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A day after the Boston Herald apologized for its February 2 article saying the New England Patriots taped the St. Louis Rams' final practice before the 2002 Super Bowl, the paper's editor is both reiterating the apology and standing by the reporter who wrote the story.

In an editor's note in today's paper, Kevin R. Convey says he won't throw reporter John Tomase under the bus:

Nevertheless, I continue to stand behind the work of the Herald sports department and John Tomase, a talented journalist who has dealt with this difficult matter professionally while continuing to do his job under intense pressure.

In the end, as editor in chief of the Herald, I take full responsibility for the publication of this story, and I offer my own apology to our readers and our staff.

That statement would seem to indicate that the Herald plans to keep Tomase on the Patriots beat. I would expect the Patriots to make life difficult on him this year.