now with the Steelers, filed the lawsuit in February. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
Judge shortens road to decide NFL racial discrimination suit

By Larry Neumeister Aug. 04, 2022 12:30 PM EDT

FILE - Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross gestures at the end of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons, on Oct. 24, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. The NFL has suspended Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and fined him $1.5 million for tampering with Tom Brady and Sean Payton following a six-month investigation stemming from Brian Flores' racial discrimination lawsuit against the league. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, FIle)
NFL suspends Dolphins owner for tampering with Brady, Payton

By Rob Maaddi Aug. 02, 2022 12:28 PM EDT

FILE - Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson is greeted by fans before the team's NCAA college football game against Louisville on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, in Clemson, S.C. The NFL suspended Watson for six games on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022 for violating its personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct made against him by two dozen women in Texas, two people familiar with the decision said. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt, FIle)
EXPLAINER: Watson discipline didn't require legal charges

By Rob Maaddi Aug. 01, 2022 09:04 AM EDT

Cleveland Browns quarterbacks Deshaun Watson (4) and Jacoby Brissett (7) jog during the NFL football team's training camp, Monday, August 1, 2022, in Berea, Ohio. Watson was suspended for six games on Monday after being accused by two dozen women in Texas of sexual misconduct during massage treatments, in what a disciplinary officer said was behavior “more egregious than any before reviewed by the NFL.” (AP Photo/Nick Cammett)
Browns QB Watson suspended 6 games, NFL weighs appeal

By Rob Maaddi Aug. 01, 2022 08:29 AM EDT

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson walks during an NFL football practice in Berea, Ohio, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/David Dermer)
AP sources: Decision in Watson discipline case coming Monday

By Rob Maaddi Jul. 31, 2022 07:16 PM EDT

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson walks off the field after the NFL football team's training camp, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Berea, Ohio. (AP Photo/Nick Cammett)
AP sources: No decision in Watson discipline case this week

By Rob Maaddi Jul. 29, 2022 09:57 AM EDT

Sportlight-Week Ahead, July 29-Aug.4

By The Associated Press Jul. 28, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
July 29 1751 — The first International World Title Prize Fight takes place in Harlston, England. The champion, Jack Slack of England, beats the...

FILE - A placard for Washington Commanders' Dan Snyder is seen during a Hous​e Oversight Committee hearing on the Commanders' workplace conduct, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Snyder is set to testify later Thursday morning, July 28, before a congressional committee that is investigating the NFL team’s history of workplace misconduct.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Commanders owner Dan Snyder testifies before House committee

By Stephen Whyno Jul. 28, 2022 07:38 AM EDT

FILE - United States goalkeeper Hope Solo takes the ball during a women's soccer game at the Rio Olympics against New Zealand on Aug. 3, 2016, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Former women’s national team star Solo pleaded guilty Monday, July 25, 2022, to driving while impaired, almost four months after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside. (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio, File)
Hope Solo pleads guilty to DWI, gets 30-day sentence, fine

Jul. 25, 2022 07:32 PM EDT

Rugby players taking legal action about brain injury claims

Jul. 24, 2022 07:23 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — More than 100 former rugby players are taking legal action against World Rugby and the national governing bodies of England and Wales over what they...

Washington Football Team safety Deshazor Everett (22) stands on the sidelines during the second half of a preseason NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, in Landover, Md. The former Washington safety pleaded guilty to reckless driving for his role in a December crash that killed his passenger. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)
Former WFT safety Everett pleads guilty to reckless driving

By Stephen Whyno Jul. 20, 2022 06:24 PM EDT

FILE - Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson speaks during a news conference after an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Chargers, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in Carson, Calif. The Houston Texans had been told that their former quarterback Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massage sessions, but instead of trying to stop him, the team provided him with resources to enable his actions and “turned a blind eye” to his behavior, according to a lawsuit filed Monday, June 27, 2022. Watson, who was later traded to the Cleveland Browns, has denied any wrongdoing and vowed to clear his name. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Lawyer: 30 women settle Watson-related claims against Texans

By Juan A. Lozano Jul. 15, 2022 01:44 PM EDT

FILE - Gov. Phil Bryant speaks about his legacy following a life of public service in his office at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Jan. 8, 2020. A defendant in a Mississippi welfare fraud case said in a court document she directed $1.1 million in welfare money to former NFL star Brett Favre at the direction of Bryant. Mississippi news outlets report that the accusation, which Bryant denies, is in a filing on behalf of defendant Nancy New, who, with her son, once ran a nonprofit group and an education company in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Defendant: Ex-governor ordered payments to NFL's Brett Favre

Jul. 13, 2022 07:20 PM EDT

Judge says blood test results can be used in Ruggs' DUI case

Jul. 12, 2022 04:08 PM EDT
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that results of a blood-alcohol test taken from former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III can be used as evidence...