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Hey Bucs Nation! While we wait for the season to being I've got a question for you guys: what will next year's trap game be? I feel every year the Bucs always beat a team they shouldn't have and / or lose against a team they shouldn't have. Each team will be judged by their record from the previous year compared to the Bucs record (7-9). To make things easier I took away division rivals so you can't pick the Saints, Falcons, or Panthers. For the purposes of this topic Miami and the teams we lost to last year but still ended with a worse record than the Bucs are in the losing team category. So who do you think it'll be? Which Team With A Winning Record Will We Upset? @NE (12-4) SF (11-4-1) @SEA (11-5) @STL (7-8-1) Which Team With A Losing Record Will We Be Upset By? MIA (7-9) @NYJ (6-10) BUF (6-10) ARI (5-11) DET (4-12) PHI (4-12) For the losing record team, I feel like Arizona will be the team. Their defense is underrated with them finishing fifth in passing yards allowed (though they did suck against the run) and with the addition of Palmer, Fitzgerald has someone who knows how to throw the ball. Though Palmer is on the downward slope of his career, he still put up over 4000 yards with 22 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. I'm sure Revis will be all over Fitzgerald but I can see this being the one we let slip away. For the winning record team, the easy answer is St Louis. It's hard to win in Seattle plus I don't like East Coast teams traveling to play on the West Coast. Though on paper, the pass defense is much improved I don't think we can stop Brady and Belichick in New England. San Francisco at home? We would need a lot of things to go our away with their dominant defense and one of last year's phenom in Colin Kaepernick. I would add a poll but it would have to be two polls and I don't think this page allows that. Hey Bucs Nation! While we wait for the season to being I've got a question for you guys: what will next year's trap game be? I feel every year the Bucs always beat a team they shouldn't have and / or lose against a team they shouldn't have. Each team will be judged by their record from the previous year compared to the Bucs record (7-9). To make things easier I took away division rivals so you can't pick the Saints, Falcons, or Panthers. For the purposes of this topic Miami and the teams we lost to last year but still ended with a worse record than the Bucs are in the losing team category. So who do you think it'll be? Which Team With A Winning Record Will We Upset? @NE (12-4) SF (11-4-1) @SEA (11-5) @STL (7-8-1) Which Team With A Losing Record Will We Be Upset By? MIA (7-9) @NYJ (6-10) BUF (6-10) ARI (5-11) DET (4-12) PHI (4-12) For the losing record team, I feel like Arizona will be the team. Their defense is underrated with them finishing fifth in passing yards allowed (though they did suck against the run) and with the addition of Palmer, Fitzgerald has someone who knows how to throw the ball. Though Palmer is on the downward slope of his career, he still put up over 4000 yards with 22 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. I'm sure Revis will be all over Fitzgerald but I can see this being the one we let slip away. For the winning record team, the easy answer is St Louis. It's hard to win in Seattle plus I don't like East Coast teams traveling to play on the West Coast. Though on paper, the pass defense is much improved I don't think we can stop Brady and Belichick in New England. San Francisco at home? We would need a lot of things to go our away with their dominant defense and one of last year's phenom in Colin Kaepernick. I would add a poll but it would have to be two polls and I don't think this page allows that.

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The New England Patriots moved their Hall of Fame induction ceremony to July 29 instead of the previously announced date of August 11.Read the full original article...

Some disturbing news has emerged regarding one of the Patriots stars in a story that appears to be developing Tuesday night.The post Patriots Aaron Hernandez Reportedly Being Questioned By Police In Connection of Homicide Probe appeared first on Ian's New England Patriots Blog.

Former Chicago Blackhawks right winger Tony Amonte is entitled to his opinion. He just may want to check his facts before he opens his mouth.Amonte, who played for the 'Hawks for part of nine seasons, took Marian Hossa to task on Tuesday. Following Hossa's absence in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final between Chicago and the Boston Bruins, Amonte called Hossa's injury into question.Amonte, who is doing analyst work for Comcast SportsNet New England, made the following statement Monday:Marian Hossa ... I admire the way he plays, he's a very good player, he's got a Stanley Cup on his résumé, but he's not the guy with the highest pain threshold in the NHL. If you look back to his stats and you look throughout his career, he usually plays about 60 games, takes about 20 or 30 off every year just to make sure he's fresh coming into the postseason. He's not a guy that will play through a lot of injuries."Amonte expounded on Hossa Tuesday on the "Mut and Merloni Show" on Boston's WEEI-FM, saying the following to Mike Mutnanski and Lou Merloni:You're in the Stanley Cup finals. I think you play until you can't play anymore. You give whatever you can to your organization and that's the way most guys will do it. That's what [Bruins forward] Nathan Horton's doing right now. He's probably got no right being out on the ice with that shoulder the way it is, but he's going to gut it out, play the next possibly four games at the most and then go in, get his shoulder fixed and be ready for the next season.The above quote comes from ESPNChicago.com's report on Hossa's injury. In another report Tuesday, Scott Powers of ESPNChicago.com wrote that Hossa is likely to play in Game 4 Wednesday.Joel Quenneville told Powers that Hossa is suffering from an upper-body injury. Amonte claimed to Mutnanski and Lou Merloni he heard it was a groin injury.Amonte weighed in on the 'Hawks performance and made some valid points on Chicago's game. He was pretty even-handed with his thoughts on the Blackhawks and their performance in the series. It is odd that he went off on Hossa the way he did.Amonte claims that the usual Hossa season is 60 games. Hossa has played 15 seasons in the NHL. In seven of those seasons, he's played over 80 games. In three others, Hossa has logged at least 72 games. Hossa played seven games as a call-up late in the the 1997-98 season, so let's focus on the 14 full seasons he has played.There are three seasons that have any resemblance to Amonte's claim to a "normal" Hossa campaign:1998-99: 60 games in his rookie season.2009-10: 57 games in his first season with the 'Hawks. Remember, he missed the first couple of months recovering from shoulder surgery. He certainly wasn't coasting for the playoffs.2010-11: 65 games in a season when he was out with a couple of injuries. Again, most of those injuries came in the first half of the seasonThree seasons out of 14. That is far from a frequent occurrence.Amonte is a former player and I defer to him as far as his wealth of hockey knowledge. If he wants to question Hossa's toughness, that's his business. However, his claim that Hossa sits out 20-30 games a year has no basis in fact.

