FOXBORO — This was not the way the Patriots were supposed to head into the playoffs. The AFC East champs played most of Sunday’s game in a fog and it finally caught up with them when Ryan Fitzpatrick connected with…

FOXBORO — Go ahead and doubt Tom Brady. But do so at your own peril. Brady missed just seven of his 33 pass attempts Saturday, threw for 271 yards, completed a touchdown to a tight end and engineered a 17-play…

FOXBORO — If this was a playoff preview, it was a beauty. In a game that had lead changes and great plays, the Patriots stopped the Bills inside the 10 yard line in the final two minutes to beat Buffalo,…

BOSTON — Bruce Cassidy is starting to see a trend that he wants to nip in the bud before it becomes a troubling longterm pattern. Cassidy’s basic challenge – and the challenge of the urgency-challenged Bruins – is this: The…

BOSTON — When news broke Wednesday night that former Boston Globe sports writer and current Calgary Flames assistant general manager Chris Snow had been diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, my heart sank. Not again. This was a case of hereditary…

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…