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| Some Sunday afternoon odds and ends | 03.14.10 at 1:25 pm ET |
Here are a few Patriots-related notes for a rainy Sunday afternoon:
•It’s been covered a little previously, but the NFL Player Development Department has now officially awarded the Patriots with this year’s Outstanding Overall Player Development Award. At the annual meetings last week, awards were given to the NFL Player Development departments in the areas of financial education, continuing education, career development and life skills, with the Outstanding Overall Player Development Award honoring the club that excels in programming in all four areas of player development.
In addition to their financial education, the NFL Player Development Department identified a few of the Patriots’ recent initiatives as strengths of the program, including a safe boating program that was designed to raise awareness of risks after the boating tragedy that claimed the lives of two NFL players in the Gulf of Mexico last year. The team was also credited with their creative implementation of life skills training sessions. Celtics coach Doc Rivers was a guest speaker at one of the sessions this year.
•The next time we stop by Ty Warren’s locker, we’re going to make it a point to ask him about his fishing expertise. It was called to our attention here that the defensive lineman set a Massachusetts mark this season when he landed a 61-pound, 3-ounce mahi-mahi dolphin fish at Vetch Canyon in August. (For more on his mark, check this out.)
•We know that Bill Belichick and Tony LaRussa are pals, and by the sounds of this account from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the two spent part of the day Saturday hanging out before the Cardinals-Astros game in Jupiter, Fla.



Christopher Price: Welker likes change in umpire location--says they would get in his way instead of other way around #weei #Patriots #NFL http://bit.ly/cohWhh 7 hours ago
Christopher Price: Playing the role of @OGOchoCinco this week for the #Patriots ... Darnell Jenkins #weei #NFL #Bengals http://bit.ly/97l17O 9 hours ago
Christopher Price: Direct from @Nuggetpalooza HQ, it's the latest edition of the #Patriots schedule preview. Today, the #Dolphins #weei http://bit.ly/9fAPGp 13 hours ago
Christopher Price: Bill Belichick and @OGOchoCinco find common ground on gridiron #NFL #weei #NFL http://bit.ly/borQU8 13 hours ago
Christopher Price: RT @OGOchoCinco: Awesome practice, watched alot of film on Patriots this PM,defense always n position to make a play on the ball-discipline 14 hours ago
Christopher Price: Wednesday Injury Report for #Patriots-#Bengals #weei #NFL http://bit.ly/bRihfn 15 hours ago
Christopher Price: No surprise to hear today that Belichick doesn't follow Twitter. He's not a face of 'MyFace' or 'YearBook' either #weei http://bit.ly/902pAw 18 hours ago
Christopher Price: RT @weeisports: Tom Brady discusses contract, Jets' arrogance on D&C http://bit.ly/cG2NFU 22 hours ago
Christopher Price: The Hot List: Most memorable opening acts under Belichick #weei #NFL #Patriots http://bit.ly/ayDnFu 22 hours ago
Christopher Price: For you early risers, I'll be on the #Fox25 morning show between 7:30 and 8 plugging the new book. For more, see @Patshistorybook 4:00 AM Sep 08, 2010
Christopher Price: Brady not specific on contract, but says, "I love being here. The thought of playing somewhere else is not a good feeling for me." 3:58 AM Sep 08, 2010
Christopher Price: @richmaclone 09 was a good game, but not great. Put it this way--which game would you knock off the list to make room for it? 8:56 PM Sep 07, 2010
Christopher Price: Poll: Most memorable #Patriots openers under Belichick #weei #NFL http://bit.ly/aVBgY8 8:43 PM Sep 07, 2010






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