All of the Patriots’ 2010 preseason games will be televised in the Boston television market on WBZ-TV Channel 4. A network of regional affiliates will also broadcast the games on Aug. 12, Aug. 26 and Sept.2 on the Patriots Preseason TV Network.

The Patriots’ Aug. 19 game at Atlanta will be broadcast nationally on FOX.

Don Criqui and Randy Cross will call the games while WBZ-TV’s Steve Burton roams the sidelines.

New England Patriots Preseason TV Network New England Affiliates

• WBZ – Boston, MA (flagship)
• WWLP – Springfield, MA
• WNAC – Providence, RI
• WMTW – Portland/Auburn, ME
• WVII – Bangor, ME (just 8/12 game)
• WFVX – Bangor, ME (8/26 and 9/2 games)
• WMUR – Manchester, NH
• WVNY – Burlington, VT
• WCTX – Hartford/New Haven, CT

Other Affiliates:

• KHNL – Honolulu, HI
• KIMO – Anchorage, AK
• Rogers SportsNet East – Maritime Region of Canada

For the 2010 season, New England Patriots fans can listen to every play of every game on the “Safety Insurance 98.5 The Sports Hub Patriots Radio Network”. Each game, home and away, from preseason to post season is broadcast from the three-time Super Bowl Champions flagship station WBZ-FM in Boston with Gil Santos calling the play-by-play and Patriots Hall of Fame member Gino Cappelletti providing the color commentary. The 2010 season marks the 27th year together of the Patriots announcing team.

To get you ready for the game, make sure you tune in along the Patriots Radio Network three hours prior to game time for Patriots Preview and stay for three hours after the game with Patriots Postgame. Veteran TV and radio personality Gary Tanguay hosts both shows and he is joined by former Patriots quarterback Sott Zolak and sports radio personality Andy Gresh. Patriots Preview is an information packed prelude to kickoff, and has the only game-day interviews with head coach Bill Belichick and Patriots president Jonathan Kraft. Patriots Postgame wraps up the game with a breakdown of the game, live press conferences with the players who made a difference and reaction from you, the fans.

A full look at the stations after the jump.

Below is a list of the stations in the Patriots radio network. If you are outside of the broadcast area of the stations on the Patriots Radio Network you can purchase NFL Field Pass which allows you to listen to any NFL game live on your computer. NFL game feeds are also available with a subscription to Sirius Satellite Radio.

The New England Patriots have signed their first round draft pick CB Devin McCourty (1st Round -27th overall) out of Rutgers University. McCourty inked a five year deal with a max value of $13.2 million of which $7.825 million is in guarantees and bonuses.

He is the last of the teams 12 draft picks to sign a contract but only the second of all the first rounders in the league. Only Dallas WR Dez Bryant (21st overall) had signed prior to McCourty.

McCourty is likely to be in camp today ready for the start of team workouts tomorrow.

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No matter what sport you play or watch one of the key components to putting yourself in position to win, whether it’s a single game or over the course of entire season, is getting off to a good start. You have a good start you feel confident, you may win a game you shouldn’t against a difficult opponent and before you know it your team has a huge boost of confidence and anything is possible.

According to some research by Mike Reiss of ESPN Boston, the New England Patriots are second in the NFL with the most consecutive season opening wins with six. Only the Pittsburgh Steelers have more with seven. That means going into the 2010 season opener the Patriots haven’t started their season with a loss since 2003. Just to refresh your memory, that was the 31-0 pounding in Buffalo by the Bills who had just signed former New England DB Lawyer Malloy after he was cut. This was the game that brought about the quote from Tom Jackson of ESPN “let me say this clearly…they [the Patriots players] hate their coach.”

So much for my theory, and Jackson’s, because the Patriots went 14-2 and won their second Super Bowl in three years. They would win the following one as well becoming the last NFL team to win back-to-back titles.

By the way the Patriots, who open at home against Cincinnati, have never lost a home opener (1st home game of the season) in Gillette Stadium where they are 8-0 since 2002 and have won 13 of the last 15. In their last 10 road openers (1st road game of the season) they are 5-5 under Bill Belichick and they are 1-2 since 2000 when they open the season on the road which hasn’t happened since 2007 when they massacred the Jets in the Meadowlands 38-14.

