Cable accused of past domestic abuse
A former wife and former girlfriend of Oakland Raiders Coach Tom Cable told ESPN that they were hit by him. The women made the allegations in separate interviews with the network's "Outside the Lines" program. Former wife Sandy Cable sought a temporary order of protection against Cable in 1989 which said, according to ESPN's report, that "on two occasions, one back in '86 and the other in '88, he hit me. The second time in the face, however on attempts to call law enforcement, my husband would rip the phone out of the wall." Sandy Cable told ESPN that she called police when she was married to Tom Cable but didn't receive support from law enforcement in Idaho, where they lived at the time. "I was quite young, didn't understand the system," Sandy Cable said, according to a written account online of the network's report on its Web site.
