Tom E. Curran

Here we are again at the edge of the volcano. A Patriots player we thought irreplaceable is nearing replacement.

The key to the rest of the Patriots season isn't Tom Brady's arm. It's Sony Michel's legs.

FOXBORO – Here's a leftover from last week I'm dredging up because it's really instructive in giving insight to something we all flap our arms

Five takeaways from Julian Edelman's contract extension . . . Growing up in Redwood City, California, the then-pocket-sized Edelman would

Less than a month after Bill Parcells selected Willie McGinest with the fourth overall pick in the 1994 draft, McGinest agreed to a four-year, 6 million contract with the Patriots.

This transcript from the Brady appeal gives us a nice, unfiltered look at how the men running a $10 billion per year business operate.

Down at ground level, where you can only see what's directly in front of you, the concern for the New England Patriots this week is getting from 10-2 to 11-2 against Kansas City.

FOXBORO -- It's coming up on seven years since Jeff Ebner was killed. November 14, 2008. That's the day Jeff died in a Miami, Ohio, hospital.

Mike Kensil, the NFL suit that turned a suspicion about deflated footballs into a 16-month, multi-million dollar crisis that's enveloped the league, has been reassigned.

(Editor's Note: Tom E. Curran originally filed this column in May, 2016.) Don Shula landed in the hospital this week and, fortunately, the 86-year-old former Dolphins coach was treated and released