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NCAA says it is currently investigating 20 schools for academic fraud

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In fact, representatives from the <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://chronicle.com/article/NCAA-Says-It-s-Investigating/151315/?key=TGJ1dFFsMyASMCljNTYTYzlQbH1tMB5yMnQZYix3bltVFQ==" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421871786271_1625" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">NCAA’s enforcement department told <em>The Chronicle </em></a>that is currently investigating academic misconduct in athletic programs at 20 schools – 18 from Division I, one from Division II and one from Division III.</div>
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From <em>The Chronicle</em>:</div>
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The cases are at various stages, from preliminary inquiry to awaiting a hearing with the Division I Committee on Infractions, and they involve a variety of missteps, including allegations that players received impermissible assistance from professors, academic advisers, or people outside of an athletic department.</blockquote>
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Last year, the NCAA named Katherine Sulentic, a former academic adviser at Colorado, the chair of a new academic integrity group in its enforcement department. Now, the NCAA’s vice president for enforcement, Jonathan Duncan, says that unit will be beefed up while the NCAA’s investigators receive additional training on “what constitutes academic fraud and how to handle potential academic violations.”</div>
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“The timing is right to dedicate more resources to this,” Sulentic said. “Everyone’s antenna is up about academic fraud on a college campus in general.”</div>
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Academic misconduct is on the rise in college sports and the NCAA says many of the recent cases follow a fairly similar pattern.</div>
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Mr. Duncan and Ms. Sulentic attributed the increase in alleged academic violations to a variety of factors, including stricter NCAA academic standards and a rise in cheating among college students in general. They said that many of their current cases involved people who had relationships with an athletic department or a particular sports program, but who were not necessarily employed by the department. Those include professors, academic advisers who work outside of athletics, and people in the registrar’s office.</blockquote>
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Coaches get involved sometimes, too.</div>
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In some cases, head coaches have urged members of their staff—secretaries, athletic trainers, people in the weight room—to "get this young man or woman eligible," Ms. Sulentic said.<br />
"It’s not necessarily a directive about what to do—‘I need you to write this kid’s paper,’" she said. But she said coaches were making "proclamations" to a broad network of people, encouraging them to cheat on behalf of current players or recruits.</blockquote>
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Unsurprisingly, Sulentic says others like agents and financial planners can also attempt to get involved with an athlete.</div>
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“They might say, ‘I exchange for you working with me in the future, I’m going to get you eligible to play Division I ball,’” Sulentic said. “What consistently surprises me is the definition of the word ‘help.’”</div>
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While none of these things seem like very new issues, at least the NCAA is bolstering its resources and focus on academic fraud. And if we know anything about the NCAA, the results of these investigations won’t come to light for quite a while.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">source: <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/ncaa-says-it-is-currently-investigating-20-schools-for-academic-fraud-174453905.html" target="_blank">Yahoo sports</a></span></div>

NCAA says it is currently investigating 20 schools for academic fraud

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How serious is deflate-gate? Yahoo Sports does its own ball-deflating test

