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Belichick, McVay to match wits on Sunday

ATLANTA – Bummer. Maroon 5 backed out of doing the annual Super Bowl halftime entertainment press conference this week, something to do with all the Colin Kaepernick never ending controversies. That’s OK. They wouldn’t have been on par with Madonna, Lady Gaga, etc. NFL Commissioner ...

Atlanta fears being snowed under, but not by Brady

ATLANTA -- It’s a simple question that had to be asked. Which are the good folks of Atlanta, Ga., more afraid of, being haunted by the memory of 28-3, or the threat of snow? The answer came back on Tuesday almost unanimous – snow. Schools were closed in the Atlanta area on Tuesday. City ...

Counting days until pitchers, catchers (and labor issues) report

When the Super Bowl can’t serve as a cover for unhappy news from elsewhere in the little world of big-league sports, the clouds are particularly foreboding. Ken Rosenthal has a story on The Athletic’s web page guaranteed to chasten the enthusiasm of anyone who has been faithfully marking ...

Super Bowl distractions can always lead a team astray

The big show that is called “Opening Night” is done. Now the rest of Super Bowl week can likely proceed with some normalcy. The Patriots are going to need just that. They're going to need the approach they've taken in Super Bowls past, when it's all hands on deck. So far, so good. Drama ...

Will Patriots homecoming be as good as their send-off?

Rally Day has come and gone. So has Departure Day. Super Bowl LIII Week has begun. The Bye Week is over, and now the hype all begins in earnest. The New England Patriots and their fans got a taste of it with a massive sendoff from Gillette Stadium, as what looked like from camera shots a ...

Calhoun: First you don’t see him, then you do

They came, but they did not see. That’s why midway through the first half of Saturday’s men’s basketball game at a packed Rivier Univeristy’s Muldoon Center, during a ridiculous delay with an officiating issue, the fans began to shout, “Where’s Calhoun?” Good question. The ...