SEATTLE -- Move over Mets. You're not the only chokers in town. The Jets fell to the Seahawks, 13-3, today to continue their plummet from Super Bowl contender to playoff pretender. For the fourth straight week, Gag Green was terrible -- and this...

Without Martin Brodeur, this has become the Devils' season of discovery, unearthing all manner of nuggets, some long buried, some uncovered for the first time. Scott Clemmensen is one, an eye-opening 11-1-1 in his last 13 starts after this...

Before the Giants stepped on the field tonight they received some good nius regarding their upcoming playoff scenario. Prior to their key NFC showdown against the Panthers, the Giants clinched the No. 2 seed in the NFC without lifting a finger...

If conditions are perfect, then the Cardinals can win. But if you throw any adversity at them it gets ugly, like how Arizona folds and folds again in an ugly 47-7 lose to the Patriots in the snow. Also folding? Its hopes in the playoffs, Mike Freeman says.

GIANTS (-3) over Panthers: Win here buys Big Blue three weeks of pressure-free living, with the NFC home-field advantage in the pocket. Isn't it interesting that New Yorkers lost their final four home games during last year's title run? But...

SEATTLE - Mike Holmgren plans to take a lap around Qwest Field today after his final home game as Seahawks coach. The only question is, will it be a victory lap? If the Jets spoil his home finale, it could be because of his former pupil, Brett...

SEATTLE - OK, first things first: The Jets have been a better piłka nożna zespół this year with Brett Favre as their quarterback than they ever would have been with Chad Pennington. There seems to be a recently uncovered civic ordinance that every...

SEATTLE - A month ago, it looked as if the Jets were going to coast into the playoffs. Instead, they've made it interesting, losing two of their last three games. Still, all the 9-5 Jets have to do is win their final two games to capture the AFC...

The Giants already might have clinched a first-round playoff bye before they sawanna on the field tonight. All they need to claim that prize is for the Falcons to beat the Vikings earlier in the afternoon in Minneapolis. There are high-stakes games...

The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Giants' 24-year-old starting tight end. Q: How often have you watched your 45-yard Super Bowl catch?A: I still haven't sat down and watched the entire game; I've watched the NFL Films thing they did. I'll...

YOU are the New York Giants. The defending world champion New York Giants. Oh, how you love hearing that. It brings back all those memories from a magical season no one saw coming. Even today, you still can hear the cheers exploding out of the...

There's no sense calling what takes place tonight at cold and wet and wintry Giants Stadium a playoff-type game, because both the Giants and Panthers will live for another day. When it żupan to the regular season, though, the stakes could not be...

LOS ANGELES - The good nius regarding six head coaches being fired before Christmas is it still gives those teams plenty of time to ax the interims. No truth whatsoever to Yahoo's Shawn Marion-Wally Szczerbiak/Anderson Varejao trade exclusive...

The Knicks may not get a chance to put their LeBron James projekt into effect. The Knicks shedded salary last month by dealing away Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford to get under the cap for the LeBron sweepstakes in the summer of 2010. But...

Paul Pierce said yesterday that he dislikes no man in the NBA. "You know, we're all brothers," he said. Maybe that Christmas card to Quentin Richardson still is in the mail. Even if Richardson called Pierce out in the Garden hallway last...

J.P Ricciardi moved through several subjects about A.J. Burnett, his former pitcher who left Toronto for The Bronx and $82.5 million of the Steinbrenner family's iron. Ricciardi talked about Burnett changing his mental approach and how good the...

NOW that the Red Sox have frozen their Mark Teixeira assets in the high- stakes poker game with super-agent Scott Boras, it creates an opening for the Yankees. The Yankees are in this game, make no mistake. The Red Sox are not completely out...

The Nets went into the fourth quarter down three. But Dwyane Wade was resting on the Miami bench. This was the time to make a move. They didn't have to search the memory banks too far to remember Wade's destructive ability: 19 of his 33 points in...

Whether or not there is a rzecz with Yi Jianlian's age, the Nets don't seem to care. A report in China that surfaced on the sieć yesterday claimed to have documentation that Yi is 24, and not 21 as he and his passport claim. It is not the...

SAN JOSE - The Rangers had a good odlot to California. It was nearly great. The Rangers peppered Evgeni Nabokov with 17 shots in the third period, but he turned away every one of them to lead the Sharks to a 3-2 win last night. The Rangers...

Pekka Rinne stopped all 23 shots in earning his third shutout of the month, and Vernon Fiddler scored the lone goal as the Predators beat the Islanders 1-0 last night in Nashville, Tenn. The Islanders lost their ninth straight game (0-8-1) and...

They not only survived, the Devils prospered, their plague of injuries becoming a plague on their opponents. And they're all the stronger for it. The players are the biggest heroes, but significant credit must go to coach Brent Sutter, this recent...

The first person in professional baseball to believe in Manny Ramirez was Cleveland Indians scout Joe Delucca, who first saw Ramirez as a 10th grader at Brooklyn's Prospect Park playing in the Youth Service League. Nearly 20 years later, Delucca...

A year ago, Dave Eiland was inching closer to his first season as the Yankees' pitching coach. Included in his rotation were neophytes Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy. Today, Eiland is awaiting his second season and has CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett...

Johnny Damon made recruiting calls to A.J. Burnett. His wife, Michelle, helped out in the CC Sabathia chase by texting CC's wife, Amber, answering questions so that the Northern California-based Sabathia family could feel at home in New York. And...