At no point this season has the injury report been this long for the Giants. Typically, the names of four or five players are listed along with their particular injury. The sheet handed out yesterday contained 12 names, including several notables...

The Giants yesterday brought in veteran receiver Joe Horn for a look, giving him a physical, but he left without a contract. Horn, 36, said he did not think the Giants were serious about signing him. "I had a great workout, I thought," Horn said...

THE Giants lost two of their three best offensive players and, duh, the points dried up. So did the praise for their renowned depth, which now looks as ordinary as the drużyna did against Philadelphia and Dallas. None of the Giants receivers ever...

As the big, bad Panthers come to town with the hottest running para in the league, the Giants are hoping running back Brandon Jacobs can lug the piłka nożna on Sunday and restore the team's physical presence that's been sorely missing during a...

Jerry Manuel is putting the egos of his two new All-Star relievers to the badanie next season. The Mets manager revealed yesterday that Francisco Rodriguez and J.J. Putz will share the closing duties next season, a zapowiedź that could cause fireworks...

John Maine has a message for the Phillies: Shut up already! The Mets pitcher fired back at the mouthy world champions yesterday, saying he remains puzzled by the barrage of critical comments coming from Cole Hamels and other Phillies in recent...

The Nets started last night with the best defensive first quarter in their franchise history, but finished it with their biggest collapse in recent memory. They started their collapse by blowing a 22-point lead, but their crunch-time capitulation...

BUFFALO - The coach cleared some air with the Devils' biggest-ever free-agent acquisition, recovering from significant injury. Coach Brent Sutter liked what he saw afterward from Brian Rolston. "That was Brian's best game since he's been with us...

LOS ANGELES - And so it turns out that the Rangers did not have to compete to the maximum and did not have to play their best hockey in medal to win here last night. In fact, last night's 3-2 overtime victory over the Kings that ended with...

LOS ANGELES - Mats Sundin is waiting for the Rangers to clear enough cap space to present him with a full-season $6 million contract offer before he commits to joining the Blueshirts, The Post has learned. Thus, with the NHL holiday roster...

GM Omar Minaya doesn't know which free-agent starting pitcher the Mets will sign, but manager Jerry Manuel today made it clear he would like to have Oliver Perez back in orange and blue. "I like Oliver Perez," Manuel told reporters at the press...

Jeff Wilpon's phone rang last Thursday and his father was on the line. "He said, 'Bernie was arrested by the FBI.' I'm like, 'No way,'" the New York Mets chief operating officer recalled Wednesday. So Wilpon started searching the net for...

Brett Favre is well aware this season – and maybe his career - is heading toward its conclusion. "It could be my last three games or last four games, I don't know," Favre said today. "I think that every player, you're always an injury away...

Francisco Rodriguez officially joined the Mets today, and tomorrow J.J. Putz will be announced at a press conference at Citi Field. It is one of the few times this season that Rodriguez will show up before Putz. The Mets brought in two closers...

THE Brett Favre experiment, which began 131 days ago when he stepped off a private plane in Cleveland, has come down to this: two games, eight quarters, 120 minutes of football. If the Jets' season is over when the final whistle blows in two...

LOS ANGELES -Stephon Marbury went from banished pariah to a Knicks good-luck charm last night. But it lasted only for one half. With Marbury sitting courtside after buying a ticket, the Knicks nearly pulled off a massive upset over the mighty...

LOS ANGELES - He's baaaack ! After a training session yesterday morning in the Hollywood Hills, banned Stephon Marbury shocked the Knicks by attending their game last night vs. the Lakers at Staples Center as a fan. Marbury sat in a corner...

Five games into his NFL career, Tiki Barber as a rookie in 1997 cut through a hole in a game at Giants Stadium against the Saints, tripped and fell straight down on his right knee. Something felt wrong. Barber later learned he had completely...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After watching DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart combine for 301 yards rushing and four touchdowns in the Panthers' last game, Denver coach Mike Shanahan was determined to slow down one of the running backs in the league's...

ELI Manning doesn't agree to many sit- down interviews, but he did last week for NBC's Tiki Barber, who some may remember as the best running back in Giants history. It went well. "It cleared the air for everybody else who think Eli and I are...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Tom Renney laid out the challenge. "This is a pretty crucial part of the season," the Rangers' head coach said prior to last night's match, which opened a California tour that continues tonight in L.A. before concluding...

Come April, CC Sabathia is going to be No. 1 and A.J. Burnett No. 2 in the Yankees' rebuilt rotation. However, tomorrow the biggest prizes in the free-agent sklep wielkopowierzchniowy will be introduced together at a 1 p.m. press conference at the old Yankee...

Brett Favre can do no wrong in the eyes of many fans, who do the wrong thing by voting in their hero as a Pro Bowl reserve. Favre isn't even the most deserving QB in the AFC East, Mike Freeman says as Chad Pennington is overlooked again.

The Giants may be slumping a bit down the stretch of the season, but they are soaring as far as recognition. A year after managing just one Pro Bowl selection - a fact they used as motivation during their Super Bowl run - the Giants this year will...

According to Pro Bowl voting, the Jets are the best drużyna in the NFL. A stunning seven Jets were named to the AFC Pro Bowl drużyna yesterday, a year after the drużyna had zero. The 9-5 Jets have the most Pro Bowlers in the NFL, even topping the...