Patriots offensive tackle Nick Kaczur was arrested in April on illegal possession of prescription painkillers, then he worked with the DEA in a sting operation that resulted in the indictment of his supplier.  In other words, according to Carmelo Anthny, Kaczur is due for stitches.

Kaczur… wore a hidden recording device during three different drug transactions in May at gas stations in Foxborough and North Attleborough and a supermarket parking lot in Sharon, according to the lawyer, the two people, and federal court documents. At each of the three transactions, Kaczur paid $3,900 in cash to buy 100 OxyContin pills, a potent prescription pain reliever…

$390 for a single OxyContin pill?  Now THAT is a crime. 

[Attorney Bernard] Grossberg said that, according to DEA documents presented to him before the indictment, Kaczur said he had begun buying OxyContin in November 2007 and purchased 100 pills every few days, paying tens of thousands of dollars over time.

So lemme get this straight.  A starting offensive lineman in the NFL can't get a prescription for OcyContin?  His entire job is getting hit by athletic freaks of nature.  How does that not merit a couple painkillers?  Or a couple hundred.  Every few days.  Okay maybe he has a problem.

[FanHaus; Kissing Suzy Kolber] 

Earlier today, Busted Coverage reported that the New England Patriots have an 18-year-old cheerleader who's still in high school, which inspired the intrepid With Leather team of stalk-y readers and staff to produce the first confirmed photo of Rebecca Lucas.  Everyone's parents — from Becca's to our own — are no doubt thrilled with this development.  "Hello, Pulitzers?  You can stop looking for investigative reporting pieces."

As we close this chapter on Becca and tiptoe away slowly — verrrrry slowly — before the pitchfork-wielding Moral Correctness Brigade arrives, we have a few more pictures of Becca relaxing with friends.  No booze, no apparent wild partying or jailbait-y photos.  The Patriots, apparently, have selected a wholesome, attractive young woman to represent them on the sidelines. 

Which, of course, is more than Red Sox Nation can say about the Great Wall of China.

As the New England Patriots continue to field linebackers from the Mesozoic Era, they are getting younger on one part of the field: the sidelines. That's because they've concentrated their rebuilding efforts on getting younger in the cheerleading squad, having brought on 18-year-old Rebecca Lucas, who is still a high school senior, at least for the next few days. The collective powers of the internet (Google image search, flicking the screen real hard) have yet to dig up a picture of her. Her hometown paper does a hard-hitting, favorite-color-identifying interview with the next bearer of Tom Brady's spawn.

What are the most unusual aspects of the job?

"When you're at promotional events and your family comes, you can't hug them. There is a good reason, because other people don't know they're your family and might expect the same treatment."

Yup. No double standards in Bill Belichick's camp.  What's good for the family is good for the 53-man roster. Besides, the Patriots are your family now. Don't look for your birth parents. They've already been tossed in the Honorary Goodell-Kraft Cheating Evidence Incinerator.

UPDATE — One of our industrious readers, who wishes not to be IDed to avoid inevitable stalking charges, has turned up a photo of young Becca (she's the one on the right). And, uh, wow. None too shabby. 

Red Sox Nation welcomed another into its fold when earlier this month Ryan Rogers was baptized in a font of blood from Schilling's sock at Fenway Park. How generous of the team to allow some private suite above the field to play host to that. A well-worn Sawx hat then materialized on the kid's head, he developed a speech that dropped all R's and he gained a predilection towards oversensitivity and casual racism. Eight vaginae also formed on various locations on his body, mostly on his face. 

He then pledged his life to the ever-shriller defense of the Red Sox, yelling "Youk!" at passersby, and following the Celtics and the Patriots, so long as they're winning. 

A reader sent Don Chavez this picture of Wes Welker at the Kentucky Derby asking a photographer to check to see if any of his trademark grit has gotten between his teeth. Is there a Masshole alive who isn't going to print this out, cut a mouth hole and put it over their girlfriend's face? Now that Spygate is over, we're forced to feed our Patriots animus with embarrassing drunk photos and wondering why Tom Brady refuses to wear any Boston team paraphernalia in his free time. Nice Giants hat yesterday, Tom. That's a subtle dig.

Chavez spots a resemblance between blondey and the girl who had a Patriots Super Bowl ring stuffed in her cleavage from a few months ago. I'm not so sure, but it'll take a few more minutes of one-handed typing just to make certain. 

The Boston Herald massively fucked up a report that claimed former Patriots Director of Espionage (*may not have been actual title) Matt Walsh had filmed the Rams' final walk-through prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.  Turns out no such tape ever existed, and now there's talk that the Pats may file suit.  The Herald, meanwhile, has thrown the vehicle into reverse and floored the gas, running a front-page apology in today's paper.

While the Boston Herald based its Feb. 2, 2008, report on sources that it believed to be credible, we now know that this report was false, and that no tape of the walkthrough ever existed.

Prior to the publication of its Feb. 2, 2008, article, the Boston Herald neither possessed nor viewed a tape of the Rams’ walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI, nor did we speak to anyone who had. We should not have published the allegation in the absence of firmer verification.

Ooh, that's gotta sting.  As Shanoff noted, though, everyone who accepted the Herald story as fact and ran with it should probably apologize as well.  So I went through the With Leather archives.  I searched "SpyGate" and found nothing.  I searched "Matt Walsh" and found nothing.  Then I realized, Oh yeah, that story was dull as shit, so I never bothered to waste time writing about it (the most news it made at WL was this joke-y weekend post by KD).  No apologies from me.  Hey Pats, please note that the standing "fuck you" is still in order.