BOSTON – What is with all the handwringing over Ilya Kovachuk? Why wouldn’t the Bruins want to see what a player with championship pedigree at a bargain basement price can do for them? There are many other teams in the…

CINCINNATI – The inevitability of Sunday was thick in the air inside Paul Brown Stadium. Even when the Bengals went up, 10-7, there was the sense there was no way the incompetent Bengals were going to make an already miserable…

CINCINNATI — The Patriots got their wake-up call just in time Sunday. Stephon Gilmore intercepted a pair of Andy Dalton passes, including a pick-6 of 64 yards, and Matthew Slater had a momentum-changing strip of a punt return as the…

FOXBORO – Forget the terrible officiating in the second half of Sunday’s game. That scapegoat is way too convenient for a Patriots team that is starting to show striking similarities to the 2015 gang that started 10-0 and lost four…

FOXBORO — Sunday’s Patriots Chiefs game had a little bit of everything. Unfortunately , it didn’t include a comeback from 23-7 hole. The day began with the Chiefs scrambling to get 35 equipment bags from Newark, New Jersey to Gillette…

BOSTON – This was the night a slow start was going to finally catch up with the Bruins. In their amazing 20-3-5 start to the season, they had never trailed by three goals at any point in any game. That…