NFL’s suspension of Kareem Hunt
The NFL this past March, now over four years removed from the Ray Rice debacle, didn’t fumble the league’s mission to treat the player’s personal conduct policy sternly—especially towards domestic violence. Commissioner Roger Goodell handed down an eight-game suspension to Kareem Hunt, the up-and-coming running back who was seen on video punching a man in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, as well as the altercation with a woman near his apartment in Cleveland. Where usually the appeals and verbal-mud in these cases are an eye-sore, the just handling of Hunt’s case—and his decision not to appeal—made for an unexpected story and possible step in the right direction for a league that sometimes trips on its collective shoelaces.