Arbitrator Harold Henderson denies Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott’s appeal of a six-game suspension in a domestic violence case.
SHERMAN, Texas — An arbitrator denied Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott’s appeal of a six-game suspension in a domestic violence case Tuesday, but the 2016 NFL rushing champion will play in the opener because of the timing of the decision.
Elliott attorney Jeffrey Kessler told the judge near the end of a nearly 21/2-hour hearing in federal court that Elliott’s suspension was sustained by arbitrator Harold Henderson.
At the start of the hearing, NFL attorney Daniel Nash told the judge it was “his understanding” that Elliott could play Sunday night against the Giants because Henderson’s ruling came too late in the day for it to be enforced this weekend.
U. S. District Judge Amos Mazzant said he would rule on Elliott’s request for a temporary restraining order by Friday.
“We are extremely disappointed with Mr. Henderson’s inability to navigate through league politics, and follow the evidence, and, most importantly, his (sic) conscience, ” attorneys Frank Salzano and Scott Rosenblum said in a statement.
Elliott was suspended by Commissioner Roger Goodell after the league concluded he had several physical confrontations last summer with Tiffany Thompson, a former girlfriend. Prosecutors in Ohio didn’ t pursue the case, citing conflicting evidence.
The 22-year-old Elliott denied the allegations in sworn testimony during an appeal hearing last week. He attended Tuesday’s hearing in Sherman, about 65 miles north of Dallas.
FALCONS: Atlanta completed its roster for Sunday’s opener at Chicago by signing linebacker Jordan Tripp, who played nine games last season for Seattle and Green Bay.
CARDINALS: Arizona beefed up its offensive line by signing guard Alex Boone to a one-year contract.
JETS: The Jets signed wide receiver Jeremy Kerley to a one-year deal, reuniting with a player who spent his first five NFL seasons with the franchise.
To make room on the roster, the Jets waived fullback Julian Howsare.
BUCS-DOLPHINS: The Miami Dolphins’ season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will not be played in Miami this week, but may be moved to a neutral site because of Hurricane Irma, the NFL said.
If the game is not relocated, it will be postponed until November, when the teams share the same bye week.
Kickoff had been scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday, but Irma is forecast to threaten South Florida this weekend. The NFL decided against switching the game to Thursday night in Miami.
BILLS: The Bills placed third-string quarterback T. J. Yates on the injured reserve list in making a series of moves before their season opener against the New York Jets on Sunday.
Yates sustained a concussion in a 13-9 loss at Baltimore on Aug. 26, and also lost the backup job to rookie Nathan Peterman. He became expendable after Buffalo signed Joe Webb on Monday.
The moves freed up space for Buffalo to sign safety Colt Anderson, who was released a day earlier, and defensive tackle Cedric Thornton.
RAIDERS: Oakland placed second-round pick Obi Melifonwu on injured reserve, forcing the safety to miss at least the first eight games of the season.
The Raiders also placed offensive lineman Denver Kirkland on injured reserve. Oakland signed safety Erik Harris and linebacker Xavier Woodson-Luster to the active roster.
BROWNS: Defensive tackle T. Y. McGill has been charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession in North Carolina.
A team spokesman said the Browns have spoken directly about the criminal complaint with McGill, who was claimed off waivers last week from Indianapolis. It’s not clear if McGill’s legal issue will affect his status with the Browns. He’s also subject to discipline by the NFL.
The Browns were not aware McGill had been charged before they claimed him.

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The rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees is taking another twist, with each team accusing the other of using technology to steal signs during games.
The rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees is taking another twist, with each team accusing the other of using technology to steal signs during games.
The Red Sox admitted to the commissioner’s office that their trainers had received signals from video replay personnel and then relayed that information to some players, according to a report in the New York Times on Tuesday.
« I’m not going to comment on what’s been written or any of that, but this has been a concern of mine in baseball for a long time,  » Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. « There has to be a way to protect signs.
« Electronics is the world we live in today. (Things) continue to change as we move on. There has to be something that a catcher and pitcher and middle infielders can do to combat all this.
« Football went to headset. I think we have to try something. »
Major League Baseball was alerted to the scheme, which included a trainer in the dugout looking down at his Apple Watch and relaying a signal to players, who may have used the information to determine the type of pitch being thrown, by the Yankees.
« Obviously, every game we play against those guys is a big game and an (important) game, they’re probably looking for any little edge that they can get,  » Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner said.
New York general manager Brian Cashman filed a complaint with the commissioner’s office, including video shot of the Boston dugout.
« Aware of the rule. Electronic devices are not to be used in the dugout, but beyond that the only thing I can say it’s a league matter at this point,  » Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
Baseball investigators corroborated the Yankees’ claims, according to the New York Times.
The Red Sox responded by filing their own complaint on Tuesday, alleging that New York uses cameras from its television broadcast on the YES network to steal signs.
« No chance. No, we’re not doing it,  » Girardi said of Boston’s counterclaim.
No discipline has been announced.

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Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott’s attorneys say his six-game suspension over a domestic violence case has been upheld, but he will play the opener because of the timing of the arbitrator’s decision.
An arbitrator denied Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott’s appeal of a six-game suspension in a domestic violence case Tuesday, but the 2016 NFL rushing champion will play in the opener because of the timing of the decision.
