Tomase’s explanation

SOX & Dawgs found this 5/16/2008 on www.bostonherald.com [flag]

L ate in the 2006 season, I was having a casual conversation about the Patriots [ team stats ] when someone I trust threw out the following tidbit. I heard the Patriots filmed the Rams final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI, he said. It was just a rumor, and certainly not actionable intelligence, as they say. He had heard it from a friend of a friend. I filed it away, and then forgot about ... [link]

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The Tomase Statement
Published 5/16/2008 by Steve at SOX & Dawgs
... Here is the statement by the Boston Herald’s John Tomase on CameraGate. It runs in it’s entirety here at Sox & Dawgs after the jump. ...

Shanoff's Wake-Up Call: Week's Big Losers
Published 5/16/2008 at The Sporting Blog
Today's Calls: Spurs vs. Hornets, Celtics and Lakers vs. the Road, Brandon Webb vs. History, Cole Hamels vs. Aaron Laffey, Lance Berkman vs. Ryan Braun, Matt Walsh vs. John Tomase, Big Brown vs. the Field, Charles Barkley vs. Steve Wynn and More! The Opening Pitch: John Tomase's public self-flagellation today in the Boston Herald over the Pats Super-scandal (see below) is a nice set-up for a run-down of the week's biggest Losers and Winners: Biggest Losers: 5. John Tomase Tabloid mope on mea culpa tour. 4. Hank Steinbrenner Hey: Why not buy the Rays? 3. OJ Mayo Victim of ...

John Tomase Explains His Spygate Story
Published 5/16/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... But Tomase, to his immense credit, came out with what has to be the longest 'I screwed up' pieces in journalism history. Here's one tiny excerpt: ...

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C’Mon Tomase It’s Time To Fess Up

SteveM posted 5/13/2008 from soxanddawgs.com

Now that Matt Walsh has met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and has confirmed that there is no tape of the St. Louis Rams Super Bowl XXXVI walk through you have to wonder what is now going to happen in regards to the Boston Herald and John Tomase who wrote the article about the existence of the tape.

Herald Apologizes; Brady Bashes ESPN and Jets; Everyone Else Bashes the Herald’s John Tomase by Scott’s Shots

FanHouse found this 5/14/2008 on shots.bostonsportsmedia.com

Boston Sports Media Watch The Boston Herald has “apologized” for writer John Tomase’s Super Bowl Eve bombshell that a tape of a 2002 St. Louis Rams pre-Super Bowl walkthrough existed. Without naming Tomase directly, the paper, at its website ...

TOMASE EXPLAINS HIS ERROR

FanHouse found this 5/16/2008 on www.profootballtalk.com

Reporter John Tomase of the Boston Herald has posted a lengthy, detailed explanation of the events leading to that fateful February 2 story claiming that the Patriots had taped the Rams’ walk-through practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI. The ...

And finally, the long-awaited John Tomase apology

The Sporting Blog found this 5/16/2008 on sports.yahoo.com

If you aren't familiar with the name John Tomase, I sort of envy you. That would mean that you aren't terribly caught up in all this Spygate business, at least not caught up enough to know the name of the unfortunate soul at the Boston Herald who ...

On Patriots Spygate Story, Does Boston Herald's John Tomase Deserve a Break?

Scott's Shots found this 5/19/2008 on sports.aol.com

Over the last week I've heard from several people who think Boston Herald reporter John Tomase should have been fired -- not just forced to apologize -- for his February 2 story suggesting the New England Patriots had taped the St. Louis' Rams' ...

John Tomase Spared Any More Online Ridicule For Now [Media]

Posted 5/19/2008 on Deadspin

After last Friday's awkwardly (if not sincere) apologizing to readers of the Boston Herald , Patriot fans, Patriot front office, Bill Belichick, Pat Patriot and anyone else who's ever been remotely affiliated with the team, Rams walkthrough bumbler John Tomase did receive a little bit of grace from the editors of his blog, The Point After : they turned commenting privileges off. After last ...

Spygate Reporter John Tomase Separated At Birth

Posted 5/17/2008 on josh q. public

I know I watch far too much TV. I know it’s the coward’s way out to blame my wife for this one. But I’ll be damned if Boston Herald reporter John Tomase , who wrote the explosive and since-retracted report that the Patriots taped the Rams’ final walk-through practice before the 2002 Super Bowl , isn’t a dead ringer for Joshua “Skippy” Gad , ...

