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| Belichick: 'There was no deception' in videotaping opponents |
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05/16/2008 |
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| sistant.'' Belichick's comments came on the same day the Boston Herald printed a front-page apology by reporter John Tomase, who wrote on the day before New England's Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants this year that the Patriots had taped the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough before the 2002 NFL title game. Under the headline: ``How it went wrong,'' Tomase wrote that he heard rumors the team's cheating was more widespread than the league had already acknowledged. But when he learned the team's video crew h |
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| Boston Herald reporter explains walkthrough story |
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05/16/2008 |
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| Boston, MA (MySportsbook) - Boston Herald reporter John Tomase said he "couldn't have been more wrong" in his story about the New England Patriots taping the walkthrough of the St. Louis Rams before Super Bowl XXXVI. On February 2, the Herald ran a story written by Tomase that said a member of the Patriots' video staff taped the Rams' walkthrough the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. Tomase, in an article in Friday's Boston Herald, detailed how the story evolved. He said people he trusted told him the walkthrou |
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| Boston Herald reporter expresses regret over Spygate story |
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05/16/2008 |
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BOSTON (AP) -The Boston Herald sports writer who reported the New England Patriots taped a pre-Super Bowl walkthrough by the St. Louis Rams in 2002 said he will regret the erroneous story for the rest of his life. ``First and foremost, this is about a writer breaking one of the cardinal rules of journalism. I failed to keep challenging what I had been told,'' wrote John Tomase in Friday's editions of the newspaper. Tomase explained what led up to the publication of the Feb. 2 story, which appeared one |
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| Former Patriots assistant can't recall talk |
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05/15/2008 |
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NEW YORK (AP) - Former New England assistant coach Brian Daboll told the NFL he doesn't remember speaking with Matt Walsh about the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough Walsh attended the day before the 2002 Super Bowl. Even if Daboll and New England's former video assistant did speak about it, ``it would not be a violation of NFL rules,'' the league said Thursday. Walsh met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday about videotaping procedures used by the Patriots. Walsh said during the meeting that he ha |
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| Sen. Specter wants independent investigation into Spygate |
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05/15/2008 |
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| son where they can let their play on the field speak for itself.'' Patriots spokesman Stacey James said the team had no comment on Specter's remarks. Earlier Wednesday, the Boston Herald apologized for a story that said the Patriots videotaped a St. Louis Rams walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl. In the apology, published in the newspaper's Wednesday edition and posted on its Web site, the Herald said the story was based on sources ``it believed to be credible.'' ``We now know that this report was |
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| Kraft feels vindicated by Boston Herald apology |
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05/14/2008 |
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| de had spied on opponents. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell found no more wrongdoing by New England, which had been punished for taping New York Jets coaches in the 2007 season opener. Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh produced no tape of a St. Louis Rams walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl while meeting with Goodell on Tuesday. And the newspaper that first reported on Feb. 2 the existence of such a tape said it had made a mistake and apologized in headlines on the front and back pages and in a |
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| Kraft pleased with Boston Herald's apology |
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05/14/2008 |
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft complimented the Boston Herald on Wednesday for apologizing for a story that said his team videotaped a St. Louis Rams walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl. He's ``very disappointed,'' though, that the newspaper ``wrote a story that was completely false and unsubstantiated,'' Kraft said in an interview with The Associated Press. He also said he doesn't know why former New England video assistant Matt Walsh didn't refute the story soon a |
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| Specter calls for Mitchell-like investigation of NFL |
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05/14/2008 |
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| hat he knew about the team's videotaping practices. Walsh sent the NFL eight tapes showing that the team recorded play-calling signals by coaches of five opponents over six games between 2000 and 2002. However, the tapes did not include video of the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI, which Walsh had been rumored to possess. The taping of such signals is in violation of league rules. After the meeting, the NFL played the tapes Walsh provided. The clips cut from shots of opposing co |
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| Newspaper apologizes for Spygate error |
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05/14/2008 |
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| k) - The Boston Herald apologized to its readers and the New England Patriots for shoddy reporting during the NFL's "Spygate" affair. On February 2, the newspaper reported that a member of the New England Patriots' video staff, Matt Walsh, taped the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. On Tuesday, Walsh met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for over three hours to discuss what he knew about the team's videotaping practices. Walsh sent the NFL eight tapes showing that the Pats reco |
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| Newspaper says Spygate story false, apologizes |
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05/14/2008 |
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BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Herald apologized Wednesday for falsely reporting the New England Patriots videotaped a walkthrough by the St. Louis Rams a day before the 2002 Super Bowl. The Herald apology come a day after a meeting between NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh produced no major revelations about the team's taping procedures. Walsh told Goodell he did not tape the walkthrough and had no knowledge that any other Patriots employees did so. The Herald's |
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