Chris McGrath / Getty Images                                                                                                  The Patriots celebrate their record-breaking touchdown.
By Ron Borges
The Patriots hadn’t yet completed their remarkable 16-0 season and the drums were already beating to minimize what they had done. Sadly, that’s what society seems to have come to.
For weeks prior to their stirring, come-from-behind victory over the New York Giants Saturday […]

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By Ron Borges
The Boston Herald’s all-time greatest Patriot on-line poll continues and it is down to 32 players after the first round of eliminations. Most of the results have thus far been predictable and, as I look at my bracket, the only way it doesn’t come out as Tom Brady vs. Andre Tippett in the […]

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By Ron Borges
Consistency is an important thing in pro football and no one other than the Patriots have been more consistent than these picks. Another 2-4 week last Sunday makes clear one thing – readers who listened to those suggesting gamblers do the opposite of my suggestions each weekend, as I do myself, would be […]

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By Ron Borges
We came tumbling back to earth last Sunday and it was a hard landing.
After going 4-2 the week before, the Pick 6 reversed field and came in at 2-4 as the Falcons proved Bobby Petrino wasn’t the only problem in Atlanta, the Bills, of all people, proved they couldn’t handle the snow and […]

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By Ron Borges
With three weeks left in the regular season I’m finally getting the hang of this.
Went 4-2 last week to get to a .333 betting average. If I was a DH I’d be headed to the Hall of Fame. Hit a third of the time in Vegas and they send you home without your […]

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Photo: Jae C. Hong/Associated Press
“There’s only one Ricky Hatton!
Only one Ricky Hatton!
Walkin’ along, singin’ a song
Walkin’ in a Hatton Wonderland.’’
- Ricky Hatton fans’ musical elegy to their man

By Ron Borges
LAS VEGAS - His loyal legions sang the song over and over in the days leading up to the junior welterweight champion’s confrontation with the […]

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By Ron Borges
Another sad week at the sports book. The number of games I’ve been able to lose in the final minutes by less than a touchdown this season is enough to change my address to the House of Blues.
Yet we remain undaunted because Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “Never be daunted’’ in a novel that […]

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Mayweather vs. Hatton

By Ron Borges
LAS VEGAS – They both know they’re going to win, which is of course impossible but that’s what boxing is. It’s the sport of self-delusion.
Putting the millions each will pocket aside, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Ricky Hatton know they can’t both win Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena when […]

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By Ron Borges
The Reality Hero understands what the reality of his situation is. It’s simple. Few people in boxing believes he’s real.
Peter Manfredo, Jr. knows he did little to change that perception with his non-performance against undisputed super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe last year. Even though he believes the match was stopped too soon he […]

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By Ron Borges
Ever since the Philadelphia Eagles battled the Patriots to a near-standstill last weekend there has been more talk about blueprints around the NFL than at the National Architects Association annual convention. But exactly what was the Eagles’ blueprint for holding their own against the seemingly unbeatable Patriots before finally succumbing to them?
There has […]

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