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I watched a bit of the Colts-Ravens, um, game last night, and the Ravens just looked putrid. Spent, wasted, used up. I thought that playing the Patriots, putting so much on the field, that probably wears down a team. So then I decided to take a look at the results of teams the week after playing...

In the Globe, from d-back Andre Goodman: You just don't see football players say that very often. What he's saying there isn't the usual stuff about, "we just needed to execute better." Or, "we just didn't follow our gameplan." Those are what all football players say because it really means...

Let's be real. As Ronde and Tiki said, everyone steals signs, and everyone knows it. But this is par for the course with the NFL. The NFL is, in my mind, the most cynical professional sports operation in the country. They and the folks at ESPN are concerned with one thing and one thing only...

Showing once again the class that makes him a model Patriot, Tedy Bruschi is using his experience with his stroke to try to raise awareness about the warning signs of stroke. In SI: I think athletes aren't necessarily obligated to be role-models, but when someone in that position realizes...

The one thing I despise about the whole NFL culture is the rank hypocrisy at times like this. Folks like ESPN hype up guys like Merriman and their little dances, and then one or two Patriots mock that dance, and suddenly everyone sounds like a bunch of debutantes at a cotillion. "Ooo, who...

Let's set the way-back machine and run down the opening games of the Patriots during the Belichick Era, get a sense of what they mean ... 2000-- Loss to Tampa: 21-16 Team lost, didn't look all that good, and they weren't all that good. Belichick's "clean house" year, as the Patriots end up...