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When news first surfaced that the <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nwe/" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">New England Patriots</a> might have played Sunday night's AFC title game with slightly deflated footballs, reaction ran from outrage to titillation, with accusations of cheating and middle-school jokes vying for social media supremacy. Here at Yahoo Sports, we're not above a few deflated-ball jokes, but we wanted to dig deeper into deflate-gate. So we did a little hands-on experiment: just how important is air pressure to a football?</div>
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Join us as we investigate the most enduring mystery of this week.</div>
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You know the background: The Patriots allegedly deflated 11 footballs by 2 pounds per square inch (psi) each. NFL regulations state that balls should be inflated to a pressure of 12.5 to 13.5 psi. Reducing that pressure, logically, would make the ball both easier to grip and throw and tougher to kick and punt.</div>
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With that in mind, we sought to answer several questions:</div>
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• Is there a difference in feel between regulation psi and regulation-minus-2 pounds?<br />
• Is there a grip and/or kick advantage?<br />
• Is there a visual or weight difference between two pressure levels?<br />
• How hard would such a scheme be to pull off?<br />
• Can I get Yahoo to buy me a football and let me throw it around on company time?</div>
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The answer to the last was an emphatic <em>yes</em>. Since the footballs in my garage are stained with the dirt and heartbreak of Turkey Bowls past, I hit the local sporting goods emporium and bought a new, regulation-sized football and pump. (I kept waiting for the cashier to make ANY kind of Patriots joke, but he didn't take the bait. Come on, man, my story needs quirky details!)</div>
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I then drove to a local park to do a little private football minicamp. Now, bear in mind that I am not an NFL quarterback (even though I am next in line to be selected to the Pro Bowl if Andy Dalton goes down). I'm also not an NFL kicker. But, like you, I've played enough football and tossed around enough pigskins to have a vague idea of what feels right and what doesn't. So let's begin right there, shall we?</div>
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<strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421870836776_1915">Conditions of the Experiment</strong></div>
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This experiment was conducted in 50-degree sunshine in suburban Atlanta, so we're already a pretty far distance from Foxborough in the freezing rain. I also didn't inflate the ball indoors in 70 degrees and play with it outside in 45-degree precipitation, or whatever creative preemptive explanations Patriots defenders are devising. I also used an off-the-shelf Wilson Premier model, not the ultra-high-end Duke model used in games. Remember, this is not an exact science. We roll with what we've got.</div>
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<strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421870836776_1921">Feel: Not as different as you'd think</strong></div>
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You have no idea what a properly inflated football feels like. I guarantee it. If you grab a football, squeeze it, and think, <em>hey, that could use a little air</em>, chances are it's less than half its regulation pressure level. If you squeeze it and say, <em>that's good</em>, it's probably still three to four psi low. You cannot squeeze a football inflated to regulation pressure to any more than the tiniest degree, and some of that depends on the sponginess of the football's outer layer.</div>
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Ah, but what about a deflated football? I started at 13 psi, midpoint of the NFL's legal pressure window, and deflated the ball to 11 psi. Here's the thing: football squeezeability (scientific term) doesn't descend in a straight line as psi drops. The difference between 13 psi and 11 psi is not nearly as sharp as, say, the difference between 7 psi (mushy but still fine for a backyard game) and 5 psi (lumpy in your hand).</div>
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Again, I'm not an NFL quarterback, and I'm certain they can tell the degree of difference between psi with a far greater degree of certainty than I can. But, and this is key, once you get into double-digit psi, you really have to squeeze the ball hard to tell the difference. In other words, referees, particularly in a Gillette Stadium downpour, would have to be actively squeezing the balls, not just picking them up and tossing them to the sideline, to sense a pressure differential.</div>
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<em>Verdict:</em> There's a definite change in feel, but it's not nearly as sharp as you'd expect. And in game conditions ... I can't believe I'm saying this, but given the Biblical downpour and the presumption of previous checking, I'm letting the refs off the hook for not noticing the pressure differential once the game had already begun. I mean, look at this dude:</div>
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That's Carl Paganelli, umpire during the AFC Championship game, and he looks absolutely miserable, dealing with rain and cold and loud Boston fans all at once. If he assumes that someone on his crew properly checked the balls, the last thing he's going to be worried about is a minute pressure differential. Again, though: the key there is that he's assuming someone on his crew has already checked the balls. We'll get to that part later.</div>
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<strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421870836776_1970">Weight: Negligible</strong></div>
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A football weighs 14.5 ounces, discounting air. At 13 psi, the air inside the ball<a data-rapid_p="14" href="http://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/oldenburgj/ENGR1A/NFLFootballWtCalc.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421870836776_1977" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;"> weighs about one-third of an ounce</a>, or about the weight of two sheets of paper. At 11 psi, the air weighs about one-fourth of an ounce.</div>
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<em>Verdict:</em> If you can tell the difference between one-third and one-fourth of an ounce of air inside a one-pound football, you are lyFing.</div>
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<strong>Appearance: Also negligible</strong></div>
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It's a football. It looks exactly the same at 13 or 11 psi. Take two pounds out of a regulation-inflated ball and it doesn't suddenly become a Salvador Dali-esque melting chunk of leather.</div>
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<em>Verdict:</em> Either way, it's a football, not this:</div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DeflateGate?src=hash">#DeflateGate</a> If Bill Belichick takes up painting. <a href="http://t.co/nRMiWDWYaZ">http://t.co/nRMiWDWYaZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/indystar">@indystar</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cheatriots?src=hash">#Cheatriots</a> <a href="http://t.co/ckhZUC0dCH">pic.twitter.com/ckhZUC0dCH</a><br />
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<strong style="line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">Performance: Definitely improved by deflation</strong></div>
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Now, this is tricky, because as noted above, I'm not an NFL quarterback, and presumably neither are you. (If you are, <a data-rapid_p="15" href="mailto:jay.busbee@yahoo.com" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">get in touch</a> and tell me how wrong I am.) I noticed a slight grip improvement on the deflated ball, and my throwing distance was ... well, let's just say I won't be turning heads at the combine, but there's a measurable distance improvement when you're able to get slightly more grip on the ball. But kicking a properly inflated ball is definitely a bit harder than the slightly deflated one, though that could be confirmation bias on my part.</div>
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<em>Verdict:</em> If a sportswriter decades past his athletic prime can notice a difference in performance, an elite NFL athlete certainly can.</div>
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<strong>Scheme: Not exactly a diamond heist</strong></div>
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So how hard is it to pull two psi out of a ball? Even easier than you'd expect. Pop a needle into the ball and you can drop two psi faster than you can say "two psi." Granted, there are some chain-of-custody issues here; someone looking to do this would have to gain access to the balls, which are supposed to be under the referees' control prior to the game.</div>
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<em>Verdict:</em> If someone were to do a Mission: Impossible-style break-in of the football vault, they could deflate all 12 footballs inside of 30 seconds ... or miss one, if they're sloppy.</div>
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So what have we learned? This: deflating footballs is a perfect cut-the-corners gambit. It's an advantage that's simple to execute, not easily detectable, but with measurably positive results. Also, throwing around footballs on company time is pretty sweet. Enjoy Deflate-gate, everyone!</div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/nfl">@nfl</a> So we get to play the game again or nah? 👀<br />
— Darius Butler (@DariusJButler) <a href="https://twitter.com/DariusJButler/status/557753269557403648">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Pat McAfee doesn't think a rematch is necessary... although he might not be in the clearest mindset:<br />
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If New England was to be DQ'd.. We'd be their replacements right??... I should probably lay off these strawberry margs<br />
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Panthers kicker Graham Gano had jokes! <br />
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Looks like someone's gonna be in trouble for not deflating that 12th ball... 😱😂

