#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 [...]

Because there is something wrong at the Timex performance center, but it’s not something that people should be surprised about. The Giants have some key injuries most notably on the defense, that are keeping them form gaining the upper hand and beating the teams they play.
Why, you ask? They should be 8-0 or 7-1? I [...]

BRONX, NY – All that is left now for the New York Yankees is counting the days until October. There is also some unfinished business in the final regular season games of 2009 including the individual milestones and achievements that will put a cap on a successful regular season.
Pitcher A. J. Burnett attempted to get [...]

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – The Giants came into yesterday’s opening day match up with several questions still unanswered from this summer’s training camp.  By 8pm Sunday night, few of those questions remained open for discussion. Among the three biggest concerns had to be how the corps of talented but youthful receivers would do without at [...]

The Rex Ryan era in New York has not even begun and he already has to deal with a little controversy. Calvin Pace, one of his starting linebackers, has been suspended for the first four games of the regular season for using a banned substance, which has yet to be identified.
“Calvin Pace of the New [...]

NEWARK, NJ- Scan through the NHL’s postseason media guide and the importance of quality goaltending for championship-caliber teams becomes apparent.
Martin Brodeur has led the Devils to three championships and four finals appearances. But while New Jersey claims a battle-tested netminder, Carolina counters with Cam Ward, who has also taken a team to the top and [...]

NEW YORK – Just when you thought the Rangers were dead, they picked themselves off the ice.
Led by Chris Drury’s two goals, and another great effort by Henrik Lundqvist, the Blueshirts downed the Canadiens 3-1 at Madison Square Garden.
With the win, the Rangers now have 91 points the eighth spot in the playoffs all to [...]

UNIONDALE, NY- Perhaps using the French phrase “la dernière place” sounds nicer than saying the Islanders are in last place. But whether spoken or read in French or English, the results were the same as a battered Islanders squad fell, 5-1, to Montreal at the Nassau Coliseum.
After veterans Saku Koivu and Mathieu Schneider scored in [...]

UNIONDALE, NY– Hide the records and the Islanders and Penguins appear to be very similar in organizational philosophy.
Before the laughter starts, consider that the Penguins play in an arena even older than Nassau Coliseum and depend on the NHL draft instead of big-ticket free agent items to compete. Also consider that both teams fired coaches [...]