Don’t worry. Simmons is working on the Brady/Draper comparison right now. The delay is because he’s trying to figure out the right 80s movie character to complete the trifecta.

But “not a suspect” often doesn’t mean anything. Aaron Hernandez was also “not a suspect.”

Did the police ever clear him? I know he met with investigators a few days ago, but I haven’t seen any sort of official announcement. It’s almost like the Cowboys said “well, they didn’t arrest him when he went in for questioning. Good enough for us.” But isn’t it still possible that he gets arrested sometime in the…

But they hired a lawyer to do it. They expect him to use legal standards.

I agree it is kind of vague. Basically it means, if you add up all the evidence, more than 50% says he did it. If there’s a 100 pieces of evidence and they’re all equally good, “more probable than not” could mean that 51 things say he did it and 49 say he didn’t, or it could mean 99 things say he did it and 1 say he…

That’s the standard every lawsuit uses (except criminal cases). If you’re going to criticize the report for using that standard, you basically have to criticize the entire legal system too.

It’s very convenient for the NFL that this came out a few days after the draft rather than a few days before. I’m sure they released it as soon as it was available and just got lucky with the timing. Absolutely no way that they sat on this until now. The NFL would never do something like that.

Ted Wells is a lawyer. “More probable than not” is a legal term. It’s also called a “preponderance of the evidence.” That’s the standard you need to win a civil lawsuit. Basically, the report is saying that if Brady were to get sued for this, he would lose.

The most surprising part of this is not that it was intentional or that Brady knew. It’s that Belichick didn’t also know.

I’ve always thought there should be an MLB team called the Nine. In the first organized modern baseball game, the New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbockers 23-1.

Okay, that’s a fair point. I’m not familiar with this particular case. I just know that most rape cases come down to the victim saying “he raped me,” and the defendant saying “no, she consented.” In order to get a conviction, you usually need more than that, so in general, if there’s a conviction in a rape case, it…

Well, she’s not a public figure so it’s easier for her to win.

I’m sure Mayweather’s lawyers will mention that in court in an attempt to sway the jury if it goes to trial, but legally I don’t think it would prevent her from winning.

oh okay

Do you know how hard it is to get a rape conviction? It’s much harder than for most other crimes because there’s rarely any physical evidence. If someone gets convicted for rape, there’s a really good chance they did it compared to other crimes.

Considering that FedEx field has a capacity of 79,000 and he said 50,000 racists show up, I think he is blaming most of you.

I give it 5 years before Isiah Thomas is GM of the Rangers too.

Generally speaking, police don’t like to announce the name of a suspect until they’re getting close to making an arrest to avoid smearing the reputation of a potentially innocent person or scaring that person into hiding, so if they do have a suspect, they wouldn’t say publicly. In fact, Collins might even be a…

Some of the same names are on both lists (like 7th Cavalry). How does that many any sense?