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Christen Graham in Boston Globe on celebrity athlete’s charitable motivations

The Boston Globe wrote a piece about New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s compensation for supporting the Best Buddies program, a surprise to many readers who thought the relationship was unpaid and purely charitable. This is a familiar refrain, in the vein of prior Globe coverage of sports stars that set up foundations more to build their reputations rather than for social impact.

Read her letter to the editor in the Boston Globe.