With the last-place Islanders clearly in rebuilding mode, Doug Weight would seem to be a logical asset for the załoga to parlay into getting younger. The resurgent Weight leads the Isles in points and has played better than he had in recent years...

Bill Cowher is on the top of the Jets list, but he is not the only one on it. The Jets will meet with Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo on Saturday, according to a person familiar with the coaching search. The Jets are also expected...

Bill Cowher wants control and the Jets might be willing to give it to him. A Jets source shot down a report that Cowher and the Jets talks were off because Cowher wanted to name his personnel director. The zespół source said the no formal...

Jets players' cell phones began ringing shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday morning with the nowość Eric Mangini no longer was their coach. Four hours later Mangini stood before them to wish them luck and say goodbye in a zespół meeting one player called...

IT had been 12 years since the Jets were allowed to fire a head coach; Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick, Al Groh and Herman Edwards all walked away, for various reasons, to various degrees of success. Eric Mangini's walk came on a gangplank, a day...

The Jets threw the first bouquets of the offseason at Brett Favre yesterday. Let the wooing begin. Team owner Woody Johnson and general manager Mike Tannenbaum said they would like the 39-year-old quarterback to return next season during the...

ON the day they whacked Eric Mangini, Jets owner Woody Johnson and GM Mike Tannenbaum were talking about wanting Brett Favre back, even before they make Bill Cowher an offer he can't refuse, even before they interview any other candidate for the...

There was that six-day span in November when we watched Brett Favre and coach Eric Mangini lock in a long, sweet embrace on the field after surviving the Patriots in overtime in Foxborough, when we listened to Favre tell us that the 2008 Jets were...

The Eric Mangini Era came to a swift and sudden end yesterday when the Jets fired their head coach. The move came just hours after the Jets suffered a season-ending 24-17 loss to the Dolphins that completed a five-week collapse in which they...

It sounds like Mike D'Antoni wants Al Harrington to be a little more like Jose Reyes. The Knicks coach shook up his lineup in Sunday's loss to the Nuggets, with one of his interesting moves being his use of the struggling Harrington. He took...

There are times when Steve Spagnuolo looks and sounds almost sheepish at the praise he receives and the attention that is sure to come his way. It already has started for the Giants defensive coordinator, who is the hottest assistant coach in the...

What kind of week will this be for the Giants? Just listen to Eli Manning and judge for yourselves. "It's an exciting time to be a part of this," he said yesterday. "It will be fun for me this koniec tygodnia to sit and watch all these playoff games, my...

Longtime Jets season-ticket holder David Levy is so disgusted with the team's late-season collapse that he said he has attended his last game. Levy, of Belleville, N.J., isn't only refusing to shell out $10,000 in "personal seat license" fees...

In a results-oriented business, the result was just about all that mattered last night to a Rangers' załoga enmeshed in a midseason crisis of confidence. And so when it ended with the Garden scoreboard showing Rangers 5 and the Islanders 4, the...

OK, enough. This homecourt futility is getting ridiculous. Here were the Bulls, who had lost seven straight games on the road, who were without their third best scorer and their leading rebounder, who were four games under .500 and who bricked...

The Nets essentially said goodbye to two of their recent first-round picks yesterday. They assigned 2007 first-round pick Sean Williams to Colorado of the D-League to try get him some playing time and help him become familiar with different...

The Rangers had no response to yesterday's report out of Russia that charged that Alexei Cherepanov had been taking performance-enhancing drugs before his death on Oct. 13. A federal commission issued a statement claiming that an analysis of...

This time, Rick DiPietro's comeback lasted one game. The oft-injured goalie was forced to sit out last night's 5-4 loss to the Rangers at the Garden because of a strained groin, calling into question the decision to have him play against Toronto...

There's probably a better chance of Cleon Jones playing for the Mets next season than Andruw Jones. Although an ESPN report last night indicated the Mets and Dodgers were in trade discussions that could potentially make Jones the Mets' new right...

The Eric Mangini era is over. Acting in a sudden and swift fashion, the Jets fired their head coach hours after Sunday's season-ending 24-17 loss to the Dolphins. Jets owner Woody Johnson and general manager Mike Tannenbaum announced the decision...

"I appreciate the opportunity that Woody and Mike gave me for the past three years as the head coach of the New York Jets. The organization has terrific people and I wish the Jets nothing but success. The time and effort invested by the coaches...

Las Vegas sports books favor the Giants over the 11 other teams in the NFL playoffs to win the Super Bowl, giving 2-to-1 odds on the NFC's No. 1 seed to repeat as champions. The Tennessee Titans are the favorite among AFC teams to win a title at...

Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov took performance-enhancing drugs for several months before he died during a Russian league game in October, investigators said Monday. Investigators added that during his last year the 19-year-old player suffered...

Weep not for Eric Mangini, who gets a lovely $2.5 million parting gift for turning the Jets into a paranoid police state the past three years. No, if you are a Jets fan you have to początek worrying about yourself, and about your futbol team, and...

Cool under pressure, that's Joe Flacco. The Jaguars tried blitzing the rookie QB every which way, but he still beats them back. Mike Freeman says Ravens fans are excited, and he understands why.