Here’s a look at the current streaks, wins or losses, to open a season:

Wins: Steelers — 7; Patriots — 6; Broncos — 3; Cowboys — 3; Packers — 3

Losses: Raiders — 7; Browns — 5; Buccaneers — 4; Chiefs — 4; Dolphins — 4; Jaguars — 3; Rams — 3

Photo credit: Boston Globe

New England Patriots fans have already wondered if wide receiver Wes Welker was superhuman because of his play on the field. Now they’re wondering due to Welker’s seemingly superhuman healing capacity.

Personally I was amazed when he appeared on the practice field for minicamp earlier this summer but now the word is out that Welker will do full participation in drills at training camp which starts on Thursday.

This is a mere seven months since Welker tore his ACL an injury that at times needs an entire year before an athlete can return. We’ve started to see athletes comebck from this injury sooner but I can’t recall a football player coming back so soon from such a devastating injury. Sure TO came back in four weeks but that was a broken leg and even that was stunning but this recovery by Welker out does that.

It makes you wonder did Welker borrow TO’s hyperbaric chamber?

Whatever he did to get back on the field is an amazing tribute to his desire to win. Now hopefully he’s truly fully healed and dangerous as ever because Tom Brady and the Patriots are much better team with Welker in slot instead of on the sideline.

Photo credit: AP Photo, SOX & Dawgs illustration

The New England Patriots open training camp on Thursday, July 29 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA. Not all of the practices, sessions and scrimmages are open to the public but the team does a good job of keeping the fans updated.

One thing you need to be aware of before you travel to the Razor is that the staff can and will and has closed an open practice just prior to its start. You can keep updated on the fly at patriots.com through the training camp page as well as on the teams Facebook and Twitter sites.

As we get closer to the start, Ian or myself will post the open practice schedule for the day as well.

And be sure to check out the Doc’s Sports Journal. The 160 page publication has the complete football schedules for the NFL and college teams as well as information on the teams.

Here’s what it includes:

• Exclusive information and articles
• COMPLETE College and NFL team information
• College and NFL Statistics
• Odds, Trends, Historical Angles
• Individual Game information Including:
  (Kick off time, Artificial Turf vs. Grass, Match-up information, Last years Final score, Next weeks opponent.)
• An excellent handicapping tool

New England Patriots linebacker Gary Guyton signed a two year contract extension with the team. Guyton, an undrafted free agent from Georgia Tech, made $350,000 in 2009 while racking up 85 tackles while playing all 16 games.

The two-year deal which covers 2010 and 2011, will pay Guyton $505,000 this season; $1 million next season plus he gets a guaranteed signing bonus of $650,000. Guyton is competing for a starting linebacker position with the team and also plays a pivotal role on the special teams unit.

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The New England Patriots have announced that they will wear 1985 replica uniforms in two games in the upcoming 2010 NFL season. The team, which has officially dropped the alternate silver jersey, will wear the alternate uniforms commemorating the 1985 Super Bowl XX team that was crushed in New Orleans by the Chicago Bears, 46-3.

The uniforms, which will feature the red jersey with Pat Patriot on the white helmet, are very similar to AFL 50th Anniversary throw backs the team wore last season. The team is allowed to wear them twice during the NFL season and will wear them at home on October 31 against the Minnesota Vikings and on the road November 25 in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day.

On that day I’d expect to see the white jersey with the red pants that was the road uniform for the club.

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Former New England Patriots and Cincinnati Bengals running back Corey Dillon pleaded not guilty in Malibu Superior Court to two misdemeanor charges stemming from a DUI arrest he had in Calabasas CA on April 2.

Two deputies witnessed two males in a red Camaro, driven by Dillon, driving very slowly behind them. They pulled the car over and arrested Dillon for suspicion of driving under the influence.

Dillon was also arrested on a domestic violence charge on May 1 after an altercation with his wife. Those charges were later dropped by the prosecutor who cited lack of evidence.

There was no information released on when Dillon is to appear next in Malibu Superior Court on the DUI charges.

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I’m pretty sure there are no words that describe how big New England Patriots QB Tom Brady’s new house is going to be.