Clouds pass above The Ohio State University’s football stadium, Saturday, May 18, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Richard Strauss, a now-dead Ohio State team doctor sexually abused at least 177 male students from the 1970s through the 1990s, and numerous university officials got wind of what was going on over the years but did little or nothing to stop him, according to a report released by the …
The next fight for the Raiders may be in a courtroom, as the city of Oakland is considering a lawsuit against the Silver and Black. The issue: a $90 million stadium commitment by taxpayers. The Oakland City Council was meeting in a private session Tuesday afternoon.
A taxpayer lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles alleges an unlawful “gift of public funds” to the Los Angeles Rams in the form of security at home games and calls for changes to how those officers are paid. The lawsuit filed Wednesday by former Los Angeles City Councilmember Dennis Zine, a former police officer, and Los Angeles resident James Bibeau seeks “to prevent the city from expending …
The attorney suing the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the NFL over this month’s canceled HOF game has dismissed the initial lawsuit in Ohio and refiled in California. Attorney Michael J. Avenatti dismissed his Aug. 11 complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland while filing a similar one in U.S. District Court in California seeking more than $5 million in damages. He accuses of the …
The lure of the NFL was just too much for Inglewood, a former city employee charges in a federal lawsuit. Barbara Ohno, Inglewood’s former budget and accounting manager, claims that the future home of the Los Angeles Rams massaged its accounting books to mask its financial problems. In the complaint, Ohno says that Mayor James T. Butts ordered employees to “create a facade of financial …