By Alan Duke, CNN

LOS ANGELES – Suspended NFL player Richie Incognito said his alleged bullying of Miami Dolphin teammate Jonathan Martin is misunderstood because “people don’t know how Jon and I communicate to one another.”
Incognito acknowledged in an interview aired on “Fox NFL Sunday” that he used racist and vulgar language in voice mails and text messages to Martin but said it was “coming from a place of love.”
“No matter how bad and how vulgar it sounds, that’s how we communicate,” he told Fox Sports reporter Jay Glazer. “That’s how our friendship was.”
“For instance, a week before this went down, Jonathan Martin text me on my phone ‘I will murder your whole F-ing family,'” Incognito told Glazer. “Now, do I think Jonathan Martin was going to murder my family? Not one bit.”
Martin, 24, left the team last month because of “harassment that went far beyond the traditional locker room hazing,” Martin’s lawyer said. Days later, the Dolphins suspended Incognito, 30, for conduct detrimental to the team.
After the interview, which was recorded in Los Angeles on Saturday, Incognito let Glazer review his phone text messages with Martin. He counted 1,142 messages exchanged between the two men over the last year, Glazer reported.
“To say that it’s offensive, absolutely,” Glazer said.
Martin sent Incognito text messages three days after he left the team, Glazer said. One said, “Wassup man? The world’s gone crazy lol I’m good tho congrats on the win” and another read, “Yeah I’m good man. It’s insane bro but just know I don’t blame you guys at all it’s just the culture around football and the locker room got to me a little,” Glazer reported.
Glazer acknowledged at the beginning of Sunday’s broadcast that he has been a close friend of Incognito for five years, including training him in mixed martial arts in the off season.
He said the only issue that Incognito “sidestepped and wouldn’t answer” concerned the allegation that Miami coaches had ordered a “code red” instructing the veteran to “toughen up” the younger Martin. Incognito cited “legal issues” preventing him from answering, Glazer said.
Lawyer: Martin made “a difficult choice”
While Martin has not spoken publicly since the controversy erupted, his attorney David Cornwell broke the silence on his behalf with a prepared statement last week.
Martin tried “to befriend … teammates who subjected him to the abuse with the hope that doing so would end the harassment” – something that Cornwell called “a textbook reaction of victims of bullying.”
The taunting did not stop, however, the lawyer said. He cited “a malicious physical attack on him by a teammate and daily vulgar comments,” and a threat of a group sexual assault against Martin’s sister.
“Eventually, Jonathan made a difficult choice,” Cornwell said of Martin leaving the Dolphins. “… Jonathan looks forward to getting back to playing football. In the meantime, he will cooperate fully with the NFL investigation.”
Although Incognito was the Dolphin player suspended, Cornwell’s statement alleged others mistreated Martin.
“Right, wrong or indifferent, because of all this, you’ve become the face of bullying in America,” Glazer told Incognito. “Someone thinks of a bully, they think of Richie Incognito.”
“This isn’t an issue about bullying,” Incognito said. “This is an issue of my and Jon’s relationship, where I’ve taken stuff too far and I didn’t know it was hurting him.”
A profanity-filled voice mail from Incognito to Martin that has been made public was intended to shock him so “his buddy” would call him back, he said.
“When the words are put in the context, I understand why a lot of eye brows get raised,” Incognito said. “When people don’t know how Jon and I communicate to one another.”
Incognito: “I’m not a racist”
“When it’s on the screen it sounds like I’m a racist pig, it sounds like I’m a meat head,” he said. “It sounds like a lot of things it is not. And I wanted to clear the air just being saying that I’m a good person.”
He acknowledged using the n-word in his communications with Martin, who is African-American.
“I’m not a racist and to judge me by that one word is wrong,” Incognito said. “It, in no way, shape or form, is ever acceptable for me to use that word, even if it’s friend to friend in a voice mail.” He said “it was a joke.”
The word is “thrown around a lot” in NFL locker rooms and it’s “a word that I’ve heard Jon use a lot,” he said. “There’s a lot of colorful words thrown around in the locker room that we don’t use in everyday life.”
Martin was his “best friend” on the team, Incognito said.
