Mike Reiss of ESPN wrote a reaction piece with seven takeaways from a 10,000-word piece by ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham about the New England Patriots' Spygate story.

Two of the seven takeaways were removed by ESPN after it was published.

In response to the ESPN report that Patriots employees entered the visiting team’s locker room and stole materials like play sheets, Reiss provided a blast of common sense that was missing from the story: “Security’s extremely tight throughout Gillette Stadium. Don’t think too many people, if any, are casually walking into the visitors’ locker room. And let’s just say they are, who leaves play sheets around?”

Also removed from the original version was this final observation from Reiss: “When you’re at the top, everyone likes to bring you down. A longtime sportscaster with a deep history in Boston relayed this thought to me that resonated: ‘They used to say same the stuff about Red Auerbach.'”

Here’s what ESPN had to say about the changes: “[T]he story was given a tighter edit after its initial posting.”

ESPN did not remove criticism of a corresponding report from Sports Illustrated.