There most definitely is bad blood between the Patriots and the Globe, going back to Will McDonough and McDonough's rift with Bob Kraft over close personal friend Parcells leaving. There have been other "behind-the-scenes" incidents involving Globe sportswriters and the Patriots. Shaughnessy once wrote a very mean-spirited column disparaging Kraft and subsequently was not invited to a Pats-sponsored press function. (You might recall that Shaughnessy, for a time, referred to Kraft as "Thanks Myra," a shot suggesting that Kraft built his empire with his father-in-law's money.) Shaughnessy's Globe colleagues then boycotted the function to show solidarity. And, of course, you have Borges, whose personal enmity toward Belichick is transparent.
McDonough was Jackie McMullen's promoter and mentor. Bob ("I'm a basketball guy!") Ryan dislikes football and often jabs at the Patriots whenever he has to write about them. The same goes for Nick Cafardo, who for years has wanted to be the staff's top Red Sox beat writer.
The icing on the cake for this pompous bunch is the Patriots' tight rein on information dispensed to the media, a policy controlled by Belichick. Top it off with the Globe's vested financial interest in the Red Sox, and you've got plenty of fodder for an anti-Patriots bias at the Boston Globe.
