MIAMI - Devin Harris sat a second straight game with a sprained left ankle here last night and with the distinct possibility that he may sit a third, the Nets are exploring the possibility of adding a third point guard. For now, Keyon Dooling is...

ERIC Mangini was his typical dour self yesterday, acting as if the Jets' showdown with the Patriots Thursday night in Foxborough was just another game. There's no time for any extra emotion, not with the short work week ahead. "There's not much...

SAN ANTONIO - Times have been so bleak for the Knicks the past four seasons, the club has achieved a four-game winning streak just once. That came during Larry Brown's season of 2004-05. Tonight at the AT&T Center, the 4-2 Knicks go for four...

EVEN before the Giants hired Tom Coughlin, at a time when the Jim Fassel era was ending, the late, great Wellington Mara was asked for his Big Blue Dream Team. "I'd like to have a ekipa that says, 'Buckle up your chin straps, pally, we're going...

Whatever celebration and euphoria came out of the Jets' record-breaking 47-3 thrashing of the Rams on Sunday is officially over. It's Patriots week, and it's a short one. The 6-3 Jets have won five of their last six games and there's a growing...

Islanders center Mike Comrie had hoped to thrive under new head coach Scott Gordon and regain the form that made him a 30-goal scorer earlier in his career. But the early part of the season has not gone the way Comrie would have wanted it. He has...

In what can only be described as a bizarre move with curious timing, the Jets signed cornerback Ty Law today, according to the NFL Network. Not only did the NFL Network report the news, it also quoted Law, who claimed he'll be playing against the...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Adalius Thomas is the latest Patriots starter who might miss time after the linebacker suffered what could be a long-term arm injury. Thomas didn't return after leaving the Patriots 20-10 win over the Bills midway through the...

Evan Longoria won the American League Rookie of the Year award today by unanimous vote, and Geovany Soto ran away with the NL honor. Following a season of breakthroughs for the AL champion Rays, Longoria became the first Tampa Bay player to win a...

In nine years of existence, the Long Island Ducks have become a haven for former major-league players trying to revitalize their playing career. Now a Hall of Famer is going to try to forge his way into the majors as a manager. Gary Carter was...

PHILADELPHIA - Cross off the Eagles as a potential threat to the Giants' NFC East title hopes. The Giants are not the Mets, and the Eagles are not the Phillies. MORE: Giants Shut Down Elusive Westbrook GREENBERG: Jacobs Rebounds After Lost...

PHILADELPHIA - With these Road Warrior Giants, noga is a game of bone-crunching yards on the ground that saps the will of the enemy, and sometimes, when your quarterback has poise and presence of mind and feet and a heads-up head coach who...

PHILADELPHIA - Because the Giants did not get a single sack of Donovan McNabb last night, it could have led to a key NFC East loss. Though the players on the defensive część przednia were not satisfied with not being able to drop McNabb, they were ecstatic...

PHILADELPHIA - The Giants, two games on the Eagles in the NFC East standings, were leading 17-7 midway through the second quarter, and dominating on both lines. Therefore, it didn't seem like such a huge leap of faith to Brandon Jacobs that they...

PHILADELPHIA - There were plenty of reasons why the Giants should have rolled to a decisive victory over the rival Eagles last night at Lincoln Financial Field and a load of reasons why they could have blown a game they often dominated. It...

A look back at the Giants 36-31 victory over the Eagles: PLAY OF THE GAME With 6:25 remaining in the third quarter and the Giants trailing 24-20, Eli Manning found tight end Kevin Boss on a 17-yard completion to the Eagles' 3-yard line, but even...

So Brandon Marshall wanted to celebrate unity after Barack Obama's election victory. That's fine, but maybe the domestic-violence-inclined Marshall isn't the best person to spread this message, Mike Freeman says.

Brett Favre approached rookie tight end Dustin Keller on the sideline yesterday and said, "Man, I wish I had you when I was younger." Keller was Favre's go-to man yesterday, catching six passes for a career-high 107 yards and a touchdown in the...

Last week's game was terrific: a huge, confidence-forging road victory against the Bills that had the possibility of setting a course for the rest of the season for the Jets. Yesterday was even better: a complete and dominant 47-3 annihilation...

Thomas Jones' 20-yard burst on the game's first play from scrimmage was the tone-setter for the Jets' 47-3 rout of St. Louis. But it was his career-high third touchdown run - a churning, pounding carry that dragged Rams lineman Adam Carriker into...

CAN we please okazja with the com parisons between Aaron Voros and Sean Avery? For better or worse, there are few similarities between the players beyond their shared willingness to go to the część przednia of the net and absorb the punishment necessary to be...

It may be an exercise in futility, given their decimated ranks, but if the Devils are going to deal for a big-name goalie to hold the fortyfikacja when their wounded legia returns, they need to move promptly, or they might as well wait for Martin Brodeur...

THIS was everything the Jets could have asked for, and now they have before them everything they possibly could have hoped for. The Rams were the perfect patsies yesterday, a fiasco of a noga załoga that played down to every expectation. There...

Eddy Curry's right knee has become so painful, he needed a cortisone shot Friday. It's a troubling development in the Knicks' bid to trade their outcast 6-foot-11 center. Curry's bruised knee has him out indefinitely. He was inactive during the...

There is a new energy on the Garden court and in the Garden stands. Knicks fans are dying for a winner and the standing ovation with which the Madison Square Garden crowd showered coach Mike D'Antoni's drużyna in the final seconds of yesterday's...