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Highlights Of Tom Brady's Personal Emails, Revealed In NFLPA Lawsuit
Part of the prodigious information dump related to Tuesday’s NFLPA lawsuit against the NFL is a mammoth collection of Tom Brady’s emails, each carefully tagged by an expert as possibly relevant to the Patriots quarterback’s four-game suspension for allegedly manipulating footballs. The relevations t...
Robert Kraft Will Not Appeal The Patriots' Penalties
Citing a desire to end this now, Patriots owner Bob Kraft announced that he will “reluctantly” accept the NFL’s penalties for Ballghazi: New England will pay its $1 million fine and lose two draft picks. ...
The Dispute Between Robert Kraft And Roger Goodell Just Got Sexy
As the Patriots and NFL clandestinely negotiate a mutual agreement to avoid legal war, Adam Schefter hints that owner Robert Kraft and commissioner Roger Goodell are now back on good terms. Schefter comes to this conclusion because a source told him that Kraft and Goodell hung out on a couch and hug...
Report: NFL And Pats Participating In "Back-Channel Conversations"
The NFL and New England Patriots find themselves in a messy dispute that has the potential to irreparably damage the league. The NFL levied a harsh punishment upon Tom Brady and the Patriots based upon middling evidence, and are basically making up league rules on the fly. Meanwhile, Tom Brady’s app...
Robert Kraft: The NFL Hasn't Been Fair To The Patriots
Patriots owner Robert Kraft has clammed up since his team was hit with significant discipline for its alleged ball-deflating ways, with the pushback against the NFL coming from third parties, on social media, and in a 20,000-word rebuttal/manifesto that would’ve made Ted Kaczynski proud. No longer: ...
Pats' Ballghazi Defense: "The Deflator" Was Just Trying To Lose Weight
The New England Patriots have officially fired back at Ted Wells’s Ballghazi report, in the form of an impenetrable Wordpress page that might as well be titled Loose Balls: The Truth About PSI. The site contains an attempt by one of the Patriots’ lawyers to fisk Wells’s report, and although it’s an ...
Robert Kraft Takes Stand In Aaron Hernandez Trial, Explains His "Work"
An under-the-weather Bob Kraft was called as a witness in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial this morning, and he had some trouble explaining to the prosecutor exactly what it is he does for the Patriots. ...
Report: Jets File Retaliatory Tampering Charges Against The Patriots
According to ProFootballTalk, the Jets filed tampering charges today against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who spoke at the NFL owners meetings yesterday about former-Patriot and current-Jet Darrelle Revis. Kraft told CSNNE that the Patriots made two competitive offers to Revis and had ho...
Robert Kraft Doubles Down On Patriots' Innocence, Asks NFL For Apology
Patriots owner Robert Kraft crashed a press conference scheduled for Bill Belichick and Tom Brady in Arizona tonight, telling the assembled media "I want to make it clear that I believe unconditionally that the New England Patriots have done nothing wrong" in response to accusations that they deflat...
Richard Sherman: NFL Won't Punish Patriots Due To "Conflict Of Interest"
The Seahawks have arrived in Arizona, and while many players have declared that it's time to start focusing on football(big game next Sunday, you know) instead of the deflation scandal, Richard Sherman didn't hesitate to fire the first shots and predict the Patriots will get off scot-free because ow...
Robert Kraft Loves His Players A Little Too Much
Here's a tender moment between Patriots owner Bob Kraft and Vince Wilfork. It's sweet, and totally common for owners to share intimacy with their employees....
Aaron Hernandez Evidence Includes 33 Pages Of Texts With Bill Belichick
Documents made public today reveal some of the evidence that prosecutors have turned over to Aaron Hernandez's defense in the Odin Lloyd murder case. Among them, interviews with Patriots higher-ups and whole mess of text messages exchanged between Hernandez and Bill Belichick in the months leading u...
Here's The Letter That Helped Get Aaron Hernandez Drafted By The Pats
Before the 2010 NFL draft, Aaron Hernandez and his agents wrote a letter to Patriots personnel executive Nick Caserio, assuring him that if the Patriots drafted Hernandez they would not have to worry about him smoking weed while playing in the NFL. It was Hernandez's alleged marijuana use while at F...
Parcells And Kraft Both Wish They Hadn't Been Such Dicks Back Then
Bill Parcells and Robert Kraft do not make mistakes. But but... Pete Carroll! Quincy Carter! No. Shut up. Not mistakes. Never mistakes. Just slightly raised cobblestones on the path to greatness....
Vladimir Putin Says He Didn't Steal Bob Kraft's Super Bowl Ring
Yesterday, we wrote about how Russian president Vladimir Putin Deboed Patriots owner Bob Kraft for one of his Super Bowl rings. The story felt too good to be true, which means it might be too good to be true. Kraft's recount of the exchange and Putin's quote, for example, approaches something resemb...
Patriots Owner Claims Vladimir Putin Stole His Super Bowl Ring
Back in 2005, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. Earlier that year, the Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX, and Kraft was wearing the ring he earned from that victory....
Bob Kraft's Girlfriend Didn't Get The Part In That Movie, Despite Her Weird Bikini Audition
It's important to remind everyone that Ricki Lander's audition for The Internship did not require a bikini, nor playing off a 71-year-old man, but she thought it would better her chances to include both. All for naught, as the part of Marielena went to someone else, an actual professional actress...