Randy Moss

Filed under: Patriots , Featured Stories TAN ( The Assimilated Negro ) makes jokes and broad sweeping generalizations in Shirts and Skins , his weekly exploration of race and sports. His opinions , like this tagline, may change at any moment. One of the NFL’s major stories this year could be an American sitcom called the “The Assimilation of Randy Moss.” At the start of the season Moss was a down-and-out malcontent; a tarnished diamond in the rough of the NFL projects known as the Oakland Raiders. Then he gets shipped off to a New England boarding school, shares a room with Captain America ... Read Full Story

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New England Patriots quarterback Matt Cassel threw four touchdown passes, two to former Oakland Raiders wide receiver Randy Moss, the Patriots scored 35 points before half time, and simply beat up the Raiders Sunday at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 49-26. New England dominated this game from the start, and even when the victory was assured never let up. With the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets both victorious the Patriots are still in a three-way tie for first in the AFC East Division. In a lot of ways this game seemed like a cathartic release for New England, as if they were making the Raiders ... Read Full Story

Filed under: Patriots , Boston The agent for Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss sent an e-mail to the Boston Globe in which he defended Moss against accusations that he injured a woman in Florida in a domestic violence incident. The agent, Tom DiPiero, says the woman and her lawyer have threatened Moss in an attempt to extort money from him. After repeated threats that they would make life miserable for Moss if he didn’t pay the accuser money, DiPiero writes: On Friday afternoon, I contacted the FBI and the US Attorneys’ Offices here in Charleston about his threats. [The accuser’s lawyer] McGill claimed to ... Read Full Story

Two Oakland Raiders defensive players are a bit lighter in the pocketbook this week; according to Josh Dubow of the Associated Press, defensive tackle Warren Sapp was fined $75,000 by the NFL for his confrontation with game officials that led to his ejection last week. Specifically, the league said Sapp was punished for “physical and verbal actions toward game officials that drew an unprecedented three unsportsmanlike conduct penalties and ejection from last Sunday’s game.” Raiders defensive end Derrick Burgess was fined $25,000 for verbally abusing an official during the same sequence. The altercation itself took place last Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars when the ... Read Full Story