Sorry, My Bad….

Posted 5/16/2008 on NFL GridIron Gab

The Boston Herald has published its retraction of the story about the supposed 2002 Super Bowl walkthrough tape. According to this unsupported story, the New England Patriots taped the St. Louis Rams during their final walkthrough the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. John Tomase, the writer of the story, regrets writing it and will for a very long time. Tomase wrote this Friday; “First ...

Tomase Offers Explanation; Satisfied?

Posted 5/16/2008 on Sports of Boston

Boston Herald Patriots beat writer John Tomase published an account of what led to his writing of The Story in which he reported that the Patriots taped the St. Louis Rams’ walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI. The story was published the day before the Super Bowl and has been proven false when Matt Walsh divulged that he nor anyone else in the Patriots video staff had done so. Tomase ...

Pats' Beat Writer Attempts To Keep Fans From Yelling At Him For The Rest Of His Life [Media]

Posted 5/16/2008 on Deadspin

Boston Herald Patriots beat writer John Tomase promised an apology — and an explanation — after it was revealed that his February 2 story about the Pats taping the Rams' walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI wasn't true. (The tape failed to materialize and never existed.) Boy, did he ever come through . In what has to be one of the lengthiest mea culpas in journalism history, ...

Tomase Fesses Up, Massarotti Covers Up

Posted 5/16/2008 on thejetsblog.com

John Tomase gives his mea culpa today on how everything went wrong for him on his story right before the SuperBowl about the Patriots taping the Rams’ walkthrough. For the past few days, Tomase has been facing a lot of heat in New England, and a columnist for his paper the Herald, Tony Massarotti took some of the pressure off by writing a column blasting Patriots fans. Now I ...

Boston Herald's John Tomase Offers an Explanation That Doesn't Explain Much

Posted 5/16/2008 on FanHouse

Boston Herald reporter John Tomase, who wrote the explosive and since-retracted report that the Patriots taped the Rams' final walk-through practice before the 2002 Super Bowl, has written an explanation of how he got the story wrong . Unfortunately, the explanation doesn't really explain much of anything. It's really more a timeline of his work on the story, and there are still key details ...

The Herald’s John Tomase Responds

Posted 5/16/2008 on Sports Media Journal

Another chapter in the erroneous report that the Patriots videotaped the Rams walkthrough at Super Bowl XXXVI came about today from the Boston Herald beat writer who penned the story, John Tomase. In my post earlier this week I questioned the reality that some reporters rush to judgement on stories in this 24/7 news cycle we [...]

Herald stands by reporter John Tomase

Posted 5/15/2008 on Projo Pats Blog

A day after its front-page apology to the Patriots made national news, the Boston Herald today is running an editor's note defending John Tomase, the reporter whose story about the Rams Super Bowl walkthrough eventually led to the apology, and reported that Tomase himself will write about the controversy tomorrow. "We thought our story was solid. It wasn't. And we owned up to it," said the ...

Boston Herald Editor Stands by John Tomase, Reporter Who Screwed Up Spygate Story

Posted 5/15/2008 on FanHouse

A day after the Boston Herald apologized for its February 2 article saying the New England Patriots taped the St. Louis Rams' final practice before the 2002 Super Bowl, the paper's editor is both reiterating the apology and standing by the reporter who wrote the story. In an editor's note in today's paper , Kevin R. Convey says he won't throw reporter John Tomase under the bus: ...

Boston Herald Reporter: 'I Know I Screwed Up'

Posted 5/15/2008 on FanHouse

Boston 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 ...

TOMASE TO TALK ON FRIDAY

Posted 5/14/2008 on 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 [...]

Pats Release Statement, Herald Apologizes

Posted 5/14/2008 on Sports of Boston

The Boston Herald has officially apologized for its errant report by John Tomase that the Patriots taped the Rams’ walkthrough prior to their first Super Bowl victory. On Feb. 2, 2008, the Boston Herald reported that a member of the New England Patriots’ video staff taped the St. Louis Rams’ walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. While the Boston Herald based its Feb. 2, ...

Herald reporter gives his side on Spygate error

Published 5/16/2008 on FOXSports.com News for NFL

The Boston Herald sports writer who reported the New England Patriots taped a pre-Super Bowl walkthrough by the St. Louis Rams in 2002 says he will regret the erroneous story for the rest of his life. John Tomase explained in Friday's newspaper what ...