NFL Will Give Up Tax-Exempt Status, Calling It A 'Distraction'
On February 15, 2014, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice got onto an elevator with his then-fiancee, now-wife Janay Palmer in Atlantic City, New Jersey. When the doors opened, Palmer was unconscious. Rice’s lawyer referred to the incident as “a minor physical altercation.” Despite the public reaction to the violence, Rice was fined by the…