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Tim Pernetti: I wanted to fire Mike Rice ‘immediately’ but Rutgers’ legal process dictated decision

Tim Pernetti resigned as Rutgers athletic director Friday, the latest member of the Scarlet Knights athletic program to be ousted in the wake of the Mike Rice scandal. As Rutgers president Robert Barchi and other school officials prepared for a news conference in New Brunswick, Pernetti issued a letter…  …

Chris Christie calls former Navy SEAL an ‘idiot’

Police in New Jersey escorted a former Navy SEAL from an event on Thursday after Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) called him an “idiot.” During a town hall-style meeting in Florence Township, a 34-year-old law school student William Brown, a U.S. veteran of three deployments in Iraq, explained that he was…