BEREA, Ohio — The NFL has moved to appeal the six-game suspension handed down to Deshaun Watson after deliberating over Monday’s personal conduct judgement by arbitrator Sue L. Robinson, the league announced Wednesday. This effectively extends the league’s personal conduct case against Watson into next week, and puts the final determination into the hands of commissioner Roger Goodell or any designee he appoints to hear the appeal. “Under the 2020 NFL-NFLPA collective bargaining… Source link
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Intended or not, MLB’s two-year suspension of former Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer is now hovering over the NFL and Deshaun Watson. While one league’s standards of conduct and sanctioning guidelines have nothing to do with the other, both are linked in the court of public opinion. Particularly where it concerns each league’s handling of Bauer and Watson — two of the highest-profile athletes in American sports to recently face disturbing allegations of violence and misconduct against… Source link
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