Ryan L. Fox

​It was the talk of the town going into this game. Nearly 3 years after he was traded away to the San Francisco 49ers, former Patriots QB Jimmy Garoppolo was making his return to Foxborough to play against the team that drafted him back in 2014.
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Looking to bounce back after a horrendous 18-12 loss to the Broncos the previous week, the Patriots were eager to ruin the ‘homecoming’ and, at the same time, try to avoid going 2-4 for the first time since 2000.

From start to finish, it was an absolute ass-whooping of which Pats nation had not seen before. But instead of getting a much deserved chuckle and laugh at Jimmy G’s expense, it was quite the opposite.

Mark Colley
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The 2020 campaign is the worst-case scenario for President Donald Trump and his campaign. An unprecedented pandemic, a global recession and a fairly evasive opponent. Could anything go worse?

In the last three weeks, it has. Trump’s performance on the debate stage in Cleveland was largely panned, giving Biden a bump in a race that has been largely stagnant since Bernie Sanders withdrew from the Democratic primary in April. Polling also showed a dip for Trump after his positive COVID-19 test.

The polls have been dismal for the president. According to FiveThirtyEight’s national polling average, Biden leads Trump by 10.4 percent. And the average, which is typically slow in responding to polls dramatically above or below what it thinks is the mean, has seen a number of Biden +14 polls in recent days. (It has also seen many Biden +6 and +7 polls.)

But the polls were wrong in 2016. Pollsters tended to oversample college-educated voters, while Trump’s largest support group — white, non-college-educated voters — were under sampled.

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Ryan L. Fox

​It seemed like an eternity since the New England Patriots last played football. Since their Week 4 loss on Monday Night Football to the Kansas City Chiefs, the Patriots have been battling a COVID-19 outbreak that forced them to reschedule their Week 5 match-up with the Denver Broncos on October 11 to following week on October 18.
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It was a sloppy game to say the least as there was clearly rust on each team’s offense. That only meant that the game would become a defensive chess battle with each side making a key play to help put their team in position to win. The game itself went down to the wire but in the end, only one teams was going to prevail. 

Ryan L. Fox

Sometimes finding a good burger in autumn can be a hassle. For those craving for such before the inevitable cold fate known as winter, Wendy’s recently has come out with a whole new burger. Dubbed the Pretzel Bacon Pub burger, Wendy’s is combining a sizzling beef patty with beer cheese (yeah, you read that correctly), bacon, fried onion, and pickles and sticking the whole thing between two pretzel buns.  

After seeing it being displayed on billboards and in commercials, yours truly had to try it out for myself.