“<a href="https://twitter.com/jjones9">@jjones9</a>: bruh 11 out of 12”<br />
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And also shared some experience about dealing with referees and ball pressure:<br />
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(1/4)When checking the game balls, the refs check the psi indoors. This is frustrating bc the ball loses some pressure in cold weather...<br />
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(2/4)... During our home playoff game this year I asked the official if he could check the psi outside again bc the ball felt flat and he...<br />
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(3/4)...said he could not. I guess you can't blame the official for that. Rules are rules. Maybe the league will make some changes this...<br />
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(4/4)...offseason. Sucks kicking a flat ball tho. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BombSquadNonetheless?src=hash">#BombSquadNonetheless</a> 😎<br />
— Graham Gano (@GrahamGano) <a href="https://twitter.com/GrahamGano/status/557762624260419585">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote>
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11 of 12 balls under-inflated can anyone spell cheating!!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Just?src=hash">#Just</a> Saying<br />
— Jerry Rice (@JerryRice) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryRice/status/557756584563339265">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote>
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This is our favorite joke about this. <br />
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Now I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, and I'll tell you all about how I became the prince of ball air. <a href="http://t.co/30q9AQ9m69">pic.twitter.com/30q9AQ9m69</a><br />
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source: <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/1/21/7864293/colts-nfl-react-to-patriots-deflategate-news" target="_blank">SB Nation</a></span>

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How did Colts know Patriots' balls weren't inflated? And Gronk takes blame

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When Colts linebacker D'Qwell Jackson picked off Brady deep in Colts territory during Sunday's AFC championship game, that's <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/deflate-gate--report--patriots-being-investigated-for-deflated-footballs-062844133.html" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">when deflate-gate started.</a></div>
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According to <a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/super-bowl/nfl-opens-patriots-deflated-football-probe-after-afc-championship-win-1.9821346" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">New York Newsday </a>and <a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://www.wcvb.com/sports/nfl-investigating-after-colts-player-thought-ball-was-under-inflated/30798932" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">WCVB in Boston</a>, Jackson believed the ball wasn't inflated as much as usual. He told a Colts equipment manager the ball felt under-inflated and gave it to him. The equipment man told Colts coach Chuck Pagano on the sideline. That message was relayed to Colts general manager Ryan Grigson in the press box, who told NFL director of football operations Mike Kensil, Newsday and WCVB said. Kensil told the on-field officials at halftime about the balls. Someone told Bob Kravitz of WTHR in Indianapolis, because he broke the story of the Patriots possibly deflating their game footballs – which would help them throw and catch it better in the rain –and now the NFL is looking into it.</div>
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And that's the recipe for <a data-rapid_p="14" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/deflating-feeling--report-puts-patriots-on-defensive-over-footballs--culture-since-spygate-scandal-080638511.html" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">the first crazy story</a> leading up to the Super Bowl between the Patriots and the <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="15" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea/" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Seattle Seahawks</a>.</div>
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“Did not notice, and that’s something for the league to handle," Pagano said, according to Newsday. "It’s not my place to comment on it.”</blockquote>
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The game had an odd delay right after the second-half kickoff. The officials threw a ball that had been spotted back to the sideline and replaced it with another ball. CBS' Mike Carey, a former official, speculated during the broadcast that the officials had mistakenly spotted the ball used for kickoffs only, but based on the timeline we now have of how deflate-gate came to light, there was likely more to it than that.</div>
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The Patriots have mostly shrugged it off. Coach Bill Belichick said the team will cooperate with the NFL. Tom Brady <a data-rapid_p="16" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/patriots-quarterback-tom-brady-dubs-deflate-gate-accusations--ridiculous-135815596.html" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">called it all ridiculous</a>. And tight end <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="17" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/24017/" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Rob Gronkowski</a>, as only Gronk can, hilariously said he was to blame:<br />

