ROONEY Mara is an up-and-coming tal ent, much like the up-and-coming, talented players her father Chris has helped bring to the Giants as vice president of player evaluation. Rooney is an actress. Two of her movies are expected to be in the...

IRVING, Texas - The Giants could take the field tonight at Texas Stadium knowing they already have clinched a bye in the first round of the playoffs. If the Vikings lose to the Cardinals and the Falcons lose to the Buccaneers, the Giants are...

IRVING, Texas - The Giants can't clinch the No. 1 seed tonight against the Cowboys. But here's what they can do, and will want to do: witness The Fall of the Romo Empire once again. The Giants are a futbol team, and the best in the world. The...

I FEEL uncomfortable defending the Yankees. It is unpleasant to find myself on the same side as Hank Steinbrenner. It is distasteful to be making a case for why the organization with the biggest wallet uses it. But listening to one baseball...

The wstępny projekt is for CC Sabathia to arrive in town tomorrow night, take a physical Tuesday and possibly be introduced as the Yankees' $161 million savior by Wednesday. Expect A.J. Burnett to follow after his $82.5 million deal is official. According...

CHICAGO - The smart money said Vince Carter would respond from his 0-of-13 water torture shooting nightmare. He did. But it didn't help the Nets snap out of their latest losing funk. Carter bounced back from the worst shooting night of his...

"Just OK," in Brent Sutter's evaluation, wasn't good enough. Spoiling Kevin Weekes' first game since Nov. 21, the Devils' emotion wasn't there, and neither was victory, a night after their wild triumph over the Rangers. Playing their third in...

No one is going to quibble about the quality of this Rangers' victory. No one is going to suggest that a shootout triumph is less equal than any other. No one is going to recommend that the Blueshirts throw these two points back into the bin...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Good days or bad, the Blue Jackets just don't suit the Islanders. Mired in a season-worst losing streak, the Isles lost 3-1 last night to the Jackets, who improved to 7-2-1 against the Isles since joining the NHL in 2000-01...

Eddie Guardado changed J.J. Putz's splitter grip a few springs ago when they were teammates in Seattle, and Guardado says Putz really emerged after that. According to Guardado, Putz's success was inevitable. "J.J. was bound to happen," Guardado...

* Let's see, the Yankees are lopping off $88 million from their 2008 payroll in time for the 2009 season. They've signed CC Sabathia for $161 million for seven years, or $23M per year. They signed A.J. Burnett for $82.5 million for five years, or...

Francisco Rodriguez didn't waste any time jumping into the middle of the Mets-Phillies rivalry. The Mets' new $37 million closer shrugged off the Mets' September collapses the past two seasons and the Phillies' freshly minted World Series crown...

By tomorrow, David Clowney could have a new role with the Jets. The 23-year-old receiver is likely to make his NFL debut against the Bills, in place of Brad Smith, who remains doubtful with a head injury. But it hardly will be the most...

There's a school of thought in the NFL this time of year that when measuring incentive, always go with teams fighting to squeeze into the playoffs over teams already in and seeking to better position for a lengthy postseason stay. History says...

What was apparent all week became fact yesterday when coach Tom Coughlin officially declared running back Brandon Jacobs out for tomorrow night's game against the Cowboys at Texas Stadium. "He hasn't practiced all week," Coughlin said, "so we...

The Suns grew even more distant from the Mike D'Antoni era on Wednesday when the club traded the Knicks coach's favorite two Suns players not named Steve Nash. When D'Antoni and his two former Suns assistants, Phil Weber and Dan D'Antoni, kraj związkowy on...

The Knicks are in the midst of five straight games on the road, having split the first two. Tonight they can establish the tone for the final three, says David Lee. Up first on the Knicks' West Coast slate are the Kings, followed by coach Mike...

Nets rookie Ryan Anderson didn't know what to expect from Vince Carter. But it wasn't this. Anderson expected something more along the lines of how seniors treat freshmen. You know, like dirt. Instead, Anderson found an eight-time All-Star willing...

BRANDON Dubinsky, a young man in a hurry, has hit a speed bump that might be accompanied by a traffic warning sign featuring the universal circle containing a diagonal line drawn through the number 68. Honestly, it's no mystery why the kid from...

The Islanders are in last place, most of their better young players have battled injuries or ineffectiveness, and veterans such as Doug Weight and Bill Guerin lead the way in scoring. So much for the youth movement, at least for this year. Well, on...

Brent Sutter may have to turn in his NHL alumni card. Unlike old-timers who walked two miles to school, uphill each way, the New Jersey coach says the feat of scoring 100 points in a season - never accomplished by a Devil - is harder now than when...

There's a w modzie new addition to David Wright's Flatiron District condo - a saltwater fish czołg that David and his mom, Elisa, set up last weekend. There's also going to be a new addition to his game next spring. Wright is working hard this offseason...

Johnny Damon and his Yankees teammates flailed hopelessly at A.J. Burnett's high-octane fastball and muscular curveball and wondered, "What if he was on our side?" The wondering is over. Burnett, 32 early next month, has agreed to a five-year, $82...

With the acquisitions of CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, two of the top free-agent pitchers on the market, the Yankees significantly bolstered their rotation, and a pitcher in their 2008 rotation is excited about the moves. "It is great. It's going...

Mets fans won't have Scott Schoeneweis to kick around anymore. Continuing its offseason bullpen overhaul, the club traded the embattled left-hander and cash considerations to the Diamondbacks last night for righty reliever Connor Robertson...