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BOSTON — When the Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals to capture the World Series title in 2004 to end their 86-year title drought, Johnny Damon was one of the first to grab the trophy. He immediately found Tim Wakefield – who’d bounced back after...

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FOXBOROUGH — Bill Belichick had a vision of building the kind of sustained championship football team that had rarely been seen before in the NFL when he was hired by the New England Patriots.He walks away feeling like it was a job well done.The...

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FOXBOROUGH — Six-time NFL champion Bill Belichick agreed to part ways as the coach of the New England Patriots on Thursday, bringing an end to his 24-year tenure as the architect of the most decorated dynasty of the league’s Super Bowl era, a person...

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FOXBOROUGH — Bill Belichick’s coaching tenure with the New England Patriots could potentially begin and end with links to the New York Jets.When New England hosts New York on Sunday in the season finale for both teams, it will be just over 24 years...

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When Calvin Ridley was suspended for betting on NFL games in 2022, it was largely dismissed as an isolated incident among the four biggest North American professional leagues in the era of legalized sports gambling.He served a yearlong suspension,...

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BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 22 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter, and the Boston Celtics rallied from 17 points down to beat the Brooklyn Nets 114-107 on Wednesday night and take a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.Jayson Tatum added...

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BOSTON — Nets guard Kyrie Irving has been fined $50,000 for making obscene gestures and directing profane language toward the crowd during Brooklyn’s Game 1 playoff loss to the Celtics. League operations president Byron Spruell announced the fines on...

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FOXBOROUGH — Tom Brady was already the oldest player on the Patriots roster before he stepped out on the practice field for training camp Thursday.He spent the abbreviated workout being constantly reminded he’s now a 40-year-old quarterback.From a...

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BOSTON (AP) — Isaiah Thomas scored 29 points and had 12 assists, Kelly Olynyk scored a career-playoff high 26 points and the Boston Celtics used a big fourth quarter to outlast the Washington Wizards 115-105 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference...

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BOSTON — When you work for the Boston Celtics, there’s no need for daily reminders about your motivations. They’re constantly casting shadows overhead.“There’s only one goal in Boston,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens recently said. “There’s 17 banners...

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FOXBOROUGH — Pete Carroll knows he can’t go back in time to 1997 when he arrived in New England as the Patriots’ giddy 46-year-old new head coach.But if he could, he says he certainly would have done things a lot differently.It’s been 17 years since...