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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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
GLENDALE, AZ. – On Sunday Steve and Zak DeOssie will join an exclusive club within an exclusive club. They will be among the small percentage of NFL players ever to have reached the Super bowl but they will be something far rarer than that.
They will be one of nine father-and-son teams to have […]

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By Ron Borges
You have to hand it to the Herald and to Patriot fans.
The Herald came up with this idea of naming the all-time greatest Patriot player by on-line balloting and turned it into an interesting bracketing tournament that has now advanced through four rounds and left, like the NFL playoffs, only eight men standing.
Whoever […]

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By Ron Borges
Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork is a good fellow, one of the best young nose tackles in the game and a valuable part of New England’s undefeated season. He is also a guy who needs to get a grip on his emotions and it will take more than the $15,000 he was fined […]

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We got a late start on the regular season but quickly slipped into mid-season form, falling behind the bookmakers in a hurry and never catching up. But, as coach Belichick would put it, this is a new season and everyone is 0-0.
Wild-card weekend is always a difficult one to project however because of injuries and […]

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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
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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By Ron Borges
Reportedly, the Philadephia Eagles are insulted to be coming to Foxborough on Sunday as the biggest non-expansion team regular-season underdog in the history of the La Cosa Nostra Point Spread (Isn’t everything sponsored these days?).
When you’re allegedly a professional football franchise and you’re a 22-point underdog (23 ½ when the week started) one […]

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