I was sure I'd find one of the teams from my USTA tennis league in this article...
An article in this very newspaper printed this week refutes the findings of the Wells deflategate report and points to an American Enterprise Institute finding that shows that there was in fact no evidence of deflated balls at all. Further not even the discredited Wells report found that Brady knew about this "scheme" as this article alledges... which makes sense, seeing as it has now been proven it never happened:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/opinion/deflating-deflategate.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/opinion/deflating-deflategate.html
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Is it of interest to Mather that an independent analysis (apparently neither haters or backers of Patriots) concluded that Deflategate probably never happened? I guess it doesn't matter to those who think it should have happened.
http://www.aei.org/publication/deflating-deflategate/?gclid=COa-4Zjvl8YC...
http://www.aei.org/publication/deflating-deflategate/?gclid=COa-4Zjvl8YC...
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It's sports. Cheating is part and parcel of sports. Who could possibly care if cheating occurred or not?
Clearly written by a Jets fan (Revis contract interference, anyone?)
And you have published reports indicating deflate gate is an empty fraud perpetrated by the Colts & the NFL.
And you have published reports indicating deflate gate is an empty fraud perpetrated by the Colts & the NFL.
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Puh-leese...McGuire, Sosa, Bonds and Clemens doping to the gills...and of course ALL of the Russian, East German (Russian coaches) then Chinese (East German coaches) women swimmers and runners. And then there was the 1972 Olympic Basketball finals in Munich which had not one, not two but three endings until the USSR finally "won" even though even though one of the refs said the U.S. had won. All of the cited examples are jokes compared to these.
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"The 2007 Formula One espionage controversy, also known as "Spygate" or "Stepneygate", involved allegations that the McLaren Formula One team was passed confidential technical information from the Ferrari team, and that the Renault F1 team was passed confidential technical information from the McLaren team."
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Formula_One_espionage_controversy
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Formula_One_espionage_controversy
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McLaren were not passed information from Ferrari, as some intramural nicety; they had a man on the inside who stole the information.
How can you leave out all the baseball pitchers who doctored the ball and the hitters who doctored the bat? We're talking Joe Niekro, Gaylord Perry, Michael Pineda, Bobby Thomson, Graig Nettles and Sammy Sosa, not to mention the all-time champion cheater, John McGraw, and saying nothing of the managers and coaches who stole signs.
Get real. When it comes to team sports, cheating is part of the game and a lot of the fun for fans.
Get real. When it comes to team sports, cheating is part of the game and a lot of the fun for fans.
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You're joking, right? "Deflategate" is a bigger scandal than the Saints setting bounties on opposing players? That's some weird hierarchy of harm.
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You show typical bias by putting the Patriots at 2 and 3 without ever mentioning bountygate or pumping in crowd noise or a Gm texting coaches on the field. Ted Wells was told the result the NFL wanted to feed red meat to the masses of Patriots haters and he did as he was told and prepared a report that was clearly bias. That is also a scandal.
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How can you leave out the 49ers and their undisclosed contracts that violated the salary cap and allowed them to assemble and maintain a team that won several super bowls? Also, if you were current you'd know that there recently has been raised serious questions about the measurements of the Patriots footballs at halftime which throws the conclusions of the Wells Report into question.
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It is ridiculous to put Deflategate in the same list as Calciopoli and leave out doping in baseball, cycling and the Olympics.
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Patriots on here twice, I see.
And no mention of Bobby Thomson.
And no mention of Bobby Thomson.
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What about the Denver Broncos violating the salary cap in their Super Bowl seasons to pay their two biggest stars, John Elway and Terrel Davis? Seems like a bigger competitive advantage to me than under-inflated footballs (although media attention wasn't as strong back then, so maybe that explains why it doesn't ring a bell).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28969-2004Sep17.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28969-2004Sep17.html
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lets not forget the Hanson brothers
Cycling is a team sport. Lance Armstrong and "The Postal Boys" deserve slot.
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I think you are missing the spy scandal between McLaren and Ferrari in Formula One where McLaren was fined more than $100 Million.
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How could you not include McLaren F1 recruiting a mole in Ferrari and stealing Ferrari's F1 team's intellectual assets in 2007, resulting in McLaren's exclusion from that year's championship and fine of $100million?
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In the interest of accuracy, the "deflate gate" investigation did not find that Brady was aware of the deflation. It was the investigator's opinion that he (Brady) was probably or more likely than not aware of it.
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And what Brooklyn Dodger fan can forget that the 1951 NY Giants stole signs to enable the 'Mriacle' of Coogan's Bluff?
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How could you leave out the USPS sponsored cycling team that facilitated and covered up for Lance Armstrong?
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Where's that coverage of a scientifically proven cheater?