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"The regular season starts tomorrow morning and I can't wait to fully commit my energy and emotion to focus on the challenges of the 2015 NFL season," Brady said in the statement. "I want to thank my family, my friends, all of the fans, past and current players and my teammates for the support they have given me throughout this challenging experience. I also want to thank Judge Berman and his staff for their efforts to resolve this matter over the past five weeks. I am very grateful. My thanks also to the union's legal team who has fought so...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Steelers star Ben Roethlisberger, the youngest quarterback to lead a team to the Super Bowl championship, broke his jaw and nose in a motorcycle crash Monday in which he was not wearing a helmet. Four doctors operated on Roethlisberger for seven hours to treat multiple facial fractures and "all of the fractures were successfully repaired," Dr. Harry W. Sell, chairman of the surgery department at Mercy Hospital, told reporters late Monday night. Photo Gallery...Roethlisberger's accident Also... Bradshaw: 'I pray he's going to be OK' Athletes and motorcycle accidents Dr. Daniel Pituch, who led the team, said Roethlisberger...

MCDONALD'S TEAMS UP WITH NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS ON $21 MILLION DEAL McDonald's Named Official Quick Service Restaurant at CMGI Field -- First McDonald's Ever Inside a National Football League Stadium BOSTON, May 8, 2002 - McDonald's Corporation and the MAC Inc. Co-op, (McDonald's restaurant Owner/Operators of eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire), and the New England Patriots announce a 10-year, $21 million agreement that will make McDonald's the official quick service restaurant (QSR) at CMGI Field. The agreement is a landmark one for McDonald's as these will be the first McDonald's restaurants inside the “bowl” of a National Football...