“You can ask anybody in the Miami Dolphins’ locker room, who had Jon Martin’s back the absolute most, and they’ll undoubtedly tell you me,” he said.
Incognito said he was “miffed” by “how I missed this and I never saw it coming.”
Glazer asked Incognito what he would say to his former teammate today if he were in the room.
“I think I would give him a big hug right now, because we’ve been through so much and I’d be like ‘Dude, what’s going on? Why didn’t you come to me?'” he said. “If he were to say ‘Listen, you took it way too far, you hurt me.’ You know, I would just apologize and explain to him exactly what I explained to you. And I would apologize to his family that they took it as malicious. But I never meant it that way.”

  MONTGOMERY—Attorney General Luther Strange said this court order granting permanent injunctive relief against SWATS Edge Performance Chips LLC  is an important victory to protect the consumers of Alabama from unsupported and dangerous health claims made by the Birmingham-area sports performance company.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Caryl Privett has permanently enjoined SWATS and its principal officers – Mitchell Ross and Christopher Key – from doing business in Alabama or with Alabama consumers. More specifically, the court permanently barred the defendants “individually and through any other name” from engaging in the sports supplement, general nutrition, athletic training, and pain management industries, as a supplier, seller, or servicer in any consumer transaction, within or from Alabama, or with Alabama consumers from another location including the internet. Judge Privett found SWATS and its officers to be in violation of 263 counts of the Alabama Deceptive Trade Practices Act, as charged by the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Section in a civil lawsuit. She also made permanent the previous appointment of a receiver to safeguard remaining assets and to handle consumer claims against the company.
“I am very pleased by the Court’s decision to issue a final order for the protection of Alabama’s consumers,” said Attorney General Strange. “The extreme and even absurd nature of health claims made by this company could be harmful to those who might rely on these products and believe their health needs were being met. But even more worrisome were the potential dangers from some of the products themselves. Our action and the judge’s order should serve as a warning that we will not allow companies to defraud and endanger the consumers of Alabama. I am proud of the outstanding work by our Consumer Protection Section to bring this case to a successful conclusion.” The case was handled by Assistant Attorneys General Noel Barnes, Kyle Beckman and Cameron McEwen.
In today’s order, the court concluded: “Defendants have engaged in 263 unlawful acts and practices under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act…The State has proven, through its evidence and the testimony of its many expert witnesses, that Defendants sold mislabeled, misleading, and in some cases, dangerous products to the public.” The court made a factual finding that numerous SWATS products “were sold under false pretenses, many of which are troubling to the extreme. Defendants’ Cooling Concussion Cap in particular represents a significant danger…Defendants’ willful ignorance and contravention of the laws that protect consumers from sham science and medicine justifies an order permanently barring them from being involved in these fields in the future.”
SWATS is a Wisconsin limited liability company that had been doing business in the Jefferson County city of Fultondale since its formation in 2011. On September 5, 2013, Attorney General Strange filed a civil complaint and a motion for a temporary restraining order, which was granted that same day. Following a hearing on September 19, a preliminary injunction was granted.
Among the products sold by SWATS were a “Cooling Concussion Cap” that the Court described as “simply a black compression style “skull cap” intended to be dipped into cooling liquid; sprays and tablets purporting to contain potent doses of a hormone produced by deer that is called IGF-1, or insulin-like growth factor, as well as performance and pain management chips that the court said resembled holographic stickers.
Consumers and creditors should make claims directly to the Receiver, GlassRatner Management and Realty Advisors, before a deadline of January 31, 2014.  Claims must be regarding activities or business conducted by SWATS through September 5, 2013. Claims may be filed through the receivership website, www.swatsreceivership.com, or by mail or other delivery to SWATS Receivership, c/o GlassRatner Management and Realty Advisors LLC, 3424 Peachtree Road, Suite 2150, Atlanta, GA 30326. Claims must include all documentation and other information and supportive evidence. It is required that all materials must arrive at Receiver’s office or website by January 31, 2014.

 MONTGOMERY – Alabama State University head football coach Reggie Barlow was elected to the Southwestern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame, the conference has announced.
