Devin Harris sounds like he doesn't even bother looking at the schedule anymore. Take the Nets' next two games. "Who we playing the next two games?" Harris said. Well, the next two games have the Nets going against the Jazz in a rematch game...

TORONTO - For the first time since Martin Brodeur went down to injury, the Devils settled for the charity point of tie-breaking defeat. A borderline tactic scuttled them, and their own dubious decision sank them. Ex-Islander Jason Blake scored...

przedstawiciel Scott Boras might have the delicious bidding battle he craves for Manny Ramirez. The Yankees admit an interest in the controversial free-agent slugger to bolster a lineup with holes. Now the Angels appear to have Ramirez in their sights if...

In a season that is becoming more and more about next year - and the years after that - even losses can be good things. While the Islanders certainly weren't pleased to have dropped their seventh straight, most focused on the third-period...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Tom Renney has made it clear. The Rangers coach doesn't particularly want to know whether the unresolved Mats Sundin situation is creating a distraction in his team's locker room. "What could I say or do that would relieve...

LOS ANGELES - After a training session this morning in the Hollywood Hills, exiled Knicks guard Stephon Marbury was planning to attend tonight's game against the Lakers at Staples Center as a fan. It would be his first time around the Knicks...

Eli Manning could have gone to the Pro Bowl with his brother several times, but the Giants quarterback always turned him down. "Peyton has invited me before," Manning said, "but I wanted to go when I made it on my own." He can now. A year after...

A.J. Burnett went ahead of CC Sabathia taking a Yankees physical, but Sabathia will reverse the pecking odznaczenie in the Yankees' starting rotation. The Post learned Burnett underwent a physical Monday and Sabathia was at Manhattan's Columbia...

NFC STARTERS: OFFENSE QB: Kurt Warner, Cardinals RB: Adrian Peterson, Vikings FB: Mike Sellers, Redskins WR: Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals WR: Anquan Boldin, Cardinals TE: Jason Witten, Cowboys T: Jordan Gross, Panthers T: Walter Jones...

PHOENIX - Despite being banned from the Knicks, Stephon Marbury is planning to attend the team's game against the Lakers on Tuesday night at Staples Center, according to a source close to the situation. Marbury told The Post last week he was...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Even if the power play worked at 75-percent speed during practice here yesterday, at least it worked. That is a początek for a Rangers' ekipa that will enter tonight's match against the Ducks with a 20-11-2 record despite a power...

TORONTO - Raptors fans brought their usual supply of venom last night for the Nets' Vince Carter, the man they used to love but now would love to see fall off a cliff. But while they focused their wrath on Carter, other elements - Devin Harris...

With the Devils heading on the road for a back-to-back tonight in Toronto and tomorrow in Buffalo, there's a good chance both Scott Clemmensen and Kevin Weekes will get a początek in goal over the next two days. But if the decision was left to...

Rick DiPietro hasn't returned to practice yet, but he is expected to make the odlot with the Islanders to Minnesota on Friday and could skate with the skład then. "I think there's a realistic shot," coach Scott Gordon said of the goalie's possible...

The offense is sagging around Eli Manning and as a result the Giants are in danger of wasting much of the sensational season they put together because of a late swoon. Manning is using words like "frustrated" and phrases such as "upset with myself...

Finalizing the mega deals for CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett has consumed the Yankees' universe to the point where the Mike Cameron for Melky Cabrera and Kei Igawa swap with the Brewers has gone into a freeze. Since the Brewers have had limited...

TORONTO -– Vince Carter helped legitimize basketball here. And they still hate his guts. Carter spoke at length yesterday about coming to a city that was "hockey, hockey, hockey" 24/7 and watching both the sport and the Raptors grow before...

Kenny Lofton vehemently denied he attempted to talk CC Sabathia out of joining the Yankees. A person close to the Sabathia situation told The Post for Monday's paper that Lofton pointed out the negatives of New York to his former Indians...

The Jets had their worst day defending the run against the Bills on Sunday. Their offense disappeared after 1½ quarters. Their special teams misfired more than a '73 Pinto. Yet it was all glossed over with 2:06 left in the game when Bills...

WE are constantly re minded - most recently by the 2007 Giants - that it is not how you start, but how you finish. So, wake up, Giants. Every Sunday is Super Sunday now. The 2008 Giants will assure us that this is no time to początek pushing the...

PHOENIX - Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni received a rousing ovation during pregame introductions from the US Airways Arena fans, many of them standing and applauding to show their appreciation of his tenure as coach of the Suns from 2003-08. "It was...

Seeing how their running game has devolved into perturbacja without Brandon Jacobs, the Giants are eager to get their bruising running back on the field for Sunday's game against the Panthers, which shapes up as a battle for supremacy in the NFC...

Dick Jauron, not Shaun Ellis, looked like the one who was smoking something at the end of yesterday's stunning Jets victory over Buffalo. The Bills coach inexplicably called a pass with two minutes left and his drużyna in complete control that...

ORCHARD PARK - Bills coach Dick Jauron anticipates he'll be back next season despite receiving no public assurances from zespół management or owner Ralph Wilson - and overseeing a meltdown that reached a low after Buffalo's latest bumbling loss. In...

PHOENIX - Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said his ballyhooed Phoenix return tonight at US Airways Center feels like the anticipation of Christmas. "Not the presents, but the anticipation up to it," D'Antoni said yesterday after the Knicks practiced...