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TUESDAY'S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:NBA: Cleveland at San Antonio, 8 p.m. (TNT)NBA: Boston at LA Lakers, 10:30 p.m. (NBCSB, TNT)NHL: New Jersey at Boston, 7 p.m. (NESN)NHL: Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. (NBCSN)
AROUND THE WEB:
-- Add Jake Tapper to the list of people who hate the Patriots.
The CNN anchor and noted Eagles fan made his feelings known to Brooke Baldwin on the network on Monday.
Forget about TRUMP, @JakeTapper is FINALLY speaking truth to power on THE most important issue of the day: "The @Patriots are cheaters, @BrookebCNN. The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team" -- https://t.co/nGVqxfJZUv
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) January 22, 2018"The Patriots are cheaters, Brooke. The Patriots cheat," Tapper said. "This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team … The facts speak for themselves."
Tapper doubled-down on his comments when he then tweeted out the 2015 story from ESPN's Don Van Natta and Seth Wickersham titled, "Spygate to Deflategate: Inside what split the NFL and Patriots apart."
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 22, 2018Tapper said this partly to anger CNN colleague John Berman, a Mass. native.
"Bless your heart, @jaketapper." Berman tweeted to him.
To which Tapper replied:
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 22, 2018This is going to be a long two weeks.
-- A bakery in Philadelphia has made the bold move to stop selling Boston cream donuts until after the Eagles face the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
"Until the Eagles win the Super Bowl, we won't be serving our Boston cream donuts or any other 'New England themed' donuts," the doughnut shop posted on Facebook.
According to Boston.com, the bakery's owner, Jeff Poleon, said the shop has never sold "New England-themed donuts" and they "definitely won't be doing any in the next two weeks."
"No clam chowder donuts," Poleon said. "Or a glaze with those Boston baked bean candies on top. Definitely no Gronk Monster Energy-glazed donuts."
That is so cliché I cringed.
In honor of the Eagles win, the bakery created a strange "Eagles fan on greased pole" donut made of chocolate, vanilla and matcha glaze.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Well after the game, after the game was kind of over and everything kind of settled down, actually I had my son here at the game. He hasn't really been to a lot of games. He's been to two. So that was kind of his second game and he wanted to go play in the field. So we played a good game of touch football. He beat me four-nothing so he kind of out-ran me there a little bit and made some good plays on me. I couldn't catch him. Just fun to have him out there running around and just seeing the excitement that he had to be out on the field. That's always just kind of a special little moment for myself and him and my wife." -- Matt Patricia, on the special time with his son on the field after the Patriots won the AFC Championship
