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And even though that initial reduction still has to be considered a huge win for Hardy and the Dallas Cowboys, the fact remains that both Goodell and the arbitrator magically pulled a random number out of the air to use when it came time to punish the never officially found...

Both sides have asked for a ruling by September 4, six days before New England’s opener, but Berman would not commit to that date, calling it a “quick turnaround”, via ESPN. Berman ordered both Goodell and Brady to be present on August 31st in New York if a...

He ordered Brady and Goodell, neither of whom was in court on Wednesday, to appear at that next hearing.

“We had [settlement] discussions prior to this”, Goodell told reporters.

Tom Brady, New England Patriots quarterback, and commissioner Roger Goodell both spoke privately with the judge in court.

The Deflategate controversy started when the New England Patriots were accused of using 11 underinflated footballs to gain a competitive advantage in the Patriots’ AFC championship victory over the Indianapolis Colts on January 18.

The NFL has shown no public signs that it would be open to such a deal.

The federal court hearing over Tom Brady’s four-game suspension may go on today without him. If there is no deal, the Manhattan judge has said he hopes to rule by September 4, six days before the Patriots host the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL’s season-opening game.

Berman also suggested that the league’s finding that Brady was generally aware that game balls were being deflated was too vague, noting that any reference to the January 18 game against the Colts was “conspicuously absent” in a report on an NFL investigation...

“I’m getting bad criticism that I made him look like Lurch”, Rosenberg told The New York Times on Wednesday. “Now, this Tom Brady thing, I did this whole wide shot with a million people in it. And everybody’s focusing on that one little fraction of...

Following separate, private sessions with Brady, Goodell and their lawyers Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman said in court that the positions of both sides have strengths and weaknesses and it would make sense to resolve the fight with a settlement.

But after two fourth-down failures in Patriots’ territory McCarthy waved in Mason Crosby for a field goal after a third sortie died at the New England 7.

First, Judge Berman could order NFL general counsel Jeffrey Pash to testify at the appeal hearing, with the NFLPA entitled to obtain all communications between Pash and “independent” investigator Ted Wells firm, despite Goodell’s prior finding that the...

Berman then met individually with each side for more settlement discussions in private.

ESPN.com reported Brady and league Commissioner Roger Goodell will be in attendance for the August 12 hearing in Manhattan.