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SPORTS A17
Saturday 5 September 2015

RALLY
CRY
Judge Richard M. Berman en-
ters federal court in New York Serena rallies to beat Mattek-Sands in 3
on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015.
Serena Williams reacts after
Associated Press winning a point against
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Judge’s NFL during the third round of the
bashing skips U.S. Open tennis tournament,
judgment of Friday, Sept. 4, 2015, in New
York.
Brady in Associated Press
‘Deflategate’

LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge’s
ruling freeing New Eng-
land Patriots quarterback
Tom Brady to play football
erased his four-game sus-
pension but failed to ad-
dress the root question of
the “Deflategate” scan-
dal: What did Brady know
about a plot to deflate
balls before January’s AFC
championship game?
U.S. District Judge Rich-
ard M. Berman thoroughly
trashed NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell’s handling
of the NFL disciplinary pro-
cess in his Thursday ruling,
but did little to cast aside
the perception by some
that Brady knew more
than he was willing to re-
veal about the scheme the
league has blamed on Pa-
triots ball handlers.
Berman noted that Brady’s
statistics were better in the
second half of the 45-7 win
over the Indianapolis Colts,
when the balls were prop-
erly inflated. Yet conclu-
sions about Brady himself
were sparse after review-
ing the NFL’s investigative
report, Goodell’s arbitra-
tion hearing with Brady
and other evidence.

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