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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2016, file photo, a New Orleans Saints helmet rests on the playing field before an NFL football game in Kansas City, Mo. An Associated Press review of public tax documents found that the Bensons' foundation has given at least $62 million to the Archdiocese of New Orleans and other Catholic causes over the past dozen years, including gifts to schools, universities, charities and individual parishes. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
NFL's Saints head to court in Catholic Church email dispute

By Jim Mustian 7 hrs ago

FILE - In this March 27, 2019, file photo, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond talks with NOLA.com | The Times Picayune at the archdiocese office in New Orleans, La. Aymond has been spotted on the field at New Orleans Saints games and inside the team's Superdome box and has flown on the owner’s private jet. He is known for celebrating stirring pregame Masses. (David Grunfeld/NOLA.com/The Advocate via AP, File)
Judge orders open hearing on NFL team's emails with church

By Kevin Mcgill Feb. 13, 2020 01:10 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2019, file photo, New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson, watches the team warm up, before an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers in New Orleans. The Saints contend their behind-the-scenes public relations work on the area’s Roman Catholic sexual abuse crisis was “minimal,” but attorneys suing the church allege hundreds of confidential Saints emails show just the opposite, the team actively helping to shape a list of credibly accused clergy that appears to be an undercount. Benson, who is close friends with the local archbishop, have disputed as “outrageous” any suggestion that the team helped cover up crimes. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)
Saints owner denies team had role in clergy sex abuse list

By Jim Mustian Feb. 10, 2020 07:30 PM EST

This satellite image taken Jan. 26, 2020, and provided by Maxar Technologies shows Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. The San Francisco 49ers are scheduled to face the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL Super Bowl 54 football game on Sunday at the stadium. (Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies via AP)
Stoneman Douglas players take part in Super Bowl rehearsal

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 01, 2020 02:41 PM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2016, file photo, a New Orleans Saints helmet rests on the playing field before an NFL football game in Kansas City, Mo. The Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Judge allows AP to be heard in dispute over Saints emails

By Jim Mustian Jan. 31, 2020 02:02 PM EST

FILE - This Jan. 26, 2020 file photo shows DJ Khaled at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Miami's hometown hero DJ Khaled surprised fans with an all-star lineup that included Rick Ross, Lil Wayne and Migos during the EA Sports Bowl at Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
Rick Ross, Lil Wayne join DJ Khaled at Miami EA Sports Bowl

By Kelli Kennedy Jan. 31, 2020 02:56 AM EST

Members of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, including Richard Windmann, hold signs in front of the New Orleans Saints training facility in Metairie, La., Wednesday Jan. 29, 2020. The pro football team acknowledged last week that its front office helped church leaders deal with the public relations fallout that followed the publishing a list of local clergymen the archdiocese deemed “credibly accused” of sexually abusing children. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)
NFL's Saints accused of helping shape clergy sex abuse list

By Jim Mustian Jan. 30, 2020 09:54 AM EST

HOLD FOR STORY BY WILLIAM J. KOLE — FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2012 file photo, New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez speaks in the locker room at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. More than two years after he hanged himself in his prison cell in April 2017, while serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, Netflix is releasing "Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez" on Jan. 15, 2020. Hernandez's suicide came just a days after he was acquitted of most charges in another double murder case. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Aaron Hernandez's fiancee speaks out on documentary series

Jan. 29, 2020 04:19 PM EST

NFL free agent Antonio Brown appears at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., via video link Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Brown was granted bail on Friday after spending the night in a Florida jail. The wide receiver will have to pay a bond of $110,000, surrender his passport, wear a monitor, get mental health evaluation and pass random drug tests. He also can't have guns. Brown is accused of attacking the driver of a moving truck that carried some of his possessions from California. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool)
Judge frees NFL star Antonio Brown from house arrest

Jan. 28, 2020 11:13 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2016, file photo, a New Orleans Saints helmet rests on the playing field before an NFL football game in Kansas City, Mo. The Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis

