Mark Teixeira and Manny Ramirez are still available to the Yankees, but it doesn't appear GM Brian Cashman will have either player sitting under his Christmas tree this week. "We don't have any offers out there on anybody," Cashman said...

AFTER 15 games this season, Brandon Jacobs's knee and Jason Tuck's leg scream to them the value of the Giants' first-round playoff bye. And history does, too. As good as the Giants feel about getting off the two-game schneid, rising to the...

The Giants possess many of the admirable traits any fans craves for his favorite team, but invulnerability is not one of them. If you cut them, they will bleed (no Plaxico Burress jokes, please). If you force them through a...

When the question came up about whether the Jets will be playing to save coach Eric Mangini's job Sunday against the Dolphins, fullback Tony Richardson probably spoke for just about everyone on his beleaguered team. "You play for your own job,"...

AT the end, the critical end, it turns out the Brett Favre they thought they were getting was not the one they had flying the jet. At 8-3, he was still the Hall of Fame icon. Once the calendar turned to December, he was just another 39-year-old...

With Christmas around the corner, here komes grodowy the return of Eddy Curry. The Knicks' former starting center is back in coach Mike D'Antoni's plans and could make his season debut in less than two weeks. Curry confirmed he is on track to join the...

Rick DiPietro took part in his first full practice since October, and although coach Scott Gordon refused to put a timetable on the goalie's return, he sounded optimistic that it won't be long. "I hope so," Gordon responded when asked if DiPietro...

Manny Ramirez is a little different, personality-wise, from a lot of other major league players. If he ends up playing in The Bronx, though, Derek Jeter doesn't sound too concerned about having that outsized personality on his team. Whether...

When the Rangers made the decision to forge ahead without consuming presences Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan, a vacuum was created in the room and a void was created on the ice. And while the egalitarian culture created by management and...

With about 6:30 left in the first half, figure about 200 million TV sets in China and a couple dozen in New Jersey turned off. Not even Yao Ming of the Rockets and the Nets' Yi Jianlian playing in the same game could sustain interest in this...

Defense was supposed to be the Devils' Achilles' heel, the position where the losses in the past five years of Scott Stevens, Scott Niedermayer and Brian Rafalski would finally hit a załoga built to prevent goals. And then Martin Brodeur went down...

SEATTLE - Move over Mets. You're not the only choking dogs in town. The Jets fell to the Seahawks, 13-3, in a driving snowstorm yesterday to continue their plummet from Super Bowl contender to playoff pretender. For the fourth straight week...

SEATTLE - Apparently the Jets are not ready for primetime. NBC announced that next week's Jets-Dolphins showdown, which lost some of its luster after the Jets' 13-3 loss to the Seahawks yesterday, will not be "flexed" into the 8:15 p.m. slot...

SEATTLE - The snow started falling in thick sheets about 15 minutes before kickoff, kept falling, kept trying to do everyone a solid and make it virtually impossible to watch the Jets spit up all over themselves at Qwest Field. No such luck...

BOSTON - The Knicks didn't need to brave a snowstorm to discover they can't defend the NBA champions. They were just annoying gnats in the way of more Celtic history. Quentin Richardson, who had antagonized the Celtics with inflammatory remarks...

In a previous column, Mike Freeman mentioned that Florida's Urban Meyer might head to the NFL sooner rather than later. Well, this didn't sit well with Gators fans, but Mike's Malicious Mail also received props for his anti-Michael Vick comments.

When snow angels become a flagging offense in the NFL, the league has gone too far. There are garbage celebrations, and harmless ones, Mike Freeman says. Wes Welker's snow frolic was harmless.

The game was slipping away and with it perhaps the Giants' season. They were going the wrong way. They had fallen and it appeared they could not get up. But they did. One sawanna at a time, they got back into a game that tested their resolve, their...

It's not smart to początek getting cute with Tom Coughlin, unless you are a 42-year old punter who just nailed an absolutely perfect kick. That's what happened in the fourth quarter of the Giants' wild 34-28 overtime victory over the Panthers last...

THE Road to Tampa and the Super Bowl runs through East Rutherford now, and the Giants are quite lucky that Derrick Ward will be running on it. Ward put on a performance for the ages, not unlike the one Tiki Barber came up with when he rumbled...

THE NFC championship game can be at Giants Stadium, and if turns out the Panthers are coming back for it, what a preview these two teams put on last night. Back and forth the Giants and Carolina went at each other like the two best teams in the...

BOSTON - It is the Knicks' worst nightmare. No, not their blowout loss last night to the Celtics, but the notion LeBron James could sign a contract extension with the Cavs this summer, taking him off the free-agent sklep wielkopowierzchniowy in 2010. James told...

The game was slipping away and with it perhaps the Giants' season. They were going the wrong way. They had fallen and it appeared they could not get up. But they did. One sawanna at a time, they got back into a game that tested their resolve, their...

The Giants came into one of their biggest regular-season games of the past 15 years off back-to-back losses, and rushing performances that Derrick Ward called disgraceful. Their beleaguered offensive line was challenged by their coaches and...

Car. 7 14 0 7 0 - 28 Giants 3 10 7 8 6 - 34 First Quarter Giants: FG Carney 32, 9:34. Drive: 9 plays, 61 yards, 5:26. Key play: Manning 40 pass to Hixon on 3rd-and-6 to Pan thers 18. Giants 3, Carolina 0. Car: Williams 13 run (Kasay kick), 6...