Dan Shaughnessy
It doesn’t get worse than Hernandez
There have been terrible stories in the sports world, and we know athletes are no angels, but Aaron Hernandez’s situation is about as bad as it gets.
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The case against Hernandez was largely assembled using swatches of video, the often unseen eyes of our era.
Dan Shaughnessy
There have been terrible stories in the sports world, and we know athletes are no angels, but Aaron Hernandez’s situation is about as bad as it gets.
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