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Addressing reporters for the first time since opting not to pursue further appeals of his four-game suspension in the ''Deflategate'' saga, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady called it a personal decision and said he is trying to move on...

(Associated Press) -- The New England Patriots have asked a federal appeals court in New York City to rehear the ``Deflategate'' case. The team said in court papers filed Wednesday in Manhattan that it has a ``strong interest'' in sparing quarterback Tom Brady from starting the season with a four-game suspension...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is upholding the four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for using underinflated footballs during the AFC championship game. In announcing his decision today, Goodell said that Brady had told an assistant to destroy the quarterback's cell phone -- either on March sixth or shortly before that date...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says "there is no timeline" for Tom Brady's four-game "Deflategate" suspension appeal. Goodell tells the "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review" the league wants to make sure they have a fair and open process, and the decision will take as long as it takes...

Update:  Tom Brady's appeal of his four-game suspension lasted more than 10 hours Tuesday, ending in the early evening. The sight of Commissioner Roger Goodell leaving the league offices after he heard Brady and representatives from the players' union during the lengthy meeting, confirmed its conclusion...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is not recusing himself from Tom Brady's suspension appeal later this month. Goodell informed the Players Association in a letter on Tuesday, saying he will not rewrite the Collective Bargaining Agreement to alter his authority and discretion to hear any appeal...

The players' union has asked NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to recuse himself from the appeal hearing for Tom Brady in the deflated footballs case. The NFL Players Association formally made the request Tuesday, citing ``a process that has contained procedural violations of our collective bargaining agreement...

This is no longer about deflated footballs. Tom Brady signaled in his appeal of his "Deflategate" suspension that he will put NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's credibility on trial, further inflating the stakes in what started as a silly little scandal about the air pressure in footballs...

The NFL Player's Association is appealing Tom Brady's four-game "Deflategate" suspension. The New England Patriots quarterback was suspended for the first four games of the 2015 season for violating the "integrity of the game." Findings from a three-month investigation determined that it was more probable than not that some Patriots personnel purposefully deflated footballs use

The lawyer who investigated the New England Patriots says that he had found direct, not just circumstantial, evidence to show quarterback Tom Brady knew about employees deflating footballs. Ted Wells said on a conference call Tuesday that his findings would have been enough to convince a jury in a civil trial under the ``preponderance of evidence'' standard...