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Four years after largely negating kickoffs by moving them forward, the NFL has enlivened point-after touchdown (PAT) attempts by moving them backward.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced that his team will “accept reluctantly” the punishments inflicted upon it by the NFL in the wake of the Wells Report.

The New England Patriots and the NFL pursue “back-channel conversations” to resolve the standoff between the league and the team on punishment over Deflategate, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Not a single free man sought to escape the North to enslave himself in the South during the short history of the Underground Railroad. On Monday, a linebacker who dubbed his time with the New England Patriots “4 years a slave” re-signed with his former master.

Under Armour has removed a t-shirt based on the iconic Joe Rosenthal photograph showing a half-dozen servicemen planting the American Flag on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi.

The NFL Players Association has come out swinging on behalf of its most famous member.

Notre Dame standout Pat Connaughton out-leaped everyone at the NBA Combine on Thursday. Caucasians, rejoice! White men, or at least one white man, can indeed jump.

The NFL Players Association has issued an appeal of Tom Brady’s four-game suspension on behalf of the Super Bowl MVP.

The New England Patriots today issued their own report on the Wells Report.

The New England Patriots kickoff the NFL season with a Thursday night game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Gillette Stadium. Tom Brady won’t be there. Will Roger Goodell?

Deflategate, already offered as a for-credit college course at the University of New Hampshire, has now become a protest movement.

Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather may not have lived up to the hype in the ring. It did on the accountant’s ledger.

The NFL suspended Tom Brady four games and snatched $1 million and first- and fourth-round draft picks from the New England Patriots based on the Wells Report’s Deflategate findings. The Brady punishment’s odds of surviving appeal appear somewhat less than the quarterback’s odds of entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft offered full-throated support for his suspended quarterback and blasted the NFL’s punishment of Tom Brady and his team as biased.

Don Yee, Tom Brady’s agent, fired back at the NFL by calling the league’s four-game suspension of Tom Brady “ridiculous” and illegitimate.

NFL executive Troy Vincent added insult to injury in a scolding letter to Tom Brady, suspended four games by the league because an investigator found it “more probable than not” that the New England Patriots quarterback knew of a conspiracy to deflate footballs, a scheme also deemed “more probable than not.”

The Suffolk County, Massachusetts, district attorney announced new witness intimidation charges for Aaron Hernandez today based on a grand-jury indictment on Friday.

Canelo Alvarez and James Kirkland ran toward each other instead of away. They didn’t need the help of three judges to decide a winner.

The top pick in last week’s NFL Draft has filed counterclaims in U.S. District Court in Orlando against the woman who accused him of rape.

Tom Brady’s long-linked rival Peyton Manning won’t go there.

Deflategate moves from everyone’s living room to one professor’s classroom this fall. The University of New Hampshire offers students a for-credit course titled simply, “Deflategate.”

It’s not what he said. It’s where he said it.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spoke publicly for the first time since the release on the Wells Report at a raucous lecture-hall event at Salem State University in northeast Massachusetts.

The transparency standards for an NFL quarterback rising higher than for the Secretary of State surely speaks to the bread-and-circuses quality of modern America.

When Bill Belichick alleged that atmospheric conditions played a role in naturally depressurizing footballs back in January, he elicited widespread ridicule by the news media. But the release of the Wells Report affirms his analysis, however rudimentary, as correct.

In an animated statement issued by the team, Patriots owner Bob Kraft accuses Ted Wells of misleading the public on an important point in his report and points out that that a majority of Colts game balls inspected at halftime registered a reading below the league’s mandated psi level by at least one referee’s gauge.

This year’s Wells Report on Deflate-gate, in contrast to last year’s Wells Report on the Dolphins bullying scandal, reads long on innuendo and short on facts. It presents conclusions at odds with the evidence.

A report by Ted Wells to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on the “deflate-gate” controversy judges it “more probable than not” that employees of the New England Patriots deliberately let air out of balls before the AFC Championship Game in January.

NFL Combine drug-test failure Randy Gregory vowed to demonstrate new-found maturity to the team that drafted him. Days after his selection by the Dallas Cowboys, the University of Nebraska pass rusher tattooed the franchise’s iconic star onto his arm.

Striking a blow against the inherent racism, sexism, and homophobia of sideline mascots, or, alternatively, signifying the fast approach of the apocalypse, the Rutgers University Student Assembly voted overwhelmingly to introduce the school’s Scarlet Knight as homosexual, female, transgender, and in various racial incarnations.

Fans slam athletes who sit with injuries. Now two fight fans sue Manny Pacquiao for performing with an injury.

The UFC took Jon Jones’s belt from him. Jon Jones may take the UFC’s best fighter from the promotion.

You can take away their flagship public university’s nickname, but you can never take away North Dakota’s sense of humor.

hree million people paid for boxing. The cable companies gave them “Dancing with the Stars” instead. One needn’t work in a laboratory to grasp that this does not bode well for the sweet science.

Floyd Mayweather may retire later this year as the only boxer to take more from the ring than he left in it. And for that we hate him.

Floyd Mayweather won a unanimous decision victory over Manny Pacquiao in the most lucrative fight in boxing history.