Before last night, the last time Roger Goodell and Tom Brady were in the same buildingâas far as we knowâwas in a federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan in August 2015, each seated and silent, flanked by attorneys.
Roger Goodell has gone to playoff games in Seattle, Atlanta, and Kansas City this season. The two conference championship games before the Super Bowl will be Packers-Falcons in Atlanta and Steelers-Patriots in Foxboro. The NFL commissioner will choose the option which allows him to be booed and berated less.
Tom Bradyâs last option to overturn his four-game suspension was to try and take the case to the Supreme Court, but instead, heâs ending his battle against the NFL. After having his latest appeal rejected Wednesday, the Patriots quarterback said today that he will not continue to fight his punishment for his role in âŚ
The ongoing legal battle between Roger Goodell and Tom Brady over the latterâs Ballghazi suspension took one more step toward a merciful end today.
Any Given Wednesday, Bill Simmonsâ new weekly sports talk show, debuted this evening on HBO. It was ... exactly what youâd expect. It opened with a segment on the NBA Finals and LeBronâs greatness (featuring a Teen Wolf comparison less than two minutes in) before Charles Barkley joined the show to lay down his takesâŚ
In the year 2184, when Tom Bradyâs head is thawed from cryostasis to testify against Robo-Goodell in Moon Court, your descendants may wonder how the longest-running legal battle in the history of sports ever got started. (Their neural visit to the electro-sapio-repository will tell them it was about balls and textâŚ
A federal appeals court reversed Judge Richard Bermanâs decision today and reinstated the NFLâs four-game suspension for Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for his part in the teamâs football-deflating scandal.
It is a pleasant surprise that this lawsuit, filed today by New England Patriots fans against the NFL, is not scrawled in crayon on the back of a Papa Ginoâs placemat, or smeared in shit on the wall of a truck-stop bathroom. But then you read it, and it might as well be: it accuses the NFL, in punishing the PatriotsâŚ
Though neither Roger Goodell nor Tom Brady appeared in the courtroom, today mightâve been the single most important day in this whole Ballghazi mess: the NFL and NFLPA made their cases in front of a three-judge panel that will decide, once and for all (barring one more appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which willâŚ
Almost exactly a year to the day after Patriots equipment personnel âlikelyâ intentionally deflated footballs to make them easier for Tom Brady to gripâat least, thatâs according to the NFLâs Wells Reportâthere was another incident involving footballs and gauges before a Patriots playoff game at Gillette Stadium.
Ballghazi isnât over, but both the NFL and Tom Brady would like it to be as soon as possibleâor, more specifically, to be resolved before the start of the 2016 season. A federal appeals court has granted a request by both sides to expedite the appeal hearing, and the timing could turn out to be fun, with Goodell andâŚ
As you knew it would, South Park took on Ballghazi in tonightâs 19th season premiere. Cartman sums up the eight months spent investigating, millions of dollars, and god knows how many hours talking about whether Tom Brady ordered a small amount of air be removed from footballs in an appropriately sophomoric dreamâŚ
The federal judge who oversaw the Ballghazi case, vacating Tom Bradyâs four-game suspension while legally shredding whatever integrity was left of the NFLâs arbitration apparatus, entered more letters from the public into the caseâs docket yesterday. This batch is smaller, not quite a dozen letters, and includes a fewâŚ
Miss Georgia Betty Cantrell is your new Miss America, and she won the title shortly after responding to a Tom Brady ball-deflation question with: âIf there was question there, then yes, I think he cheated.â
On Tuesday, ESPN Bostonâs Mike Reiss responded to the big ESPN story tying Ballghazi to Spygate with seven bullet points, highlighting items from the story worth noting and criticizing others that Reiss believes donât stand up. At some point, ESPN.com editors chopped it down to five bullet points.
Itâs one thing to yell and scream on the Internet; itâs another to take the time to address, stamp, and mail your anger to a federal judge. But thatâs exactly what 21 people did to Judge Richard Berman, who presided over the brouhaha between the NFL and the playerâs union regarding Tom Bradyâs suspension and how muchâŚ
With trumped up charges and a whole lot of dodgy PSI data, the only somewhat-weighty evidence that the Patriots had a concerted ball-deflation scheme going was the text-message comedy stylings of locker-room attendant Jim âThe Deflatorâ McNally and equipment assistant John âDorito Dinkâ Jastremski. The two wereâŚ
In ESPNâs motherlode about the Patriotsâ hilarious history of cheating over the last decade and a half, youâll notice a mysterious character at the heart of the videotaping operation: âfootball research directorâ Ernie Adams. To close observers of the Patriots organization, Adams has been a matter of curiosity forâŚ
I want to hug and kiss this beautiful story from ESPNâs Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham and take it out to a fancy dinner. Splendidly reported and brutally damning of both the New England Patriots and Roger Goodell, it alleges that the Patriotsâ Spygate scandal was worse than anyone imaginedâand was activelyâŚ
Tom Brady Sr. called a San Francisco radio program Friday afternoon to defend his son, angrily declaring the showâs host âfull of crapâ and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a âflaming liar.â
