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Congratulations to Patrick Mackley for winning Week 3 of our Football Pick'em game. Patrick picked 14 out of 16 winners and scored an 87.50% winning percentage.

New England Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones has been named AFC Defensive Player of the Week. Jone may have had his best all-around game in a Pats uniform Sunday in the win against the Minnesota Vikings.

The Sylvania 300, which serves as the second race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, is happening this Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and the amount of work it takes to get ready for this premier NASCAR race can be almost as exciting as the event itself.

Want to know what it is really like to run through the Insane Inflatable 5K course that will be at Scarborough Downs on Sept. 20?

Patriots.com has a new feature called Patriots Lifestyle that includes some great tailgating recipes just in time for the season opener this Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. Three three food items featured include: Belichick's BBQ Bites Wicked Good Taco Salad (and my favorite) BBQ Ribs Oddly enough, the Dolphins were not included in this week's tailgating selections...

The 2014 NFL season officially begins tonight when the defending Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks take on the Green Bay Packers, but for Patriots fans the real season starts on Sunday when our New England Patriots take on the Miami Dolphins in South Beach...

The Portland Sea Dogs will start their post season play tonight in Binghamton, N.Y., and lefty Brian Johnson will get the start. While many top ranked prospects moved on from Double-A during the season, the Boston Red Sox kept Johnson with the Sea Dogs and he has put up incredible stats.

Think you’re the top football expert in Portland? Sign up for our Football Pick Em contest and make your picks for every regular season pro football game this year. If you pick more games correctly than anyone else – including The Captain – you win a cool prize and a shot at $10,000...

Just before practice on Monday, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski pronounced himself ready to go for the season opener on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. One wonders what coach Bill Belichick thinks of Gronk giving a public injury report.

If you've never been to a New England Patriots training camp practice, you don't know what you are missing. Unlike regular season games, Patriots fans get to interact with their favorite players much more than they normally would. Even during a routine placekicker drills on the practice field, Patriots fans who happen to be sitting in the end zone get to not only watch them kick football through t

After a week of joint practices, your New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles are ready to play their preseason game on Friday night at Gillette Stadium and the Blimp will have all the action for you starting at 7:30 p.m. The Blimp was also at Patriots training camp on Tuesday to capture the sights and sounds...

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has a reputation for being a business visionary, the ultimate Patriots fan and the man who transformed what was once a less than stellar football team into three-time Super Bowl champions. But Kraft also has a big heart that is full of compassion for the most vulnerable members of his community...

While neither we or other members of the media were allowed to directly capture the team taking the challenge, Patriots.com was there. Just like the way they chose to be introduced as a team when they were on their way to winning three Super Bowls, the New England Patriots did the same thing when they and owner Robert Kraft took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge following Tuesday's practice... Read Mor

The New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles are getting ready to hold the first of two joint practices here at Gillette Stadium leading up to their pre-season game here in Foxborough on Friday night and The Blimp is here for day one. Patriots fans are already showing up by the thousands to watch these two teams go through on field drills together and match their respective offenses against th

On Saturday a truly amazing game of softball was played at The Ballpark in Old Orchard Beach. The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team played the Maine Army National Guard. The Wounded Warrior team won 18-14. As luck would have it, I ran into a couple of the players while I was at I...

NASCAR driver Tony Stewart struck and killed a fellow race car driver on Saturday night after the driver crashed his car and tried to confront Stewart, according to ESPN.