At least Brooklyn's Sebastian Telfair will be allowed into the building tonight. Stephon Marbury has lost his team. Telfair has just lost his starting point-guard job, not to mention a lot of games. Things have been better for Telfair, who...

Nate Robinson got a gift on Christmas Day, invited again to compete in the Slam-Dunk competition during February's All-Star Weekend as a former champion. As the Knicks embark tonight on their post-Christmas schedule after a four-day holiday...

Terrell Thomas nearly had an interception of Jake Delhomme last Sunday night that might have been run back for a touchdown, but the Giants cornerback didn't expect the ball to be thrown his way and it glanced off his hands. Rather than view it as...

THE Giants got back on the Super Bowl path with a win last week over the Panthers. Fox analyst Howie Long talked with The Post's Justin Terranova about what it will take for Big Blue to stay there. Q: Should the Giants play their starters on...

AS the quiet of the close of the regular season soon gives way to the storm of the opening of the playoffs, the Giants are preparing a greater gift for their fans after already presenting them the greatest gift of all. Nothing can compare with...

ATTENTION all of you Jets fans who want Eric Mangini cleaning out his office Monday morning. There's one thing you need to do this Sunday: Cheer for Chad. That's right. Go to your closet Sunday morning, dig through the sweaters and dress shirts...

If the Jets beat the Dolphins on Sunday and still don't make the playoffs, the Brett Favre experiment will be a failure. If Chad Pennington pan into the Meadowlands and beats his former załoga to win the AFC East, trading for Favre and releasing...

REGARDING the Rangers: It is unfathomable that Petr Prucha cannot get a chance to play for this team. If Tom Renney doesn't believe that Prucha is a more viable option on either wing for Brandon Dubinsky than Aaron Voros or Fred Sjostrom, then...

The Devils enter tonight's contest against the Penguins with a 7-4-1 record versus divisional opponents this season, including wins in each of the past four such games. That is a far cry from the poor record the zespół posted last year against...

David Carr's father-in-law is a passionate Bears fan named Scott Cross, and Carr figures if he can help the Giants beat the Vikings on Sunday, "I don't have to buy him anything" for Christmas." That Carr enters in the discussion is a sign of...

DAVIE, Fla. - Bill Parcells is protective of the NFL turnover record his 1990 Giants set en route to winning the Super Bowl. Parcells was the head coach when the Giants had only 14 turnovers, the lowest regular-season total in league history...

Tom Coughlin scored big with his players, as for the first time he gave them off on Christmas Day. He said it was not because they had already clinched the No. 1 seed in the NFC but rather because he was able to arrange a schedule in which the...

Teams interested in interviewing defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo about a head-coaching job last season could not speak with him during the bye-week window set aside for such conversations. The reason? The Giants did not have a bye in the...

NO one should be surprised that Brett Favre's arm/shoulder/body is breaking down 10 months from 40 as the Jets, 40 years from Super Bowl III, break down around him. There should be no sympathy for the aging gunslinger now, just as there was no...

Eric Mangini did not exactly deliver a ringing endorsement of his defensive coordinator yesterday. When asked if he was happy with the job Bob Sutton has done, Mangini failed to give a straight answer. "Yeah, I think that we all can do a lot...

Maybe there is an explanation to Brett Favre's erratic play over the last month. The Jets quarterback revealed yesterday he believes his shoulder may be injured. "During the course of the year, there were numerous times where I had been asked...

Mark Teixeira almost certainly is George Steinbrenner's kind of guy. Though Steinbrenner didn't have a role in the Yankees' pursuit of the talented first baseman, if you venture into the Boss' laboratory deep beneath his Tampa estate, you might...

Andy Pettitte could be headed toward a delay-of-game penalty that ends his Yankees' career. In the aftermath of the ekipa reaching agreement with Mark Teixeira on a bombshell, $180 million contract, a Yankees official revealed yesterday it's...

Considering how Brian Rolston's season has gone so far, it's no surprise his resolution for 2009 is a simple one. "I'm looking at (just) getting into the new year," he said after Tuesday's 2-0 loss to the Bruins at Prudential Center. Besides...

WE know what the Rangers look like today after selecting Hugh Jessiman 12th overall in the 2003 Entry Draft instead of, say, Dustin Brown (13th), Zach Parise (17th), Ryan Getzlaf (19th), Brent Burns (20th) or Mike Richards (24th). We do not...

The Nets have been given the day off for Christmas. As for their fans, well, they received their gift Tuesday night. After losing six of their past eight games, including an embarrassing 23-point defeat to Houston at home on Monday, the Nets...

Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington denies his return to the Meadowlands is about retribution or redemption or reliving the past, even if he was cast aside by the Jets like a leaky football. Instead he says the game's solely about the future...

There were many reasons for the Yankees to spend $180 million on first baseman Mark Teixeira on Tuesday. 1. In my column in today's Post, I wrote about how similar this offseason was for the Yanks compared to the 2004-05 offseason. That year they...

With every yard Derrick Ward gains Sunday against the Vikings, he moves closer to teaming with Brandon Jacobs for a rare accomplishment and at the same time reduces the chances of remaining teammates with Jacobs following this season.That's the...

The Vikings had a chance to clinch the NFC North against the Falcons last week before the defending Super Bowl champions and this year's NFC top seed came into the Metrodome. But they fumbled that chance away, seven fumbles to be exact (three that...