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        <title>New England Patriots</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The New England Patriots are a professional football team that has enjoyed varying degrees of success throughout its checkered history. Under owner Robert Kraft and coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots won three Super Bowls during a four-year period (2001-04). The team originated when Boston businessman William H. "Billy" Sullivan Jr. was awarded the eighth and final franchise in the upstart American Football League on Nov. 16, 1959. Originally known as the Boston Patriots, the team played home games at several venues during the 1960s, including six years at Fenway Park. The Patriots were one of 10 AFL teams that joined the NFL when the two leagues merged on Feb. 1, 1970. The following year, the team was renamed the New England Patriots and started playing home games at newly built Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The venue would be renamed twice, first as Sullivan Stadium (1983-89) in honor of the man who founded the franchise and later as Foxboro Stadium (1990-2001) after Sullivan sold the team to Victor Kiam, owner and CEO of Remington Products in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1988.                    In 1992, Kiam sold the controlling interest of the team to James Orthwein. The ownership changed hands two years later when Kraft, who strategically purchased Sullivan Stadium in November 1988 with the hopes of buying the team some day, fulfilled a lifelong dream when he became the fourth owner in Patriots history on Feb. 25, 1994. The following day fans responded to the sale by purchasing nearly 6,000 season tickets, a single-day sales record at the time. The Patriots have come a long way. At his introductory press conference as head coach in 1969, Clive Rush was shocked, literally, when he grabbed a microphone that wasn't grounded and received a jolt. With the team headed to the postseason in 1978, fans were stunned to learn that coach Chuck Fairbanks had accepted a job to be the University of Colorado coach. The team suspended Fairbanks for the final game of the regular season but reinstated him for the playoffs and the Patriots played like a distracted team in a 34-14 loss to Houston. In 1985, the Patriots won three playoff games on the road for the team's first trip to the Super Bowl. Days after getting hammered by the Bears 46-10, six Patriots players were identified as drug users. The next time the Patriots played in the Super Bowl, there was more dysfunction. A power struggle between coach Bill Parcels and Kraft resulted in Parcells quitting shortly after a 35-21 loss to the Packers. He was replaced by Pete Carroll, who lasted three seasons. The Belichick era began in 2000 and coincided with the opening of Gillette Stadium two years later. In Belichick's first eight seasons, the team won the AFC East six times and three world championships with Tom Brady as quarterback.]]></description>
        
        
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			<title><![CDATA[Ravens: Looking at five questions during OTAs]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-21 12:59:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[From contract negotiations with quarterback Joe Flacco and running back Ray Rice to a potentially season-ending Achilles injury to star linebacker Terrell Suggs to coach John Harbaugh&rsquo;s comments on the New England Patriots to mercurial safety Ed...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ray Rice might not be in the building, but some progress has been made in contract talks]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-21 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For the next three weeks, the Ravens will have three-day, organized team activities that will undoubtedly attract many of the team&rsquo;s veteran players along with the rookie class.

Ray Rice, the Ravens&rsquo; star running back who has stayed away from...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[LaQuan Williams not taking anything for granted]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-13 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ravens have had 20 un-drafted free agents working out at their team facility at a rookie mini-camp that started Friday and ends today. If anybody knows what they are going through, from the burning desire to make a strong impression to the bouts of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Recovered from surgery, Smith says that he's ready to take next step]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-12 11:52:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The reassurance that he was 100 percent healthy following an offseason operation on a double hernia didn&rsquo;t come for Torrey Smith while running a route or going up to catch a pass.

It came while the former University of Maryland standout was playing...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[What they're saying about Terrell Suggs]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/bal-ravens-what-theyre-saying-about-terrell-suggs-20120504,0,7747012.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-05-04 05:51:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As one would expect, there was no shortage of reaction to and analysis of the news of Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs&rsquo; Achilles tendon injury. Here&rsquo;s what other media outlets had to say about the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Joe Flacco gets a little love from his NFL peers]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/bal-ravens-insider-joe-flacco-nfl-top-100-20120510,0,5436996.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-05-10 08:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Joe Flacco was mocked by media and fans last month when he said that he thinks of himself as the NFL&rsquo;s best quarterback. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be very successful at my job if I didn&rsquo;t feel that way,&rdquo; the Ravens quarterback explained....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Harbaugh releases statement on Patriots comments]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-01 10:11:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ravens have just released a statement from John Harbaugh regarding comments he made during a radio interview Tuesday about the New England Patriots' championships being 'stained.' 

Following is the full statement:


&ldquo;While on the 98 Rock show...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[O'Brien continues Penn State tour in Maryland]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-01 16:20:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bill O'Brien looks right out of Football Coach Central Casting: thick neck, hulking shoulders, receding hairline and a mug that looks like it caught a few forearms back when he played linebacker and defensive end at Brown.

The new face of Penn State's...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Harbaugh: Patriots' Super Bowl titles are 'stained']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-01 10:10:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ravens head coach John Harbaugh made some interesting comments about the New England Patriots, Spygate, and the Patriots&rsquo; three Super Bowl titles during a Tuesday morning appearance on 98 Rock.

Harbaugh, on the airwaves to promote the upcoming...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ravens news, notes and opinions]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-02 04:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The two names you read here and pretty much everywhere else in the days leading up to the draft as it related to the Ravens and their original 29th overall pick were Alabama linebacker Dont&rsquo;a Hightower and Wisconsin center Peter Konz. As it turns...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Harbaugh goes off &#8212; yes, that John Harbaugh]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-01 10:20:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What in the world came over John Harbaugh this morning? Ravens fans, you might want to circle the Sept. 23 game against the New England Patriots on your calendar. Might be a few extra fireworks at M&T Bank Stadium that night. Things could definitely be...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Harbaugh says New England Patriots' Super Bowl titles are 'stained']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-01 14:30:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ravens coach John Harbaugh clarified comments he made on a local radio station Tuesday in which he said that Super Bowl championships won by the New England Patriots were "stained" and have "asterisks" because of the Spygate scandal in 2007.

Those...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New York Giants 21, New England Patriots 17]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2012-05-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
			<description>&lt;img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-4fb42775/turbine/sfl-new-york-giants-super-bowl-ring-20120516/187/16x9" alt="SUPER BOWL XLVI" width="75" height="42" &gt;</description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A surfer wades into the surf for a ceremony during a "paddle-out" in honor of NFL star Junior Seau in Oceanside, California. Seau, who played for various NFL teams including the San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots was found dead in his home on May 2nd of an apparent suicide.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2012-05-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New England Patriots Junior Seau speaks to reporters before training at the Oval Cricket Ground ahead of their NFL game against Tampa Bay Buccaneers in London October]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2012-05-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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