Barlow will be officially inducted on Thursday, December 5 in Houston, Texas at the Westin Hotel Galleria and take part in festivities during SWAC Football Championship Weekend. Joining Barlow in the SWAC Class of 2013 is James ‘Jimmy’ Jones (Grambling State), Charles Ruth (Mississippi Valley State), James ‘Jim’ Osborne (Southern), Carol V. Cummings (Prairie View A&M), Bob Hopkins (Grambling State) and Richard P. Myles Sr. (Alcorn State).
The official announcement was made last Wednesday as Barlow joins some of the greatest players to ever compete in the legendary conference, such as track and field Olympians Rodney Milburn and Willie Davenport, pro football Hall of Famers Mel Blount, Kenny Houston, Walter Payton, Jackie Slater, Jerry Rice and Deacon Jones, and baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock.
“It’s a blessing,” said a very reflective Barlow, the former Hornet wide receiver who is currently in his seventh season as head coach at his alma mater. “There are a lot of great names who have laid the foundation for the Southwestern Athletic Conference. I’m honored to represent Alabama State as an inductee. All the people who’ve helped me become the person I am, father I am, the coach that I am – my parents, my brothers, college teammates, coaches, players who have played for me – I’m thankful for all of them and I’m humbled by it.”
Barlow will become the 15th inductee to go into the SWAC Hall of Fame as an Alabama State Hornet, joining legends C.J. Dunn, Severne Frazier, John H. Jones, George “Pops” Lockhart, James Garrick Hardy, Charles “Buddy” Spears, Frank Lewis, Jesse White, Norman Walton, William “Bill” Gary, Eddie Robinson Jr., Lewis Jackson, James Oliver, and Horace Crump.
“When you hear names like Lockhart, Robinson, Jackson – these and others who have done the University proud and represented Alabama State in the right way – I’m happy to be a part of that illustrious group,” Barlow said. “With its great tradition and heritage and the respect I have for this conference, I’m tickled to death to have this opportunity to join the SWAC Hall of Fame.”
As an Alabama State wide receiver (1991-95), Barlow ended his career first in receptions (133) and receiving yards (2,536 yards) and third in touchdowns (17). Barlow currently ranks tied for third, second, and fifth respectively in each category, and still owns the school’s single-season record with 1,267 yards, set in 1994.
Barlow was drafted in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL Draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars, beginning an eight-year career (1996-2003) as a wide receiver and shined as a punt and kickoff returner. During his five seasons with the Jaguars, Barlow led the team in punt returns four straight years, and in kickoff returns twice. Barlow still owns franchise records for punt returns (146), punt returns yards (1,581) and touchdowns (two), and is fourth in kickoff returns (70), third in kickoff return yards (1,634), and tied for second in touchdowns (one). He was named a Pro Bowl alternate following the 1998 season.
Barlow spent one season with the Oakland Raiders, before playing his final two years with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 2002, Barlow was part of the history as the Bucs won Super Bowl 37. In his eight-year career, Barlow amassed more than 4,000 all-purpose yards and seven touchdowns.
In 2005, Barlow was named quarterbacks coach at Alabama State, where one of his pupils, Tarvaris Jackson, would go on to be drafted one year later and is currently a quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.
Barlow was named head football coach at Alabama State in 2007, and led the Hornets to the 2010 SWAC Eastern Division Championship. Barlow has guided the Hornets to three consecutive winning seasons and his 40 wins currently ranks fifth all time in ASU football history.

TUSKEGEE, Ala. — For the second consecutive week the Golden Bears did the improbable, this time defeating the heavily favored Golden Tigers of Tuskegee University to claim the 2013 SIAC Western Division crown, 41-36, setting up a rematch with the Golden Rams of Albany State for the 2013 SIAC Football Championship.
Miles College improves to (6-3, 4-1 SIAC) while Tuskegee ends the season with a (8-2, 4-1 SIAC) and awaits their playoff fate.
The 2013 SIAC Football Championship will take place next weekend, Saturday, November 16th at 7 p.m. at Lakewood Stadium in Atlanta, Ga. Tickets can be purchased in advance by visiting www.TheSIACTickets.com. Kick-off is set for 7 p.m. ET.