News/views: Roger can’t hide behind shield now

DEJAN KOVACEVIC, DK ON PITTSBURGH SPORTS

A law enforcement official told the Associated Press, in a breaking report, that he sent the NFL a copy of the Ray Rice tape three months ago. And, if accurate, it’s inconceivable that Roger Goodell was telling the truth Tuesday that he never saw it until the TMZ release a day earlier.

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So, to repeat, Goodell has got to go.

Not tomorrow. Not next week. Now.

This gun isn’t just smoking. It’s piping hot, and the bullet holes are the size of manhole covers.

For those who couldn’t stomach the CBS softball session with Goodell — and one easy way to tell someone is hiding something is when they cherrypick media outlets — he told Norah O’Donnell that “no one in the NFL, to my knowledge” saw the new video of Rice striking his then-girlfriend on the elevator until it went public: “We assumed there was a video. We asked for video. But we were never granted that opportunity.”