TMZ Rice Video Puts Gossip Site In Front Again on Sports
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The website TMZ has brought professional sports to its knees again by exposing a scandal, this time with video of a running back punching his fiancee and dragging her, unconscious, out of an elevator.
Five months ago it was audio of the then-owner of the Los Angeles Clippers berating a girlfriend for being photographed with black people and daring to accompany them to games. The news-and-gossip site has scooped other media outlets and in the most recent case proved more thorough than the National Football League, which said it hadn’t seen the footage of Ray Rice before TMZ posted it. Within hours, the Baltimore Ravens had cut him.