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Miami Dolphins Release QB Josh Freeman
Cowboys RB Joseph Randle Gets Deferred Adjudication In Theft Case
Joseph Randle has the chance to have a shoplifting charge set aside if he main- tains good behavior.
Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle has the op- portunity to have a misde- meanor theft charge dismissed if he keeps his nose clean for the next 180 days.
Collin County (Texas) jail records Friday show Randle pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft in a plea deal over his Oct. 13 arrest.
A judge in McKinney put Randle on 180 days of deferred adjudication probation. Tues- day's plea agreement means the formal finding of guilt will be dismissed if Randle success- fully completes probation. He also paid $706 in court-related costs.
Last October, Randle was arrested for shoplifting at a Frisco, Texas, mall for attempt- ing to steal Polo underwear and a tester bottle of Gucci Guilty Black cologne. On Thursday The Dallas Morning News re- ported that he has gotten de- ferred adjudication, which means that the class C misde- meanor will eventually be set aside, provided he avoids get- ting in trouble with the law in the next six months.
"He's just relieved and ready to move on and focus on train- ing camp," his attorney, Steven Bell, told the newspa- per. "He's a good young man."
Trial Date For Civil Lawsuit Filed Against Jameis Winston Set For 2017
Josh Freeman's fresh start with the Miami Dolphins didn't make it to training camp.
The Dolphins announced Fri- day that the veteran quarter- back has been released. Freeman spent less than three months with the team.
Freeman faced an uphill climb with the Dolphins, who have Ryan Tannehill as their starter and Matt Moore locked into the primary backup role. Still just 27, Freeman could attract a team unhappy with its quarterback room this summer. Then again, we've al- ready seen the NFL world for- get about Freeman once.
Freeman's arrival in Miami came after Freeman spent the entire 2014 season out of foot- ball. We last saw him during a forgettable 2013 campaign in which he was released by the Buccaneers and signed by the Vikings, who soured on Free- man after one extremely poor start against the Giants on Monday Night Football. He
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spent a brief amount of time last spring with the Giants, who signed him as an insurance pol- icy while Eli Manning recov- ered from ankle surgery.
It continues what's been a long freefall for a former first- round pick who was once seen as a franchise cornerstone of the Raheem Morris-led "Youngry" Buccaneers. Free- man probably deserves a real chance to resurrect his career, but that doesn't mean he'll get it.
The latest legal saga involv- ing Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Win- ston could take nearly two more years to play out.
A tentative trial date has been set for April 3, 2017, in the civil lawsuit against Win- ston, the Tampa Bay Times re- ported. That will come nearly two years after Erica Kins- man filed a sexual battery suit against Winston.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, attorneys for Win- ston and Kinsman have until Oct. 14, 2016 for evidence dis- covery.
The allegation stems from an off-campus incident in Decem- ber 2012, when Winston and Kinsman were both students at Florida State. The incident was investigated, but Win- ston never was charged with a crime.
Kinsman filed the civil law- suit in state court in Orlando in April. According to court doc- uments, she accused Winston of sexual battery, assault, false
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imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress arising out of forcible rape.
She has also filed a separate lawsuit against FSU for its handling of the alleged inci- dent. The Sentinel reported that case is scheduled to go be- fore a jury on July 18, 2016.
The No. 1 overall pick in this year's draft, Winston has maintained his innocence and filed a counterclaim in May ac- cusing Kinsman of defama- tion.
C.J. Wilson, Buccaneers CB,
Hulk Hogan’s N-Word Tirade and the WWE’s Racist Past
Will Step Away From NFL
Following Fireworks Accident
Tampa Bay Buccaneers cor- nerback C.J. Wilson is walk- ing away from the NFL for the time being following a fire- works accident July 4.
Mike Garafolo of Fox Sports 1 tweeted the news Fri- day, citing Wilson's agent Joel Turner:
Garafolo added information about Wilson's health:
However, Greg Auman of the Tampa Bay Times noted Wilson hopes to return to the NFL once his hand heals.
The 25-year-old Wilson was an undrafted player out of North Carolina State. He spent 2013 with the Chicago Bears and last year with the Bucca- neers, appearing in a total of four games and recording five tackles.
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported July 8 that Wilson's hand injury was "very serious" and that the fireworks accident put his "career in jeopardy."
After word of Wilson's in- jury became public, the Bucca- neers released a statement
C. J. WILSON
saying they were "continuing to monitor the situation”.
Wilson was one of two NFL players to suffer hand injuries due to fireworks-related acci- dents over the holiday week- end. New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre- Paul reportedly had his right index finger amputated as a re- sult of his accident.
Even though Wilson's ca- reer has been put in jeopardy as a result of the accident, he's taking steps to ensure his long- term health is a priority.
The WWE acted swiftly as soon as they heard that an ugly racism scandal was about to break courtesy of Hulk Hogan, their most famous ring icon of the ’80s and ‘90s— and perhaps ever.
First came the Big Boot. Around 8pm Thursday, ac- cording to his attorney David Houston, Hogan learned that The National Enquirer was going to expose his use of sev- eral racial slurs captured in one of his 2012 sex tapes with Heather Clem. In it, per tran- scripts obtained by Radar On- line and the Enquirer, Hogan blasts a “black billionaire guy” who offered to finance his daughter Brooke’s musical
career.
“I mean, I’d rather if she was
going to fuck some nigger, I’d rather have her marry an 8- foot-tall nigger worth a hun- dred million dollars! Like a basketball player!” he report- edly says. “I guess we’re all a little racist. Fucking nigger.”
The image-conscious WWE stayed in Hogan’s corner when the sex tape first surfaced in 2012, followed by a lengthy and still-ongoing $100 million personal injury suit he filed against Gawker for publishing footage from the tape online.
Worldwide Wrestling Enter- tainment, Inc. has been grap- pling with criticisms over its treatment of minority charac- ters for decades, plagued by the biggest and most conspicuous critique of them all: Namely, that in six decades the WWE
While Hulk Hogan is rightfully being shamed for his hate speech, World Wrestling Entertainment has been trading in offen- sive racial caricatures for decades.
has only dared to declare one black WWE World Cham- pion—The Rock, who is half- Samoan and half-black.
That’s hardly surprising given that until recently WWE barely employed a minority wrestler that hasn’t relied on some kind of exaggerated cul- tural caricature. Historically, non-white stars have run the gamut of stereotypes height- ened to offensive effect, from Ugandan warrior Saba Simba to Kamala the wild savage to the post-9/11 Arab-American character Muhammad Has- san—portrayed by Italian- American Mark Copani—whose WWE run was nixed after a poorly-timed ter- rorist plotline aired days before the 2005 London train bomb- ings.
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