Category: NFL Players

Holy Roman Gabriel! Rams Switch To White Horns For Upcoming Season

The Rams will retain top cornerback Trumaine Johnson for the 2017 season under a guaranteed contract worth $16.7 million Fun fact: the Rams were the first National Football League team to have a logo on their helmets, when in 1948 halfback Fred Gehrke, who worked as a commercial artist in off-season, painted ram horns on the team’s leather helmets. The Los Angeles Rams announced they have elected to place the non-exclusive franchise tag on cornerback Trumaine Johnson for the second consecutive season.

BC-AP News Digest 7 am

Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States. By Alicia A. Caldwell and Vivian Salama.

Steve Price hints he’ll Quit I’m a Celebrity due to Keira

The moment Harrison Ford came TERRIFYINGLY close to an air disaster: New video shows his plane passing just feet over a 737 with 106 people aboard as he misses runway and lands on taxiway Freed to kill in a sanctuary city: Illegal immigrant gangster ‘robbed then murdered man at rail station’ weeks after being released in Denver despite request from ICE to keep him jailed for deportation Arrival ‘just sucked’, La La Land is ‘not memorable’ and Meryl Streep is ‘like a clown’: One Academy member reveals her votes Anne Frank Center director blames Trump and his ‘henchman’ Steve Bannon for the ‘cancer’ of anti-Semitism currently in America: ‘Our president is creating an incubator of hatred’ Was this woman about to be kidnapped? Terrified teen driver tells how she found a shirt wrapped around her windshield wiper in a dark parking lot as two cars idled nearby San Jose declares a state of … (more)

Nicole Scherzinger flashes bra at London’s Paper nightclub

The moment Harrison Ford came TERRIFYINGLY close to an air disaster: New video shows his plane passing just feet over a 737 with 106 people aboard as he misses runway and lands on taxiway Freed to kill in a sanctuary city: Illegal immigrant gangster ‘robbed then murdered man at rail station’ weeks after being released in Denver despite request from ICE to keep him jailed for deportation Arrival ‘just sucked’, La La Land is ‘not memorable’ and Meryl Streep is ‘like a clown’: One Academy member reveals her votes Anne Frank Center director blames Trump and his ‘henchman’ Steve Bannon for the ‘cancer’ of anti-Semitism currently in America: ‘Our president is creating an incubator of hatred’ Was this woman about to be kidnapped? Terrified teen driver tells how she found a shirt wrapped around her windshield wiper in a dark parking lot as two cars idled nearby San Jose declares a state of … (more)

Esty to honor 6 leaders in Black History Month ceremony

To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: DANBURY – U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty will honor six African-American community leaders during her annual Black History Month ceremony. The six honorees include Joyce Petteway, of Waterbury, who has been active with the Waterbury NAACP; Rhudean Raye, of Meriden, one of the city’s first black teachers; Arthur Perry, of New Britain, who will be honored posthumously for his work as a union organizer; and Tebucky Jones, of New Britain, former New England Patriots player who now coaches New Britain High School’s football team.

Rick Derringer charged for having gun on Delta flight

Newly-installed education secretary Betsy DeVos on her first visit to a school is BLOCKED from entering the building by protesters… and is forced to sneak in via a side entrance No point in shoveling out yet! ANOTHER storm is set to hit the Northeast – just three days after the whiteout that dropped two feet of snow on the region Trailer for ‘racist’ Netflix series Dear White People ‘gets a million dislikes in just ONE day’ – and sparks customer revolt Now-paralyzed man admits to 2002 rape after DNA kit match but gets a suspended sentence because he’s already in a nursing home ‘We are truly blessed’: Family rejoice as Jamie Lynn Spears’ daughter Maddie, 8, LEAVES hospital six days after girl almost died after flipping ATV into a pond Fort Bliss soldier gets 15 months for trying to smuggle two illegal immigrants from Mexico in exchange for $1,500 EXCLUSIVE: Child sex abuse victim who … (more)

Judge who let Brady play offers his congratulations on win

The New York judge who ruled against the National Football League in “Deflategate” said Monday that the New England Patriots showed with their Super Bowl victory “never to quit.” “Last night, they showed us all never to quit, everything is possible, and the importance of teamwork,” wrote the judge who had required that quarterback Tom Brady and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell attend proceedings in his courtroom in August 2015.

Trump predicts Patriots will win Super Bowl by 8 points

Donald Trump Trump: Becoming president ‘a surreal experience’ Trump predicts Patriots will win Super Bowl by 8 points Conway: Tillerson’s changes at State may include dealing with leaks MORE predicted the New England Patriots would win Super Bowl LI by 8 points in a Fox News interview airing before the game. “Well, I hate to make predictions, but I’ll say, I don’t even know what are the odds, I guess it’s pretty even, so I’ll say the Patriots will win by 8 points,” Trump told Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly.

VP Pence to Attend Super Bowl 51

Vice President Mike Pence will be attending Super Bowl LI Sunday, a source familiar with his schedule told CBS News . It is not clear if Pence, the former governor of Indiana, has a favorite in the game between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons.

Fast Forward: It’s a Super Monday. That’s all.

What’s it like outside? Button up, buttercup: A nor’easter, minus the tons of snow, will smack us around like Tom Brady spanked the Steelers . Instead of snow, we’ll get lots of rain inside 495 and wicked winds along the coast, so watch out for flooding and power outages.

This day in history, Jan. 8, 2017

On Jan. 8, 1867, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, giving black men in the nation’s capital the right to vote. In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.

Progress and struggles reflect in top race headlines of 2016

Of the many events marking the closing year of Barack Obama’s time as the nation’s first black president, none had deeper resonance than his opening of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture on the National Mall. Tracing the history of black America from its dark beginnings in human bondage to Obama’s historic election, the museum has already welcomed more than 600,000 visitors.

Progress and struggles reflect in top race headlines of 2016

Of the many events marking the closing year of Barack Obama’s time as the nation’s first black president, none had deeper resonance than his opening of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture on the National Mall. Tracing the history of black America from its dark beginnings in human bondage to Obama’s historic election, the museum has already welcomed more than 600,000 visitors.