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Tomase Says Explanation Coming on Friday
Scott's Shots — By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch John Tomase is promising an explanation to the whole Matt Walsh episode for Friday’s paper. Shots will have more on the matter for Thursday morning and then a follow-up after Tomase’s Friday story gets posted at the Herald’s website (or whenever it is made public). From his 5:24 p.m. post on Wednesday: Readers of this space have probably been asking themselves, “Where the hell is Tomase?” over the last couple of days and it’s a fair query. Right now ...

TOMASE TO TALK ON FRIDAY
ProFootballTalk.com — With the Boston Herald apologizing for its February 2 article claiming that the Patriots taped the Rams’ walk-through practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI and with Pats owner Bob Kraft accepting the apology, the next step in this saga becomes the soul-cleansing of those involved in the creation of the erroneous story. On Friday, John Tomase of the Herald will address the situation.“ I know I screwed up on the Rams taping story and I don’t intend to hide behind today’s apology or an editor’s note,” Tomase wrote in “The Point After” blog on Wednesday.  “In Friday’s Herald I ...

Boston Herald Reporter: 'I Know I Screwed Up'
FanHouse — Filed under: Patriots, Boston, Featured Stories, The WordBoston Herald reporter John Tomase, who wrote the since-retracted February 2 article saying the Patriots taped the Rams' final practice before the 2002 Super Bowl, has been curiously silent as others have questioned his journalistic integrity. In a post on the Herald's Patriots blog, Tomase finally broke his silence today, and he vowed to say more soon: Readers of this space have probably been asking themselves, "Where the hell is Tomase?" over the ...

Tomase To Apologize
SOX & Dawgs — ... John Tomase of the Boston Herald, the author of the Spygate walk through scandal has finally issued a post on this mess.  John’s post reads in full: ...

Of Tony, Bill and Tomase: a strange day for sports journalism
Small White Ball — ... yesterday's Matt Walsh revelation that he had no such videotaped evidence of the Rams walk-through, people like myself wondered who Tomase's source was that said this tape existed. Then, the Herald came out today and retracted their story with a huge apology on their back page but honestly, it's too late. The damage is done for both sides and that ship has already sailed. But what of the writer himself? What does he have to say about it? Tonight, Tomase posted to his Boston Herald blog and said that Friday will be explanation day: Readers of this ...

Tomase Dissected as We Await Friday’s “Bond of Trust” Explanation
Scott's Shots — ... While we slowly and skeptically get past the tongue-in-cheek feel of the Boston Herald’s “Sorry, Pats” headline from Wednesday and as we wait for the Friday-promised explanation from ‘Comments-off’ writer John Tomase, let’s take a little look at some of the factors that have brought us to this peculiar spot in the history of Boston sports journalism. ...

Daily Links: Mangini Likes Appetizers (Duh)
thejetsblog.com — Credit Len Berman for trying to get Mangini into some good soundbites during an eight minute interview, he even asked him about the Brady quotes, so hey press guys, you’re not going to surprise him today! Scout.com ranks the rookies in a Power Ranking, Gholston ranks #13. Chad Henne starts the list … so … yeah. Former Jet receiver Chas Gessner just got a two year deal with the Seahawks. Tomase got some ’splaining to do!! Specter wants to make a federal case of this ...