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Here's Video Of Tom Brady's Injury [Update]

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Something Weird Is Happening With Aaron Dobson's Twitter

Marshall wideout Aaron Dobson is making a splash in Patriots camp, lining up with the first-team offense and projecting to be one of Tom Brady's targets in a depleted New England offense. His Twitter account, on the other hand, is having an identity crisis. ...

There Is So Much Going On In This LeGarrette Blount Run

LeGarrette Blount's 51-yard TD run against the Eagles last night is impressive enough to share on its own, but a couple things happen away from the play that make this clip funny....

Baseball Fan Finds Death Less Boring Than Baseball

This Nationals fan, captured for us by reader Evan, just couldn't bear to watch his team slog through another August baseball game. Instead, he decided to delve into the day's obituaries. Lots of exciting stuff going on in there....

Wes Welker Says He "Endured" Bill Belichick

Wes Welker and a few of his new Denver teammates are on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated. Inside, Welker talks about the standard new-guy-in-the-fold stuff, like adjusting from one system run by a legendary quarterback to another. He also discussed his time in New England with Bill Belich...

Patterson and Talese: A Good Combination

Kip Stratton edited a collection of Grover Lewis' journalism and wrote a book of poetry about Sam Peckinpah. He also wrote a good biography of Floyd Patterson, who we covered here recently. I interviewed Kip last summer and he talked about Patterson and Gay Talese:...

The Master

I like to go to the Matisse room at the Modern and just sit in front of this picture for a good while....

Visions Of Light: Movie Love

Here's Martin Scorsese writing about movies in the New York Review of Books:...

Choose Your Own Tim Tebow Story!

First day of training camp for Tim Tebow, New England Patriot. Big story! Lots of coverage. Passes thrown. Questions about Aaron Hernandez. Reporters everywhere. Do we really have to do this? ...

Former Player Explains Why The Patriots Are So Damn Boring

For a team that's been successful while caught up in various controversies for more than a decade, the Patriots are hell on reporters. Barely a decent quote to be found. Lineman-turned-analyst Ross Tucker, who played two years in New England, says it all starts with Bill Belichick....

Bob Ryan's Twitter Account Is An Exercise In Muted Despair

When Peter Gammons sends out one of his patented butt-tweets, it's an occasion for laughter, because old guys who don't understand technology are always funny. But retired Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan's misuse of the social media platform makes us feel sad. Ryan definitely wants to say something,...

Look At These Slobbering Media Reviews Of Bill Belichick's Presser

With Aaron Hernandez facing charges for first-degree murder and on the verge of being charged with two more slayings, I think it's time that all of us asked the most important question, which is: HOW DID BILL BELICHICK DO IN HIS FIRST PRE-PRESEASON PRESS CONFERENCE?! Well fear not, America, for the ...

Can Diamond Dallas Page Save Wrestling's Walking Dead?

Diamond Dallas Page needs to make some phone calls. He's sitting in a high-backed chair at the head of a gigantic, cherry-wood table in the dining room of his home in Smyrna, Ga. He calls this his Sons of Anarchy room, because the table reminds him of the one the bikers in the television show sit ar...

Prosecutors Seek To Charge Aaron Hernandez For 2012 Double Murder

The Boston Globe reports that prosecutors are arguing before a grand jury that Aaron Hernandez should be charged with the shooting deaths of two men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012, a previously unsolved murder in which Hernandez emerged as the prime suspect last month....

TV Panel Erupts In Epic Screaming Match Over Aaron Hernandez

So, this is the best thing I've seen today. New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is addressing press tomorrow, and people think he'll be speaking for the first time about Aaron Hernandez, who was arrested on murder charges last month. Of course, the press conference could be about anythin...

The Loser: The Most Honest Sports Story Ever Written

Originally published in the March 1964 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission....

This Is Not How You Ask Rob Gronkowski About Aaron Hernandez

Here's talking haircut Don Dahler trying to get Rob Gronkowski and his family to talk about Aaron Hernandez while filming a sit-down interview for CBS This Morning. ...

The Knicks’ Newest Player Says Hello

Bud Selig Has Never Sent An Email In His Life

Baseball is being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Robot umpires. Instant replay. The arms race of drug testing. Leading the way is our 78-year-old commissioner, Bud "Database" Selig....