By Ron Borges
After a predictable start, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament went berserk, which is why they call it March Madness, isn’t it? Whether the “madness’’ relates to so many incredibly close games and the annual string of upsets or to the ire of people tearing up their brackets from coast to coast is debatable […]

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By Ron Borges
March Madness is upon us and so bracket fever has broken out across America. People with little or no interest in basketball in general or college basketball in particular are suddenly plunking down a few quid, dinero, euros, pesos, schillings or dollars and trying to figure out if Geroge Mason can do it […]

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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
Up until last week the fans voting in the Herald’s bracketed competition to name the greatest Patriot of all-time (did we have any doubt who that would be?) were pretty much on the money.
For example, they kept linebacker Mike Vrabel going farther than his No. 10 seeding would have seemed possible and they […]

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By Ron Borges
Almost since the day the Patriots came from behind to beat the Indianapolis Colts in November, the pundits, prognosticators and pigskin prophets (not to mention the pigskin profiteers) insisted that the “real’’ Super Bowl would be played this Sunday in Foxborough between the defending Super Bowl champions and the best team of […]

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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
Most people in football feel this is the most enjoyable weekend of the year. Not as much hype as Super Bowl weekend but two days filled with usually highly competitive and always fiercely contested match-ups between the best teams left standing in the NFL.
The detritus from wildcard weekend has been cleared away and […]

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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
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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