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Alfonzo Dennard, cornerback from Nebraska and seventh-round draft pick of the Patriots, has reportedly signed a four-year contract with the team. That would mean three of the Patriots' seven picks are in the fold even before the first OTA of the year, following defensive back Tavon Wilson and receiver Jeremy Ebert.

Dennard, of course, was the fellow who took a poke at a cop during a bar fight in Lincoln, Neb., five days before the draft, plummeting like a stone from his projected…

Seventh-round draft selection Jeremy Ebert, the wide receiver from Northwestern, became the latest of the Patriots’ seven choices to sign on the dotted line when he agreed to a contract on Thursday.

Terms were not announced.

Ebert joins second-round pick Tavon Wilson, defensive back from Illinois, as having signed their rookie contracts.

The 235th overall selection, Ebert started 30 of 52 games played at Northwestern, finishing his college career with 173 catches for…

Wes Welker has apparently signed his franchise-player tender, ending the possibility of a contentious holdout later this offseason.

The Patriots’ veteran slot receiver announced his intentions to sign the one-year offer of $9.5 million at midday today on his Twitter account, saying, “I signed my…

The Patriots took an unusual tack to making rookie players available to the media during this past weekend's orientation minicamp. Instead of letting us grab players as they were finishing practice or letting reporters into the locker room to interview them there, the team made only six players available on each of the two days for a total of 12.

This prevented access to those not brought into the media workroom, and there was one notable absence -- Nebraska cornerback Alfonzo…

The proposal for statewide football playoffs was approved by a 10-4 vote of the MIAA's Tournament Management Committee today in Franklin. The next step in the process will be consideration by the MIAA Board of Directors at its June 7 meeting. If things follow normal procedures, an affirmative vote will earmark it for implementation in 2013.

This is a very complicated proposal and a radical departure from how football is presently conducted. Here are the highlights of the…

Fenway Park public address announcer Carl Beane, 59, died of a massive heart attack while driving in Sturbridge today. An early report about the accident can be found at this link.

I've known Carl for many years. He was a radio reporter for WBZ for many years before getting the chance to take over the Fenway job in 2003, and he still did free-lance work in radio and…

Patriots' owner Robert Kraft and gaming magnate Steve Wynn have both issued statements announcing that they will suspend their plans to build a resort casino across from Gillette Stadium.

The results of Monday's town election, in which anti-casino candidates Lorraine Brue and Ginny Coppola were elected by wide margins to the Board of Selectmen, were apparently enough to convince Kraft and Wynn that there would be insurmountable obstacles to overcome if they continued the efforts to…

Here are a few notes and quotes from the particulars involved in the Matt Light retirement ceremony Monday at The Hall at Patriot Place:

Matt Light

On New England as home and its support for the Light Foundation: “This has been my…