#10) 2001: The Giants’ NFC Championship Game Rout
It had been a full decade since the Giants had appeared in a Super Bowl, and after missing the playoffs the previous two years, head coach Jim Fassel guaranteed that his 7-4 team (at the time) after two home losses, would make the playoffs. The Giants responded by [...]

Don’t look now, but the New York Knicks are suddenly playing winning basketball.
Yup, after starting the year well on pace to miss the NBA playoffs for a sixth straight year, including a 1-9 beginning (the worst ten-game start in their 64 seasons of existence), en route to a miserable 3-14 record through November, the Knicks, [...]

At 5-0, New York was buzzing. Are the Giants really that good? Could they beat the Saints in New Orleans and be in the driver’s seat for the NFC playoffs to get back to another Super Bowl?
At 5-1, after getting pummeled in New Orleans, the doubts crept in, but there was no huge [...]

Sixteen and zero would have been nice, but it all means nothing unless the Lombardi Trophy is hoisted in February. Ask the Patriots about that in case you’re not convinced. So with the Giants getting beat last Sunday in New Orleans, the world – and their season – did not come to an end. Hardly. [...]

One year after passing for the second most yards (5,069) in an NFL season, only 15 yards behind Hall Of Fame quarterback Dan Marino’s single-season record of 5,084 yards in 1984, New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees is  again poised to take aim at Marino’s record. FRO follows Brees’ prusuit of Marino each week, throughout [...]

After losing defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to the St. Louis Rams over the weekend, Tom Coughlin wasted no time naming his replacement, tabbing linebackers coach Bill Sheridan for the job.
The 50 year-old held that position for the past four seasons and working under Spagnuolo the last two years will allow him to continue the system [...]

FLUSHING, NY – Another year, another collapse and unlike last season, the Mets winter may be much colder as they put the finishing touches on Citi Field.
After the Mets went quietly into the night last year, they – through no work of their own – were able to pretty much hide during the winter months [...]

The mark of an elite football team is beating the teams you’re supposed to beat, we’re not talking about merely winning we’re talking about the football equivalent of pushing the little guy down, kicking sand in their face, and walking off with their girlfriends. Well not only did the Giants humiliate the “little guy” Rams [...]

The pageantry, fanfare, and celebration are now officially done – and now it’s time to get down to business for the reigning champions of the football world. Granted, the task at hand is the lowly Rams, but don’t tell the Giants that.
If there’s anything the Giants have learned in the past year, it’s not to [...]

Ever since the Super Bowl, the rumors flowed about Jeremy Shockey. And now, the speculation has become fact.
Shockey is now a former New York Giant being shipped away to the New Orleans Saints for a second and fifth round pick. Before the draft back in April, the Saints offered the same deal, but the Giants [...]