A report released by the NFL on Wednesday found that the New England Patriots had likely deflated game balls for the AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts on Jan. 18. Investigators not only zeroed in on two employees suspected of purposefully deflating footballs below regulation levels—John Jastremski, a team equipment assistant, and locker room attendant Jim McNally—but that star quarterback Tom Brady was probably “at least generally aware.”
The 243-page report draws from an array of sources, including interviews and surveillance camera footage, but the text messages exchanged between Jastremski and McNally provide a colorful (and at times expletive-filled) lens into what has become known as Deflategate. Read More...
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. In The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease, journalist Daisy Hernández revisits the disease that took her aunt’s life, and in doing so, delivers an indictment of racism and poverty in the U. Read More...
Diana, Princess of Wales, was a commodity — and she had a pretty shrewd idea of her own value. “You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well,” she said in a famous confessional BBC TV interview in 1995. “And people make a lot of money out of you.” They still do. When she was alive, everyone wanted a piece of Diana. Photographers chased after her smile, newspapers hung on her words, her fans bought anything that would get them that little bit closer to the fairy tale. Read More...
