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Getty Images Rob Gronkowski’s second career is off to a pretty good start. Although he was serving only as a host for the event, the former Patriots tight end won the WWE 24/7 championship at WrestleMania. It’s a title that apparently must be defended at any time, as long as a WWE referee is...

Getty Images Former Jets and Bills coach Rex Ryan made waves last week when he called Cowboys wide receiver Amari Cooper a “turd” during an appearance on ESPN and the comment reached a wider audience when the network promoted the comment on social media. Ryan apologized for using that term...

Getty Images The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s selection committee voted on which players would be named to the NFL’s All-Decade team for the 2010s and the results of that vote were announced on Monday. Eight players were unanimous choices, including Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady. Brady, who...

Getty Images Despite the availability of an unprecedented number of veteran quarterbacks, the Patriots most likely won’t be replacing Tom Brady with an established signal-caller. They instead seem to be far more inclined to consider adding a rookie. Mike Reiss of ESPN.com reports that the...

Getty Images Cam Newton has faced Bill Belichick twice. Cam Newton has beaten Bill Belichick twice. Cam Newton is a free agent. But Bill Belichick has shown no inclination to adopt the manta, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” Scott Pioli, who won three Super Bowl rings setting the personnel...

Getty Images Julian Edelman has not signed a contract with the Lions. Despite what you may have heard. On April 1, Bill Simmons went on Colin Cowherd’s show, and both Simmons and Cowherd talked about an Edelman-to-Detroit “report” that was actually an April Fools’ Day prank. “Even Edelman, it...

Getty Images If it was anybody else other than the greatest player of all time asking, it’s unlikely Chris Godwin would have given up No. 12. But when it’s Tom Brady asking. . . “Yeah, for me, I’ve worn No. 12 since I was in high school,” Godwin said in an interview with Albert Breer of...

Getty Images So much for that Boston-New York rivalry. Patriots owner Robert Kraft, appearing Thursday night on CNN, explained why he wanted to purchase and send to New York City 300,000 of the 1.2 million N95 masks the team’s plane retrieved from China. “I’ve been watching Governor [Andrew]...

Getty Images Peyton Manning never stopped looking for an edge, and one of his longtime rivals says that was particularly true over drinks. Hall of Fame cornerback Ty Law said this week on WEEI that Manning used to buy him drinks in Hawaii when the two were at the Pro Bowl together, hoping to...

Getty Images The GOAT meets the GOAT. Next Wednesday, Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady will appear on Howard Stern’s radio show, for the first time. SiriusXM exclusively broadcasts Stern’s show. (PFT Live appears weekdays on SiriusXM 211. That has no relevance to this story. I just felt like...

Hollywood Brown on Twitter Lamar Jackson is working out in South Florida with a pair of buddies with the last name Brown. One is his teammate Marquise Hollywood Brown. The other? Antonio Brown. On his Instagram account, the Ravens quarterback posted a video of Antonio Brown catching a 50-yard...

Getty Images San Francisco wide receivers coach Wes Welker spent six seasons playing for Bill Belichick in New England. The two didn’t always see eye to eye, and now that Welker is coaching, he thinks about how his own approach is different than Belichick’s. Asked on WEEI if leaving New...

Getty Images In these trying times, the New England Patriots are living up to their nickname. As first reported by Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal, the Patriots sent one of their planes to Chine to retrieve 1.2 million N95 masks from China for use by American health-care workers. Per...

Getty Images The Bills aren’t counting on the Patriots to take a step backward in the AFC East just because Tom Brady is gone. Bills General Manager Brandon Beane said he thought his team would still have to face Brady twice this season, but the news that Brady is now a Buccaneer didn’t change...

Getty Images Running back James White met with members of the media on Thursday, which meant it was his turn to answer questions about what the team will do at quarterback now that Tom Brady is down in Tampa. Cody Kessler was released on Wednesday in a move that leaves Jarrett Stidham and...

Getty Images Nepotism is as much a part of the NFL as is the league’s ubiquitous shield. And the franchise that has dominated the NFL for much of the past two decades has a clear and obvious nepotism situation playing out in plain sight. Steve Belichick, the 32-year-old son of legendary...

Getty Images More football, in most cases, is always good. More playoff games definitely are good. But here’s one thing that may not be so good: The official expansion of the field from 12 teams to 14 places a gigantic premium on earning the top seed in each conference. The No. 1 seeds become...

Getty Images Patriots center David Andrews didn’t realize how much danger he was in last offseason. And it took a doctor telling him he had more pressing issues than walking his dogs for him to understand that. Via NBCSportsBoston.com, Andrews said in an interview with Rusty Mansell of...

Getty Images Tom Brady reportedly were interested in the Colts, but the Colts ultimately weren’t interested in Brady. The Colts nevertheless did plenty og homework on the greatest quarterback in NFL history. “I will tell you that I looked at his tape,” Colts coach Frank Reich said Tuesday...

Getty Images The Patriots have lost another quarterback. This one will probably not cause as much of a stir. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Patriots are releasing quarterback Cody Kessler. The Patriots signed him last September, cut him in October, and later re-signed him. The...