By Jim Mustian Jan. 24, 2020 02:04 PM EST

This photo provided by the Broward Sheriff's Office shows Antonio Brown. NFL free agent Antonio Brown turned himself in at a Florida jail on Thursday night, Jan. 23, 2020, following accusations that he and his trainer attacked the driver of a moving truck that carried some of his possessions from California. (Broward Sheriff's Office via AP)
NFL player Antonio Brown released on bail by Florida judge

By Curt Anderson Jan. 24, 2020 12:12 AM EST

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, file photo, New England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown (17) on the sidelines,during the first half at an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins in Miami Gardens, Fla. Authorities say NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown's trainer has been arrested following accusations that he and Brown attacked another man near Brown's Florida home. Hollywood police say officers responded to a disturbance call Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 where the alleged victim said Brown and his trainer, Glen Holt, hit him. Holt was arrested and charged with one count of burglary with battery. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
Arrest warrant issued for NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown

Jan. 22, 2020 09:25 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2015, file photo, Mississippi State wide receiver De'Runnya Wilson, left, and quarterback Nick Fitzgerald, right, celebrate with the rest of their team after defeating Missouri 31-13 in an NCAA college football game in Columbia, Mo. Authorities say the death of Wilson, a former Mississippi State football player whose body was found in an Alabama home Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, is being investigated as a homicide. (AP Photo/L.G Patterson, File)
Ex-Mississippi State football player found dead in Alabama

Jan. 21, 2020 08:00 PM EST

Anquan Boldin shares poignant inspiration for social justice

By Arnie Stapleton Jan. 19, 2020 04:56 PM EST
Players Coalition co-founder Anquan Boldin shared a poignant personal tragedy in the signature public service spot of the NFL's Inspire Change platform during...

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 photo, Cleveland Browns wide receiver and former LSU star Odell Beckham Jr. walks off the field after the NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game between Clemson and LSU in New Orleans. The New Orleans Police Department said Saturday, Jan 18, 2020, that a misdemeanor simple battery warrant for Beckham has been rescinded. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
Warrant for Odell Beckham Jr. rescinded in butt-swat case

Jan. 18, 2020 04:03 PM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2019, file photo, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. reacts before an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, in Cleveland. A misdemeanor simple battery warrant has been issued for Cleveland Browns wide receiver and former LSU star Odell Beckham Jr., police in New Orleans said Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. The warrant comes as video posted on social media appears to show Beckham swatting a security officer's buttocks during LSU's locker room victory celebration after Monday night's college national championship game in the Superdome. (AP Photo/David Richard, File)
Warrant issued for Odell Beckham after video shows butt swat

By Kevin Mcgill And Tom Withers Jan. 16, 2020 02:07 PM EST

This photo provided by the Broward County Sheriff's Office shows Xavien Howard. Howard was arrested Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, on a domestic battery charge following an argument with his fiance over the purchase of a purse, according to a police report. (Broward County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Dolphins star cornerback arrested on domestic battery charge

By Freida Frisaro Dec. 30, 2019 11:36 AM EST

A photo provided by the Nashville, Tenn. Police Department shows Michael Mosley. Mosley is accused in the Saturday, Dec. 24, 2019 fatal stabbings outside a Midtown Nashville bar that killed two men and wounded another. (Nashville Police Department via AP)
Police: Man held without bond in Tennessee bar stabbing

By Travis Loller Dec. 26, 2019 11:09 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009, file photo, Peter Fonda, poses atop a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Glendale, Calif. Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right both writing and starring in counterculture classics like "Easy Rider," has died. His family says in a statement that Fonda died Aug. 16, 2019, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019

By Bernard Mcghee Dec. 23, 2019 10:13 AM EST

Brother of 49ers quarterback killed outside Nashville bar

Dec. 21, 2019 03:57 PM EST
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two men were stabbed to death early Saturday at a Nashville bar and one of the victims was the brother of NFL quarterback C.J. Beathard...