Yet again, in the case of Giants kicker Josh Brown, the league has shown that it could not care less about women and really, really doesn’t want to call out its players for doing bad things to them. Annie Apple, the mother of Giants cornerback Eli Apple, took Mara to task for treating domestic violence lightly. “As a domestic violence survivor, reading these Mara comments makes me sad, angry and completely baffled,” she wrote Thursday on Twitter. She is a casual sports fan upset about the way local professional teams have treated players accused of domestic violence — players like pitcher Aroldis Chapman, whom the Yankees acquired last December even though he was being investigated for domestic violence. Over the past several months, she spearheaded a public service campaign, #NotAFan, featuring top athletes and coaches, including Yankees Manager Joe Girardi, speaking out against domestic violence.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2016 18:21 UTC