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Report -- Tight ends coach Mangurian leaving Patriots

3:05 PM Fri, Jan 23, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

The Boston Globe reports that tight ends coach Pete Mangurian is the latest member of Bill Belichick's 2008 coaching staff who will not return to the team for the 2009 season. The newspaper quotes an unnamed league source. Mangurian has......

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Football Today -- All those who like Pat Patriot, rise up

12:40 PM Fri, Jan 23, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

Random notes on an uneventful Friday, more than a week away from the Super Bowl: THEY'RE OLD SCHOOL: According to a Globe survey, fans easily prefer the old Pat Patriot logo to the Flying Elvis unveiled at the start of......

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Morris wins Ed Block Courage Award

5:15 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Shalise Manza Young    Email

Patriots running back Sammy Morris was selected by his teammates as the recipient of the 2008 Ed Block Courage Award. The honor is voted on by teammates and bestowed annually upon the player who best exemplifies the principles of courage......

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Belichick analyzes Super Bowl, rues regular-season loss to Steelers

4:59 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Art Martone    Email

Patriots coach Bill Belichick, interviewed by Foxsports.com's Alex Marvez last weekend at the Senior Bowl, thinks the upcoming Super Bowl between the Steelers and Cardinals will go to the team "that takes care of the ball and doesn't give up......

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Watson to raffle off Super Bowl tix

4:40 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Shalise Manza Young    Email

Patriots' tight end Benjamin Watson is raffling off his pair of tickets for next Sunday's Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Fla. The proceeds will benefit his One More foundation. In a press release Watson said, "I would have liked to......

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Football Today -- Roethlisberger's extra motivation; you can be a Dallas Cowboy

steelers0122.jpg 12:01 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

THEY DON'T WANT THE DRAMA: Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger are both going out of their way to downplay reports of a feud between them that date back to Whisenhunt's days in Pittsburgh. Both of them......

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Patriots unveil 50th anniversary logo (photo)

patriotslogo.jpg 11:29 AM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Shalise Manza Young    Email

The Patriots today released a new logo in honor of their 50th season, which they will celebrate in 2009. The logo includes both of the team's historic logos: "Pat Patriot," which they used from their inception in 1960 through the......

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Bill O'Brien, coach rising with Patriots, played and coached at Brown

10:50 AM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

Bill O'Brien, the man reportedly tapped by the Patriots to be quarterbacks coach and to assume some of the duties of offensive coordinator, was a linebacker and defensive end at Brown University from 1990 to 1992. After graduating, he began......

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Report -- Patriots promote O'Brien to take over many of McDaniels' coaching duties

8:40 AM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

The Boston Globe is reporting today that, according to two unnamed sources, the Patriots will promote former wide receivers coach Bill O'Brien to quarterbacks coach; O'Brien will also inherit some of the offensive coordinator's responsibilities. Josh McDaniels, who was quarterbacks......

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Brady's radio appearance sheds little light on his knee rehab

6:44 PM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Art Martone    Email

Those who tuned into Canadian radio tonight hoping to hear Tom Brady reassure Patriots Nation that he'll be ready for the start of next season were disappointed. Because he wasn't asked the question. Other than a generic "How's the rehab......

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Tom Brady to do radio interview today

3:54 PM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will give an interview with a Toronto radio station today at 5:30, what the station says will be Brady's first detailed comments since he suffered a season-ending knee injury in September. Here's the link to the......

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Patriots the early, early favorites to win next year's Super Bowl

10:27 AM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

By Larry DiTore Bloomberg The New England Patriots, who failed to make the National Football League playoffs this season, are favored to win the Super Bowl next year by Las Vegas oddsmakers. The Patriots, with former Most Valuable Player Tom......

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Football Today -- In defense of Boldin; vandals leave a key piece of evidence at McNabb's house

boldin0121.jpg 10:26 AM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

Anquan Boldin is a tough and productive player, not a person who likes to call attention to himself, a very popular teammate and the director of a foundation that has helped countless underprivileged children. And yet here he is, about......

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Football Today -- Is Ray Lewis the man to fix the 'undisciplined' Cowboys?

lewis0120.jpg 12:03 PM Tue, Jan 20, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

NEEDED: AN ENFORCER: Many of us suspected all season that there was plenty of chaos in the locker room of the Dallas Cowboys, so it is kind of an eye-opener to read in the Dallas Morning News that, according to......

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Football Today -- In the Super Bowl, experience counts for something

11:42 AM Mon, Jan 19, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

EXPERIENCE COUNTS: When the Arizona Cardinals face the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII, it will be the first Super Bowl appearance in the history of the Arizona franchise, and the seventh in the history of the Steelers. The game......

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Packers take Capers as defensive coordinator

7:30 AM Mon, Jan 19, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Mike McDermott    Email

Dom Capers, the veteran coach who spent last season as special assistant under Bill Belichick in New England, has accepted an offer to become defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Capers,......

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