A friend once explained the sports writing business this way: ''We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.''
Martin Mauricio Ortega was OK with the first part, but apparently not the second.
The one-time Mexican media executive and part-time memorabilia dealer is the only suspect named so far in the overheated investigation into who stole Tom Brady's Super Bowl jersey. When news broke, I figured it was the same guys accused of deflating his footballs, trying to make a buck after all the trouble that stunt caused them.
But no.