Daniel J. Flynn

It’s not what he said. It’s where he said it.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spoke publicly for the first time since the release on the Wells Report at a raucous lecture-hall event at Salem State University in northeast Massachusetts.

The transparency standards for an NFL quarterback rising higher than for the Secretary of State surely speaks to the bread-and-circuses quality of modern America.

In an animated statement issued by the team, Patriots owner Bob Kraft accuses Ted Wells of misleading the public on an important point in his report and points out that that a majority of Colts game balls inspected at halftime registered a reading below the league’s mandated psi level by at least one referee’s gauge.

This year’s Wells Report on Deflate-gate, in contrast to last year’s Wells Report on the Dolphins bullying scandal, reads long on innuendo and short on facts. It presents conclusions at odds with the evidence.

A report by Ted Wells to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on the “deflate-gate” controversy judges it “more probable than not” that employees of the New England Patriots deliberately let air out of balls before the AFC Championship Game in January.

NFL Combine drug-test failure Randy Gregory vowed to demonstrate new-found maturity to the team that drafted him. Days after his selection by the Dallas Cowboys, the University of Nebraska pass rusher tattooed the franchise’s iconic star onto his arm.

Striking a blow against the inherent racism, sexism, and homophobia of sideline mascots, or, alternatively, signifying the fast approach of the apocalypse, the Rutgers University Student Assembly voted overwhelmingly to introduce the school’s Scarlet Knight as homosexual, female, transgender, and in various racial incarnations.

Fans slam athletes who sit with injuries. Now two fight fans sue Manny Pacquiao for performing with an injury.

The UFC took Jon Jones’s belt from him. Jon Jones may take the UFC’s best fighter from the promotion.

You can take away their flagship public university’s nickname, but you can never take away North Dakota’s sense of humor.

Floyd Mayweather may retire later this year as the only boxer to take more from the ring than he left in it. And for that we hate him.

Floyd Mayweather won a unanimous decision victory over Manny Pacquiao in the most lucrative fight in boxing history.

Roger Goodell said Jameis Winston’s name. But he did not shake his hand.

Jameis Winston wasn’t the only controversial football player to skip the 2015 NFL Draft in Chicago.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston with the first pick in the NFL Draft.