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Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.

I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN. I'm Mike Lupica at MLB.com in the New York Daily News.

I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

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In case you were absent for the last 40 days and are just rejoining us, never mind.

Tom Brady's not retiring.

Tom Brady's coming back to the NFL.

Only Tom Brady could basically wipe the entire

NCAA tournament off the front pages because he announced this yesterday, right about the time

that they were announcing who's going to play whom in the big dance. So we will get to that

and some of the other developments in the NFL. But this is stunning to say the least. Some people saw it coming.

Most did not. He seemed quite adamant about the reasons that he was retiring and he had

seen enough, et cetera, et cetera. And then he comes back with a tweet and basically says the last

two months have shown me when I'm just thinking he must have looked

at his future and said this is this is it now this is I'm going to run back to the locker room

and he's back just in time for free agency by the way which I think had a lot to do with it

because that starts this week and boy the bucks who he chose to go back to have a lot of free agents they need to try

to re-sign if they want to recreate what they had last year well i cannot say that i predicted it

but i can truthfully say that it doesn't surprise me one little bit i was about 50-50 and that

i didn't believe it and and one of the reasons was that he carefully worded that statement to

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