Elliott attorney Jeffrey Kessler told the judge near the end of a nearly 2 1/2-hour hearing in federal court that Elliott’s suspension was sustained by arbitrator Harold Henderson.
At the start of the hearing, NFL attorney Daniel Nash told the judge it was « his understanding » that Elliott could play Sunday night against the New York Giants because Henderson’s ruling came too late in the day for it to be enforced this weekend.
U. S. District Judge Amos Mazzant said he would rule on Elliott’s request for a temporary restraining order by Friday.
« We are extremely disappointed with Mr. Henderson’s inability to navigate through league politics, and follow the evidence, and, most importantly, his (sic) conscience,  » attorneys Frank Salzano and Scott Rosenblum said in a statement released after the hearing.
Elliott was suspended by Commissioner Roger Goodell after the league concluded he had several physical confrontations last summer with Tiffany Thompson, a former girlfriend. Prosecutors in Ohio didn’t pursue the case, citing conflicting evidence.
The 22-year-old Elliott denied the allegations in sworn testimony during an appeal hearing last week. He attended Tuesday’s hearing in Sherman, about 65 miles north of Dallas, wearing a suit and tie and facing away from the audience while mostly facing the judge.
The NFL Players’ Associated sued in federal court on behalf of Elliott last week before Henderson even ruled, saying the appeal hearing was « fundamentally unfair » because the running back was prevented from confronting his accuser in the Ohio case.
Kessler reiterated most of the NFLPA’s arguments before Mazzant, who pressed Nash for answers on the claim from Elliott’s legal team that a co-lead investigator who questioned Thompson’s credibility was left out of a key meeting with Goodell during the yearlong probe.
According to the letter Elliott received informing him of the suspension last month, the NFL believed he used « physical force » three times in a span of five days in a Columbus, Ohio, apartment last July resulting in injuries to Thompson’s face, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, wrists, hips and knees.
Prosecutors in Columbus decided about a year ago not to pursue the case in the city where Elliott starred for Ohio State, but the NFL kept the investigation open. The league said its conclusions were based on photographs, text messages and other electronic evidence.
Last year, Elliott missed a large portion of the preseason because of a hamstring injury before rushing for 1,631 yards and helping the Cowboys to a 13-3 record. The Cowboys didn’t use Elliott in the first three preseason games but he had eight touches in 10 plays in his only series in the finale against Oakland as the appeal case played out.
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When Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration would be ending the Obama-era program to protect undocumented ‘Dreamers’ from deportation, he said the decision was about enforcing the law—and mentioned terrorism as a possible outcome when the nation doesn’ t enforce its laws.
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration would shut down an Obama-era program that protects young people brought into the U. S. illegally from deportation, he said it was vital for the country to enforce its laws.
« Enforcing the law saves lives, protects communities and taxpayers, and prevents human suffering, ” Sessions said at the Justice Department as he explained the decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
The program has allowed 800,000 young undocumented people to remain in the country by applying for two-year work permits.
But what drew new scrutiny from advocates for undocumented immigrants was that Sessions cited terrorism specifically as a possible risk if the federal government fails to enforce U. S. immigration laws—and failing to enforce immigration law is what Sessions suggested the government would be doing if the DACA program continued.
“There is nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws,  » Sessions said during his announcement. “Failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence, and even terrorism. »
A Justice Department spokesperson told Buzzfeed that the terrorism comments were “not DACA-focused.” But Sessions remarks still raised questions among critics of the administration’s immigration policies—particularly since the DACA program covers young people brought to the U. S. as children, who have little to no criminal record.
“That was right out of the nativist playbook, ” Frank Sharry, executive director of immigration reform group America’s Voice, told Buzzfeed, calling Sessions comments “a distortion and a lie that is regularly spewed by talk radio.”
Sharry pointed to studying showing that there’s no correlation between immigration and crime, according to Buzzfeed—as well as a recent study reviewing 51 other studies, released by the University of California at Irvine, demonstrating that there’s not a relationship between immigration levels and crime.
As McClatchy reported after the policy change, Sessions went to the White House two weeks ago to tell President Donald Trump that the DACA program was unconstitutional —and that he wouldn’ t defend it in court, where it has faced legal challenges.
The Justice Department spokesperson Buzzfeed spoke with suggested that Sessions, in his announcement today, was not trying to say that DACA in particular had anything to do with terrorists.
“There have been many times where people attempted to use or successfully used leniencies within immigration enforcement as a launching pad for their attacks against our country, ” the spokesperson told Buzzfeed.
The spokesperson mentioned three terrorists who took part in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. According to the official, three sought « amnesty under the Special Agricultural Workers program, as did a terrorist involved in the 1993 ‘landmarks’ plot. Three of these four who sought amnesty received it. »
But immigrant advocates seized on Sessions remarks, according to Buzzfeed—going so far as to suggest they could help in lawsuits against the administration’s immigration policies. Democratic attorneys general from states across the country have already threatened to sue the administration over its DACA reversal, according to The Hill.
For his part, Sessions did use the speech to say that the policy change wasn’ t about Dreamers so much as doing what the administration believe is lawful.
“This does not mean they are bad people or that our nation disrespects or demeans them in any way, ” Sessions said. “It means we are properly enforcing our laws as Congress has passed them.”
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