Desperate for an infusion, the Knicks got a 300-plus pound addition yesterday. Eddy Curry made his return to practice and hopes to make his season debut during the Knicks' four-game Southwestern odlot beginning Tuesday in Oklahoma City. Losers of...

THERE remains one final major move for the Yankees to make. Same goes for the Mets. The Yankees still have a hole in their rotation. This has been an incredibly prosperous offseason for the Yankees and GM Brian Cashman with the free-agent...

HEAL thyself. That was the decree for the Giants this past week. They concluded their regular season with too many disturbing trends and lapses and breakdowns that, if not corrected, will severely compromise their chances of becoming the first...

MIAMI - The Nets played the entire game without Devin Harris, who sat out with a sore right hamstring that he injured Friday. For most of the game, it was an even playing field because the Heat essentially were going without Dwyane Wade, who was...

MIAMI - Devin Harris was a scratch for the Nets here during last night's 101-96 overtime loss to the Heat because of a sore right hamstring. Keyon Dooling missed a couple games recently with a sore right hip and his absence was compounded when...

WASHINGTON-You can look it up in the NHL dictionary. Right there, under the term "specialty teams," is the antonym - the 2008-09 Rangers. Another one went down the drain last night, another one that can be pinned on the dreadful power play and...

This is very serious business for John Madden, and there's very little the Devils' alternate captain can do about it. The 2001 Selke Trophy winner has seen his job vanish this season, his long-time station checking the opponents' top line. His...

WASHINGTON - You walk into the Garden and there's No. 11. You walk into the Rangers' practice rink and there's No. 11. There's No. 11, all right, on the banners hanging from the ceiling of the Garden and on a wall of the practice rink signifying...

* We all knew going in that with this 39-year-old "Brett Favre experiment," that the wheels could fall off the Jets' wagon at any time. And lo and behold, that's just what happened. After the high point of the season, the Jets trashing the Titans...

The Post's Steve Serby chatted this past week with the Rangers coach about his hockey life, his 9-11 experience, the prospects of winning the Stanley Cup in New York, and more: Q: Your Stanley Cup dream? A: My wife's father passed away in 1981 from...

Matt Ryan is a rookie. Kurt Warner is a vet. While the Falcons enter the wild-card game as favorites, it's the Cards who laugh last with a 30-24 win. Atlanta is blitz-happy, but Warner makes 'em pay, Mike Freeman says.

Teddy Atlas is one Jet who won't be back next year. The famed boxing trainer and Jets "special assistant" ripped the organization and quarterback Brett Favre yesterday. Atlas, a close friend of Eric Mangini, said the recently fired coach was...

The Oklahoma City Thunder, brandishing a league-worst 4-29 record, aren't in the top 10 in any major statistical category, but their attendance figures are strong for a small-market team. The Thunder, in their first season since the Sonics...

When Boston visits the Garden tomorrow, Stephon Marbury won't be wearing Celtics green. The banished Marbury said he would be "honored" to play for the Celtics, admitted they are on his short list, but denied an ESPN.com report he has made a...

It's one thing to get outclassed by Denver's Carmelo Anthony. It's another to get whipped by Indiana's Jarrett Jack. The Pacers point guard ambushed the Knicks last night, dominating all game, going wild in the final minute and hitting the...

In one game Vince Carter went from goat to hero, from ejected in Detroit to ecstatic in the Swamp. His last-second, left-wing 3-pointer sliced the twine just as the backboard clock lit up, capping the Nets' 93-91 overtime come-from-behind victory...

Don't blow this one, Woody. When Steve Spagnuolo sits down with the Jets today, ekipa owner Woody Johnson has to give the Giants defensive coordinator the hard sell he gave Brett Favre last summer or the hard sell he's given his fans to buy PSLs...

Jets running back Thomas Jones said yesterday his quotes about Brett Favre on Hot 97 FM were "chopped up." In an interview with ESPN's "First Take," Jones said he did not mean to disrespect Favre. "I'll talk to Brett. Everything is modny with me...

BEFORE last night's dis heartening 105-103 loss to the Pacers at the Garden, Mike D'Antoni was asked if he had any New Year's resolutions. "Just get some wins," the Knicks coach said. Considering the Knicks lost for the 13th time in their past...

The playoff debut for Kenny Phillips, Terrell Thomas and Bryan Kehl is next weekend. They're the three most important Giants rookies, and next week's postseason inauguration is the początek of their chance to capture a Super Bowl title, like last...

The scariest player in hockey helped scare the Rangers straight 11 days ago, Alexander Ovechkin keying a Capitals comeback from a 4-0 deficit to a 5-4 overtime victory at the Garden. After having played just twice (1-1) since, after having...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Shane Doan and Olli Jokinen each scored and the Coyotes held on to beat the Islanders 5-4 last night. Doug Weight had a pair of assists for the Islanders to become the eighth American-born player to reach the 1,000-point mark...

These resilient Devils revive regularly, and the longer this survival rozkwit goes, the stronger they will be for it. Last night, their surprising replacement goalie showed his załoga the way even more than they bailed him out. He's still a...

Doesn't anyone smell a plot? Here's one of the most powerful bunch of left wingers in history. They even wear red. The southpaw side is now the strength of the surprising Devils, where they boast Patrik Elias, Zach Parise, now Brian Rolston and...

Kyle Okposo is showing signs of becoming the player the Islanders need him to be if their attempt at rebuilding is ever expected to get off the ground. That wasn't the case not long ago. "I felt he was just happy to be here," coach Scott Gordon...