Bill Parcells, Robert Kraft squash 30-year feud as legendary coach chosen for Patriots Hall of Fame
NY Post
Patriots owner Robert Kraft and former head coach Bill Parcells have seemingly made amends decades after the coach’s exit to the AFC East rival Jets in 1997.
On Tuesday, Kraft announced at the NFL owners meetings that Parcells will be inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame as a contributor this year and explained the timing was right for him to be honored with a red jacket in Foxborough.
Parcells was the head coach of the Patriots for four seasons (1993-96) and led them to two playoff berths and a Super Bowl appearance — after inheriting a team that had finished 14-50 in the previous four years.
Parcells had been a finalist five times for the honor in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2020 and 2023.
“He had been a finalist for five years, and while both of us are alive … I thought it would be great given what he’s done for the team,” Kraft, who turns 84 in June, told The Boston Globe.
Parcells, who was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012, will turn 84 in August.
Michael Pittman Jr. has a gut feeling.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Toumani Camara had career highs of nine 3-pointers and 35 points to help Portland beat the Brooklyn Nets 134-99 on Monday night, the Trail Blazers’ largest margin of victory this season.
The Rangers hit the mark with their on-ice ceremony honoring Mika Zibanejad ahead of his 1,000th NHL game Monday night.
PORT ST. LUCIE — For now, Craig Kimbrel is choosing Mets purgatory.
‘Freak of nature: Zion Williamson’s resurgence could pose a Knicks problem versus motivated Pelicans
Zion Williamson is slimmer and healthier for his trip to MSG.
Don’t blame Mikal Bridges for his paltry stats. Blame the role.
Almost a year to the day after a goaltender interference call against Kyle Palmieri lost the Islanders a game against the Blue Jackets that started their season’s death spiral, they were on the wrong end of another controversial call against those same Blue Jackets that might have had the same effect.
On the Queens side of town, the reno began in earnest almost as soon as Francisco Lindor grounded into the 4-6-3 double play. That ended a 4-0 loss before a rare sizable crowd at Miami’s loanDepot Park last Sept. 27, all of them there to witness the final death rattles of an epic baseball calamity.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba is being paid handsomely for his breakout season.
Next comes the harder part. Mostly because it can’t get any easier.
It was Kids Day at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, but for the Rangers, it’s been All About The Kids for months.
PORT ST. LUCIE — From the moment he was told he needed surgery on his left hamate bone, Francisco Lindor fixated on the recovery time. Trainers provided the Mets shortstop a six-week pathway to return to play, and Lindor was determined to hit every marker.
Dylan Garand knew the number off the top of his head. He knew that, between the regular season and playoffs, he’d logged over 160 games with AHL Hartford, and he was right. Before the Rangers recalled him Friday, Garand had served as the Wolf Pack’s goaltender 165 times.