Here are some highlights from a relatively non-informative conference call with Patriots coach Bill Belichick:
On the Jets team he saw yesterday
BELICHICK: They’re pretty much the same team. Obviously, they didn’t have a good night that night. But, they do a good job running the ball. They’ve got big play receivers and tight ends. They do [...]
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The Patriots coach will have a press conference at 2:30 p.m. I will try to get up some transcipts later today.
Don’t expect a lot.
It will be something like this: “The Jets are one of the best teams in the league … All of the teams playing are good … Their defense shut down a great [...]
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Tough day yesterday. I expect a better one today.
Baltimore at Kansas City: It will be a good game. I really like Matt Cassel. And I believe the Baltimore Ravens are beatable. But … I don’t see the Ravens losing. I don’t think the Chiefs are quite there yet. That being said, I see it coming [...]
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This is not an easy week to be betting the mortgage on pro football games.
Quite frankly, picking pro football has never been tougher. While there is an elite team or two, anybody can beat anybody. It’s not like the 1980s when Super Bowl champs were easy pickings in August, with only three or four teams [...]
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Will there ever be bad news again about the Patriots?
Today it was announced that left tackle Matt Light and wide receiver Wes Welker were named to the AFC Pro Bowl squad. Light and Welker will join teammates QB Tom Brady, G Logan Mankins, LB Jerod Mayo, CB Devin McCourty, S Brandon Meriweather and DL Vince [...]
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Here is press release from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.:
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Roberto Alomar, a 12-time All-Star and 10-time Gold Glove winning second baseman, and Bert Blyleven, a 287-game winning pitcher who ranks fifth on the all-time strikeout list, were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ [...]
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The Patriots are assured of hosting a divisional playoff game on Sunday, January 16 at 4:30 p.m. A limited number of tickets have been reserved for a public sale. Those tickets will go on sale on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 at noon through Ticketmaster.
A limited number of tickets were reserved for a private sale to [...]
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Sometimes we get a little puritanical — very, very, very close-minded — around here in our views, particularly when it comes to our favorite professional football team and its quarterback.
Well, you may want to check out this story in www.bleacherreport.com, not to be confused with Hector Longo’s famous local blog called “Bleacher Creature.”
Anyway, to cut [...]
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If you want to understand what’s wrong with the Carolina Panthers, which finished 2-14, you might want to look at their draft day deal with the Patriots in the 2010 NFL Draft.
The Patriots dealt their third round pick, 89th overall, to the Panthers, which chose Appalacian State quarterback Armanti Edwards, whom the Panthers wanted to [...]
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Sunday’s games
New England 31, BUFFALO 17 … Patriots look great today
ARIZONA 27, Dallas 20 … Don’t like Cowboys here
MIAMI 27, Detroit 23 … Close, but ‘Fins better team
PHILADELPHIA 38, Minnesota 10 … Lock of the century
JACKSONVILLE 28, Washington 16 … Decent beats bad
ST. LOUIS 27, San Francisco 26 … Fighting for playoff spot?
TAMPA BAY 38, [...]
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Imagine if Aaron Rodgers played in Sunday night’s Pats-Packers tilt at Gillette Stadium.
It might have broken a Pats franchise record because before and during the game, despite the score, it was not an exciting or well-played game.
That being said, the Pats-Packers game drew the third-highest regular season local ratings in franchise history with a 42.62 [...]
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Tomorrow’s games
NEW ENGLAND 31, Green Bay 9 … Never in doubt
TENNESSEE 23, Houston 20 … Jobs on the line for both teams
INDIANAPOLIS 20, Jacksonville 19 … Didn’t have guts to pick Jags
New Orleans 31, BALTIMORE 20 … Lock of the day
MIAMI 20, Buffalo 17 … Might go OT
Cleveland 23, CINCINNATI 13 … Browns tougher and [...]
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Tomorrow’s games
NEW ENGLAND 31, Green Bay 9 … Never in doubt
TENNESSEE 23, Houston 20 … Jobs on the line for both teams
INDIANAPOLIS 20, Jacksonville 19 … Didn’t have guts to pick Jags
New Orleans 31, BALTIMORE 20 … Lock of the day
MIAMI 20, Buffalo 17 … Might go OT
Cleveland 23, CINCINNATI 13 … Browns tougher and [...]
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Yes, this is newsworthy. The Red Sox sell out their exhibition games.
Anyway, tickets for the games in Fort Myers will be available beginning at 10 a.m. on Sat., January 8, 2011 at the City of Palms Park box office, on www.redsox.com, or by calling 888-REDSOX6.
Handicap accessible seating is also available by calling 877-REDSOX9. Hearing [...]
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