"Documents Reveal More Litigation in Manning Case." New Details Revealed in Manning Litigation with Ex-Tennessee Trainer. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.

The magazine I chose to use was sports illustrated because it is one of the most well-known sports magazines. The article I read about was about the recent allegations that surfaced about Peyton Manning. in 2002 there was a lawsuit brought against him that has to do with his college career at Tennessee University. The incident goes all the way back to 1996 were Manning was excused of acting wrongful towards trainer Jamie Naughright at Tennessee University. The article highlights the key points of the lawsuit the timeline of events leading to the case, and why it is being brought back up in in 2016. The original incident was that Peyton Manning “mooned” a teammate but Naughright claimed that “Peyton Manning placed his naked butt and rectum on her face” and she filed a lawsuit against him claiming he did do those wrongful acts and described it as “sexual assault”. Naughright filed a claim of multiple acts of harassment in August 1996 and says that “he pulled his pants down and exposed himself to me, as I was examining his foot and asking me several personal questions”.

In 1997 Naughright and the University of Tennessee mutually agreed to keep it confidential, she received 300,000, multiple items of championship memorabilia, accepted job termination, and to maintain confidentiality about the situation. In 2001 Peyton Manning and his father Archie Manning authored a book Manning: A Father, His Sons, and a Football Legacy. The book has references in it about the “mooning” incident and mentioned a “female trainer” and the book also accuses the female trainer having a “vulgar mouth” referring to her list of complaints against Manning from the past. In May of 2002 there was another lawsuit filed by Naughright against Peyton Manning, Archie Manning, John Warren Underwood (a  ghostwriter of the book), as well as the publishing company. Naughright filed for defamation based off the statements in the book. Even though it was said that it is not a criminal offense to make those type of statements she still filed a lawsuit seeking $15 million in compensatory and $15 million in punitive damages.

Finally, by 2003 both parties reached a confidential settle agreement which resolved the 2002 defamation case. Within 2 years there was another lawsuit filed again by Naughright and this time she claimed that there was a breach in the 2003 defamation settlement. January 2005 is when she filed the claim about the settlement breach but buy by July of 2005 the case was resolved and they reached yet another settlement. Overall I am not sure why there were 3 different lawsuits filed from Naughright against Manning but I think it is still a really important matter to be brought to everybody’s attention.