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NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal appeals court has ruled that New England Patriots Tom Brady must serve a four-game ''Deflategate''suspension imposed by the NFL, overturning a lower judge and siding with the league in a battle with the players union.

The 2015 NFL season officially kicks off Thursday night in New England, where the defending Super Bowl champion Patriots will begin their quest to repeat with a tough first-week game against the Steelers. The rest of the league gets started on Sunday. Here’s what you need to know about Week 1.

Tom Brady has, according to the Associated Press, beat the NFL in its 'Deflategate' court case, and the judge has nullified the NFL's four-game suspension.

The New England Patriots opened training camp opened on Thursday. And boy was it memorable.

After months of back-and-forth, the National Football League has decided not to shorten Tom Brady's four-game suspension for tampering with game balls prior to January's AFC Championship game.

Tom Brady's suspension because of the Deflategate scandal is a matter of life and death.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is being suspended for four games without pay for his alleged knowledge of the intentional under-inflation of footballs in the "Deflategate" scandal.

The NFL has come down hard on Tom Brady.

Remember "Deflategate"? The NFL released the so-called Wells Report earlier today (full doc here), the result of a months-long, extensive investigation into whether the footballs used in the Patriots-Colts AFC Championship Game back in January were illegally tampered with. So were they? According to the report, probably.

It's hard to believe that the biggest story before the Super Bowl is about the amount of air in some footballs, but Deflategate continues to be the scandal that won't go away. With that in mind, the New York Times decided to do some investigative reporting to show fans just what goes on in a Wilson football factory.