Deflate-Gate: Tom Brady Suspended Four Games

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1. Boston Globe:

Tom Brady suspended, Patriots fined for Deflategate

Quarterback Tom Brady was suspended four games and the Patriots were fined $1 million and stripped of a first-round draft pick in 2016 for their involvement in the Deflategate scandal, the NFL announced Monday.

The league’s investigation, headed by Ted Wells, found that “it is more probable than not” that Patriots personnel deliberately deflated the team’s footballs in the AFC Championship game and that Brady was aware of it.

Two Patriots staffers — officials locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski — likely “participated in a deliberate effort to release air from Patriots game balls,” the report said.

Wells released his report May 6, more than 15 weeks after the controversy known as “Deflategate” began after the Patriots defeated the Colts, 45-7, on Jan. 18. Shortly after the game, a report emerged that the NFL was investigating the air pressure in the balls the Patriots used in that game.

Even though I don't like Brady or the Pats at all, I find this bread and circus show utterly ridiculous.