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December 30, 2007 - January 5, 2008 Archives
2:46 PM Sat, Jan 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young  Email
Tom Brady's record-setting regular season earned him the NFL's most valuable player award. Brady is the first Patriots player to earn NFL MVP honors; Gino Cappeletti and Jim Nance won AFL honors in the 1960s. "As I have learned over......
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1:27 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Journal photo / Bob Breidenbach The New England Patriots practice this afternoon in the practice bubble at Gillette. Junior Seau, Mike Vrabel (#50) and Tedy Bruschi stretch at the start of practice. The Patriots have a bye week this......
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12:10 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Hey all -- We've wrapped up the chatty portion of the day here at Gillette, and are waiting to head out to the team's practice session, which once again will be held inside the Dana-Farber Fieldhouse. Bill Belichick opened his......
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8:06 PM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
The Patriots have released a statement from offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, who reportedly had received interest from Baltimore and Atlanta for their head coaching openings: "I am very grateful for the chance to interview for NFL head coaching positions but......
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2:46 PM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Journal photo / Mary Murphy Head coach Bill Belichick answers questions from reporters Thursday as the Patriots returned to practice after time-off since last Saturday's win against the Giants. Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots was named the......
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2:07 PM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
Happy New Year, everyone. We’re definitely in one. It’s a privilege, of course, to be involved in the second season here in the NFL, the new one where everybody’s undefeated and we’re all starting at the bottom. We’re going to......
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1:16 PM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
As we wrote earlier, the Patriots are practicing indoors today with the sub-zero temperatures outside and are in full pads. Five players were missing from media access: Asante Samuel, Ty Warren, Ellis Hobbs, Nick Kaczur and Kyle Eckel. Two players......
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12:12 PM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Hey all -- Bill Belichick and the Patriots are back to work today after the players had four days off to rest and enjoy their accomplishments during the regular season. Belichick called it a privilege to be involved in the......
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9:04 AM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Rich Lee Email
Jim Donaldson taps Randy Moss and Wes Welker as the perfect combination in the Patriots' sensational receiving corps, and Shalise Manza Young adds more on the Patriots' 16-0 regular season. Also, URI routs Fairleigh Dickinson University last night, while PC......
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6:16 PM Wed, Jan 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Tom Brady was today named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week, the fifth time this season he has gotten the honor. It was also the 10th time a Patriots player won an AFC weekly honor during the course of......
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1:21 PM Wed, Jan 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Shalise Manza Young and Mike McDermott discuss the Patriots' win over the Giants and look ahead to possible playoff foes. Click on the play button below to see and hear the show.......
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9:48 AM Wed, Jan 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Rich Lee Email
Shalise Manza Young writes on the "Pats' trip to perfection." Also, get Paul Kenyon's take on why the URI men's basketball team has improved so dramatically, as well as Bill Reynold's view of this year's PC hoops season. Download file......
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5:43 PM Tue, Jan 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
The Patriots have announced that a limited number of tickets are still available for the team's AFC Divisional round playoff game on Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. The tickets will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m., but there are......
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11:20 AM Tue, Jan 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
BY JIM DONALDSON Journal Sports Writer It's certainly a Happy New Year for R.I. native A.J. Smith, the general manager of the San Diego Chargers. Smith, a Cranston native who played high school football at Bishop Hendricken, and began his......
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2:15 PM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
Greed is good -- if you're the NFL, and the networks that televise the league's games. But not if you're a fan of the New England Patriots. In what clearly was a matter of dollars and cents, rather than......
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10:00 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's sports cover chronicles all 16 of the Patriots' regular-season wins in this record-setting season. Download a copy of today's sports cover in .pdf format.......
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7:20 PM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Randy Moss's sense of comic timing is impeccable. At his press conference last night, Moss was asked what he thinks of the international coverage his team has received -- the questioner was a journalist who flew in from Japan. "I've......
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2:30 AM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – It was one throw. One long, beautifully executed pass play. But its completion, aside from being a thing of beauty, was historic. In one pass from Tom Brady to Randy Moss, the New England Patriots......
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2:08 AM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
E. RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Bill Belichick was excited. No kidding, he really was. Which shows you just how big a deal it was that the Patriots beat the Giants, 38-35, Saturday night and became the first team in NFL......
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1:37 AM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
E. RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It wasn't surpassing Jerry Rice that made Randy Moss happiest, it was silencing his critics. "I don't think me breaking Jerry Rice's record was special," Moss said at his post-game press conference. "I think shutting......
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1:15 AM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
In the Giants’ locker room after the game, the buzz word was “momentum.” As in, New York feels it has good momentum going as it prepares for a first-round playoff game in Tampa Bay next weekend despite the loss to......
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1:08 AM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
E. RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- "Mike Vrabel is a guy who I'm not surprised by anything he's able to do." So said Richard Seymour after Vrabel put the finishing touch on the Patriots' perfect season by cleanly catching Lawrence Tynes'......
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12:57 AM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Some things are just harder for some people to let go of than others. After New England’s win over Miami last night to seal an undefeated regular season, the always-outstanding Dolphins media relations staff sent out some quotes from members......
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12:26 AM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
E. RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- "It doesn't get any better than that," said Tom Brady, flashing that winning smile. It surely does not get any better than 16 wins in 16 games -- a perfect record in what, so far,......
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