Maybe there is an explanation to Brett Favre's erratic play over the last month. The Jets quarterback revealed yesterday he believes his shoulder may be injured. "During the course of the year, there were numerous times where I had been asked...

Mark Teixeira almost certainly is George Steinbrenner's kind of guy. Though Steinbrenner didn't have a role in the Yankees' pursuit of the talented first baseman, if you venture into the Boss' laboratory deep beneath his Tampa estate, you might...

Andy Pettitte could be headed toward a delay-of-game penalty that ends his Yankees' career. In the aftermath of the ekipa reaching agreement with Mark Teixeira on a bombshell, $180 million contract, a Yankees official revealed yesterday it's...

Considering how Brian Rolston's season has gone so far, it's no surprise his resolution for 2009 is a simple one. "I'm looking at (just) getting into the new year," he said after Tuesday's 2-0 loss to the Bruins at Prudential Center. Besides...

WE know what the Rangers look like today after selecting Hugh Jessiman 12th overall in the 2003 Entry Draft instead of, say, Dustin Brown (13th), Zach Parise (17th), Ryan Getzlaf (19th), Brent Burns (20th) or Mike Richards (24th). We do not...

The Nets have been given the day off for Christmas. As for their fans, well, they received their gift Tuesday night. After losing six of their past eight games, including an embarrassing 23-point defeat to Houston at home on Monday, the Nets...

Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington denies his return to the Meadowlands is about retribution or redemption or reliving the past, even if he was cast aside by the Jets like a leaky football. Instead he says the game's solely about the future...

There were many reasons for the Yankees to spend $180 million on first baseman Mark Teixeira on Tuesday. 1. In my column in today's Post, I wrote about how similar this offseason was for the Yanks compared to the 2004-05 offseason. That year they...

With every yard Derrick Ward gains Sunday against the Vikings, he moves closer to teaming with Brandon Jacobs for a rare accomplishment and at the same time reduces the chances of remaining teammates with Jacobs following this season.That's the...

The Vikings had a chance to clinch the NFC North against the Falcons last week before the defending Super Bowl champions and this year's NFC top seed came into the Metrodome. But they fumbled that chance away, seven fumbles to be exact (three that...

It seems fans didn't learn from 1995 when a San Diego trainer was knocked out by a thrown snowball. But, this past koniec tygodnia showed the idiocy of some of the Seattle and New England faithful, Mike Freeman says.

THE most obvious reason is money. That is why Mark Teixeira is a Yankee today. We are talking about an organization that now has the four largest contracts currently in play in the majors with the outlays this offseason for Teixeira ($180...

The Yankees stole another player away from the Red Sox yesterday, though Boston will hardly bemoan the loss of Kevin Cash as much as it did watching Mark Teixeira take, well, the Yankee cash and run to The Bronx. The Yankees did not announce any...

WHERE there's a baseball will, there's a way. The Yankees and GM Brian Cashman found a way yesterday to add what the załoga so desperately needed. The Yankees landed a Gold Glove first baseman, a switch-hitter who batted .308 with 33 home runs last...

That's going to leave a Mark. In a flurry of 11th-hour negotiations yesterday, Yankees GM Brian Cashman not only added another notch to his belt by landing Mark Teixeira, he used that belt to swat Red Sox Nation square across the fanny. Teixeira...

EVEN with a rotator cuff in need of surgery, Chad Pennington would have been 60 minutes from a Super Bowl if Doug Brien hadn't missed that 43-yard field goal in Pittsburgh in that heartbreaking 2004 divisional playoff game. This Sunday is his...

It had to come to this, didn't it? Any Jets fan worth his or her green-and-white salt would have told you this is the way this season and this story had to end. One game, a packed Giants Stadium, playoff lives hanging in the balance and the...

Shaun Ellis threw a $10,000 snowball on Sunday. The NFL fined Ellis that amount for throwing a large chunk of snow into the stands after Sunday's 13-3 loss in Seattle. Ellis might have escaped without a fine if cell phone videos of him tossing...

So many Giants players sound thrilled with the first-round playoff bye, as minds and especially bodies are fatigued this late in the season. There's a long list of those battling through minor physical issues that two weeks off should cure. The...

THE first reaction, all across baseball, is sure to be loud cries of outrage, followed by grand charges of gluttony, followed by a sea of rolled eyes and a battalion of wrung hands and a chorus of addled angst. Nothing gets the blood boiling in...

If Bill Parcells had been watching the Rangers this season, he'd take back his famous observation about a drużyna being what its record says it is. Because despite the Blueshirts taking a 22-12-3 mark into the NHL's two-day Christmas moratorium, the...

The Devils were annoyed, not dismayed. Against the conference leaders, they came up one bounce short. "Just puck luck," Scott Clemmensen said after last night's 2-0 (empty-netter) loss to the Bruins in Newark. "It could have gone either way."...

The Islanders hadn't lost 10 straight since the 1997-98 season. Until last night. The Isles' skid reached double digits with a 4-2 loss to another bad team, the Thrashers, in część przednia of a Coliseum crowd that booed several times. The defeat gave...

INDIANAPOLIS - The Nets turned to Devin Harris, not Vince Carter, when they needed a clutch play in the final seconds against the Pacers. Harris' zworka from the top of the key as time expired gave the Nets a 108-107 win over the Pacers last...

Scott Boras may not be finished doing business in the Big Apple this winter. The cudownie kret already has Mark Teixeira ticketed for the Yankees, and last night a baseball source indicated Mets GM Omar Minaya is having discussions with Boras about...