(SportsNetwork.com) – Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome testified under oath Thursday that he heard suspended running back Ray Rice tell NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell he struck his then-fiancee in a casino elevator in February, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n
Newsome’s testimony on the second and final day of Rice’s appeal hearing would seem to contradict what the NFL commissioner has previously said the running back told him during a disciplinary hearing on June 16.<\/p>\n
Goodell has said Rice was “ambiguous” about what happened in the elevator at the Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.<\/p>\n
The commissioner, who testified on Wednesday, suspended Rice indefinitely on Sept. 8 after video of him striking the woman who is now his wife was posted online by TMZ. Rice was released by the Ravens on the same day.<\/p>\n
Goodell originally suspended Rice for two games after their meeting in June, but later said he “didn’t get it right.”<\/p>\n
Rice argues that the league violated labor laws by increasing his punishment after the video surfaced.<\/p>\n
He and his wife testified on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones presided over the appeal hearing and will now decide whether or not Rice is reinstated.<\/p>\n
It was the first time an NFL disciplinary hearing was conducted with a neutral arbitrator, something the NFL Players Association said “enhances the credibility and integrity of our business” and is the “due process that every athlete deserves.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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