North Attleboro, MA — New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was questioned by Attleboro police investigating a possible homicide Monday. The body of a 27-year-old Boston man was discovered in a clearing between John Dietsch Boulevard and Landry Avenue around 5:30 pm Monday. The body was found by a jogger and may have been there for more than a day, but it was unclear whether the victim died there or if the body was dumped. The body was found less than a mile from Hernandez’s home, and although police referred to the victim as an “associate” of Hernandez, the 23-year-old is not a suspect. However, a vehicle rented in his name surfaced as a key piece of evidence in the case. Tuesday, police identified a 2013 Chevrolet Suburban with Rhode Island license plates in connection with the possible homicide. The vehicle is registered to Enterprise, and investigators are analyzing the Suburban for fingerprints. There were about 10 cars parked in front of Hernandez’s home, as well as an unmarked car blocking the driveway. A man came out of the house and asked police why they were blocking the driveway, and 20 minutes later, police entered the home. Two men left with the officers, but neither was in custody. Local police have declined to comment on the investigation. Calls should instead be directed to the Bristol County District Attorney’s office. The district attorney’s office said, “As the investigation is in its early stages, no further details about this case will be released at this time.” ABC News has cited two law enforcement sources as saying that Aaron Hernandez has been uncooperative with police since the body was found. A New England Patriots official, Stacey James, said, “I am aware of the reports, but I do not anticipate that we will be commenting publicly during an ongoing police investigation.” Hernandez signed a five-year, $40 million deal with the Patriots in August 2012. Hernandez had a “minor scope” procedure done on his arm in April and could miss up to four months while he recovers from the surgery. [Photo credit: Jeffrey Beall / Flickr] Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez Questioned In Murder Investigation is a post from: The Inquisitr

Police questioned New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Monday i connection with a homicide case in Massachusetts, SI.com reported Tuesday.

A new TfL website is on the way. It's been kept under wraps for a while, but was recently shown to select media partners and invited bloggers. Now the rest of us can take a peek. Fancy having a play? The new website is available in beta at beta.tfl.gov.uk. Or at least some of it is. TfL are releasing their latest creation bit by bit, starting with the function they think you're going to use most. It's the Journey Planner, which now becomes Plan My Journey, given pole position top left. Beneath that is My Status, previously Live Travel News, which is another signal of things to come. TfL are offering a website you can partially personalise, one that remembers your journeys and can be taught which lines you use. Much more importantly, they're taking a huge leap into the future and designing a website that's mobile first. Essentially you'll have an app in your pocket, that's appears to be the plan, helping you to move around the capital more efficiently. Most of the site is currently off-limits, so often you'll find yourself on the "the feature you’ve selected is not available yet, please come back soon" page. Even line status isn't quite ready, although it appears the home page will only show you which lines are disrupted, not which have a good service. Which leaves journey planning as the main function to explore. I thought I'd have a go at getting from A to B to test the site out, and here's what I found. Journey 1: Tottenham Court Road to East Finchley, today, 12 noon. As soon as you start typing in the first box, a list of possible starting points comes up. By the time you've typed "tot" the list of options is down to four, and Tottenham Court Road is easily selected. This has three tiny icons next to it - a bus, a tube roundel and a mysterious yellow square which (it took me ages to discover) means coach. Typing the E of East Finchley brings up another long list, in which (highly suspiciously) the top two options are the two cablecar terminals. I wonder if that's an accident, or if someone deliberately nudged the sponsor higher in the ranking. The word Emirates certainly seems to be appearing more than it deserves on the beta homepage. There are then two options, as there are now, either to depart "now" or at a time of your choice (to the nearest quarter hour). Another button offers accessibility and travel options, again familiar to current users, so you can for example turn off rail travel or request a journey with various degrees of step-free access. Meanwhile, if you've noticed, there are tabs at the top of the search box for those who'd rather cycle or walk than take public transport. Ready to go? Plan your journey. A little whirring picture appears while your journey is being loaded, most likely a cartoon bus rushing past a rolling urban landscape. And there are your details - choices summarised at the top, and results listed below. This particular journey takes 20 minutes via the Northern line, and four timed options are presented. It's here that one of the biggest changes on the new site becomes evident. Previously the four options would have appeared in a small block, covering about twenty square centimetres of your screen. Now you may have trouble reading them all in one go, as the presentation expands to includes a shedload of empty space. Some of that is filled if you click on "View details", but this is a simple journey so there aren't many. What's happened is that TfL have optimised their presentation for mobile users, who require minimal text, and in portrait format. If you're viewing the site on a laptop or desktop, anything with a landscape screen, most of the extra width is left unfilled. Sat at home that's a bit annoying because you have to scroll down a lot more than you've come to expect. Stood on a pavement with your smartphone in hand, however, it's ideal. The "View on a map" option looks particularly impressive if you're cycling or walking, because you can enlarge the map to

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski has undergone back surgery.