By Ron Borges
After nearly four months of speculation about the videotaping practices of the New England Patriots, former team videographer Matt Walsh came to New York Tuesday and told NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell what he already knew.
Goodell said the eight tapes Walsh supplied him and his more than three hours spent answering questions from Goodell […]

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Game on.
Only weeks after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell voiced his growing displeasure at the length of time it was taking to come to an agreement with Spygate whistle blower Matt Walsh, a deal was finally reached this week and on May 13 Walsh will at last tell Goodell what he knows, or thinks he knows, […]

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By Ron Borges
The Patriots, like half the teams in the top portion of Saturday’s first round of the NFL draft, would like to do one thing when their name is called. They’d like to not answer. And not make a pick.
New England may be one team that can do it.
Selecting seventh, the Patriots have possible […]

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By Ron Borges
Anybody still scratching their head as to why New England Patriots former assistant videographer/personnel department gofer Matt Walsh has been so insistent on receiving air-tight protection from being sued by his former employer before coming forward with whatever he knows or doesn’t know about Bill Belichick’s mastery of the surreptitious uses of film […]

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By Ron Borges
Give credit to Bob Kraft and Bill Belichick. They stood up for themselves this week in Florida and also stood up for the good of the game that has made them both famous.

When the Patriots’ owner and his head coach rose at the annual NFL owners’ meetings in Palm Beach, FL. and apologized […]

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By Ron Borges
Sportswriters and fans never cease to amaze me. Troy Brown’s visit to the New York Jets last week reminded me of that once again.
Apparently based on nothing but air, some media folks in these parts assumed that, as one person put it, Brown “would not ever consider teams that would be slated to […]

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By Ron Borges
On the matter of Spygate, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has changed his story more times than John Kerry changes his mind.
First, it was nothing. Now it’s quite something. First “we’’ discovered it, then the Jets discovered it. First the Patriots “admitted it.’’ Then he remembered the Jets had a videotape of it before […]

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By Ron Borges
First it was stolen hand signals. Then it was destruction of evidence. Now it’s filming closed practice sessions and open denials. Where does it all stop? Maybe not where the NFL and the Patriots’ would like it to stop.
“Spygate II, The Encore’’ has not yet jumped the tracks on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell […]

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By Ron Borges
The chickens came home to roost for Bob Kraft and Bill Belichick and their players paid the price for it Sunday in Honolulu.
For the first time anyone could remember, six members of the Pro Bowl were booed when they were introduced to the normally laid-back crowd at Aloha Stadium. Why? […]

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By Ron Borges
For several days now New England Patriots’ cornerback Ellis Hobbs has taken a pounding in the local media and on talk radio for his supposedly poor coverage of Plaxico Burress on the game-winning touchdown pass from Eli Manning in Super Bowl XLII. Hobbs was quoted by one reporter after the game as […]

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