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Whoops lol <a href="http://t.co/uLxN7A5cpq">pic.twitter.com/uLxN7A5cpq</a><br />
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobGronkowski/status/557394981930168320">January 20, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<span style="line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">New </span><a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-Team" data-rapid_p="20" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/teams/england" style="color: #1b70e0; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; text-decoration: none;">England</a><span style="line-height: 24.0000019073486px;"> could end up being fined, and </span><a data-rapid_p="21" href="https://twitter.com/bkravitz/status/557055227271315456" style="color: #1b70e0; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; text-decoration: none;">Kravitz said</a><span style="line-height: 24.0000019073486px;"> a source told him the league might even strip the Patriots of draft picks if it's found they deflated footballs after the officials inspected them before the game. Brady's lone interception against the Colts might end up being a lot worse for the Patriots than we could have imagined at the time.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3552">Another Super Bowl featuring the Patriots, another sensational scandal surrounding them.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3554">If you hadn't heard by now, the NFL is allegedly investigating whether the footballs were properly inflated during New England's 45-7 victory against the Colts, as first <a data-rapid_p="26" href="https://twitter.com/bkravitz" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3563" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3562">reported by Indianapolis-based WTHR-TV columnist Bob Kravitz</span></a> and since <a data-rapid_p="27" href="https://twitter.com/BobGlauber" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">confirmed by New York Newsday's Bob Glauber</a>. You can read all about the fallout from Yahoo's Dan Wetzel <a data-rapid_p="28" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/deflating-feeling--report-puts-patriots-on-defensive-over-footballs--culture-since-spygate-scandal-080638511.html" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">here</a> and Shutdown Corner's own Eric Edholm <a data-rapid_p="29" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/deflate-gate--report--patriots-being-investigated-for-deflated-footballs-062844133.html" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</span></div>
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<a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="30" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5228/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3601" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Tom Brady</a> has heard the report, too, and he's laughing all the way to Arizona. Making <a data-rapid_p="31" href="http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports/newengland/football/patriots/2015/01/19/tom-brady-on-report-of-patriots-tampering-with-game-balls-ridiculous/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3572" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">his weekly Monday morning appearance on Boston-based WEEI's Dennis and Callahan Morning Show</a>, the Patriots quarterback called the accusations "ridiculous." Now in his sixth title game, Brady is no stranger to controversy this time of year, having dealt with the Spygate scandal leading up to Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Ariz.</div>
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Tom Brady on the accusations of the Patriots deflating balls: "(laughter) I think I have heard it all at this point. That's ridiculous."<br />
— Dennis and Callahan (@DandCShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/DandCShow/status/557149888933560320">January 19, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3603">While a deflated football might help explain how Brady completed two-thirds of his passes for 226 yards and a trio of touchdowns in a driving rain while Colts QB Andrew Luck finished 12-of-33 for half as many yards and a pair of picks, so too could the two-time NFL MVP's 15 years of experience in the Northeast.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3590">There was an awkward moment to start the third quarter involving a ball being switched just prior to the Patriots' first play, although retired ref Mike Carey — serving as an analyst for CBS — suggested officials were customarily swapping one used for the kickoff with another designated for game action. On the ensuing three possessions, New England scored 21 points in 19 plays over the next 12:40.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421693799055_3594">A potentially under-inflated ball also does not offer an explanation for New England's 177 yards and three scores on the ground, and — as Wetzel notes — it would require intricate orchestration and over-inflated cajones of their own for any team to mess with game-used footballs in plain sight following the officiating crew's pregame approval. That much, everybody should know by know, the Patriots have in spades.</span></div>

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