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The Giants and Jets claim their new stadium will justify the price ...

BACK TO EARTH?

With the status of Brandon "Earth" Jacobs up in the air ...

THE NEW BOSS

According to Major League Baseball, Hal Steinbrenner is ...

ODD COUPLE

Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather Sr. may not seem like ...

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TEAM TRACKER | yankees

MUSSINA TELLS YANKS HE'S RETIRING

Mike Mussina has informed the Yankees his borderline Hall of Fame career is over. According to several team employees the...

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TEAM TRACKER | mets

MURPHY'S KNEE WORRIES METS

This doesn't sound good. Mets left fielder and rising star Daniel Murphy was flown back to New York from the Arizona Fall...

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TEAM TRACKER | giants

CARDS' DYNAMIC DUO WON'T CATCH BIG BLUE OFF-GUARD

Sam Madison has spent a dozen years in the NFL tracking and chasing receivers, so he knows a thing or two about the best...

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TEAM TRACKER | jets

JENKINS AND MAWAE READY TO BUTT HEADS

If you like pretty football, stay away from Sunday's Jets-Titans game. If finesse is your thing, go to the ballet. This...

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TEAM TRACKER | knicks

SORE LOSER KNICKS MUST WIN IN BOSTON

NOW that Quentin Richardson and Zach Randolph are yapping again about the world-champion Celtics, it is time the Knicks' two...

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TEAM TRACKER | nets

YI'S NECK STRAIN MIGHT HURT NETS

As if their listless loss to LeBron James & Co. wasn't bad enough, Yi Jianlian strained his neck yesterday in practice...

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TEAM TRACKER | rangers

RANGERS HAVE TEAM MEETING AFTER ROUT

The Rangers fell off the edge on which they had been living, and they fell with a thud. When last night's embarrassment of...

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TEAM TRACKER | devils

ROLSTON'S RETURN REMAINS A MYSTERY

It will be five weeks tonight since Brian Rolston launched this plague of Devils injuries by spraining - badly, he says - his...

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TEAM TRACKER | islanders

'MAC' SAVES ISLES' WIN STREAK

No one is ready to anoint Joey MacDonald as the Islanders' goalie of the future, but he is making the team miss the...

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TEAM TRACKER | liberty

SHOCK-ING PLAYOFF END FOR LIBERTY

YPSILANTI, Mich. - Janel McCarville called it "progress." It still amounted to another Liberty playoff ouster short...

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Hardball

3 UP: The Mike Mussina Editi...

Posted: November 20, 2008 08:57:55 am | Comments: 8

I wrote a column in today's Post about Mike Mussina and his Hall of Fame case. I pointed out that Mussina's candidacy should receive extra consideration because of the perception that he pitched clean in a steroid era, did it......

Yankees

THE MIKE MUSSINA EDITION

Posted: November 20, 2008 09:01:13 am | Comments: 0

FROM JOEL SHERMAN I wrote a column in today's Post about Mike Mussina and his Hall of Fame case. I pointed out that Mussina's candidacy should receive extra consideration because of the perception that he pitched clean in a steroid......

Mets

Carp added to 40-man roster

Posted: November 20, 2008 05:07:17 pm | Comments: 2

The Mets elevated first baseman Mike Carp to their 40-man roster today, increasing said roster to 34 players. Carp, 22, hit .299 with 17 homers and 72 RBIs in 134 games for Double-A Binghamton en route to being named an......

Giants

Jacobs practices, Burress do...

Posted: November 20, 2008 03:57:08 pm | Comments: 0

Injured Giants Brandon Jacobs, Aaron Ross and Chase Blackburn all practiced today, but Plaxico Burress did not. Tom Coughlin said Burress has an injured hamstring that popped up "Just now. Overnight and into today." Asked if Burress is going to......

Jets

Haynesworth a big challenge

Posted: November 20, 2008 01:32:40 pm | Comments: 1

As the Jets prepare to face the unbeaten Titans on Sunday one man looms larger than the rest, figuratively and literally. Albert Haynesworth has been a force for the Titans this season, and the Jets success offensively depends largely on......

Knicks

Buck shot (update)

Posted: November 20, 2008 11:38:40 am | Comments: 39

By MARC BERMAN Mike D'Antoni says often he just wants to see improvement as the season goes on. So tomorrow night in Milwaukee, the Knicks coach will get a real evaluation. The 94-86 loss to Milwaukee at the Garden was......

Nets

Sean's Lament

Posted: November 18, 2008 01:52:42 pm | Comments: 4

By FRED KERBER While Ryan Anderson shows just how much he belongs to stay in the rotation, one other guy who got a chance through injury, Sean Williams, keeps an eye over his shoulder. Williams believes he'll sit again when......

Rangers

A plea for non-violence

Posted: November 18, 2008 04:16:05 pm | Comments: 10

By BRETT CYRGALIS This is a plea to all Rangers fans. It's a plea to realize how much impact you have on the game and how much impact a gang-up mentality within a fan base can affect the players. Specifically,......

NHL

Blues Dropping Like Flies

Posted: November 18, 2008 07:24:49 pm | Comments: 0

The Blues are dropping like flies - on the ice and in the standings. The latest casualty is leading scorer Andy McDonald, who went down with a broken leg and is expected to miss at least two months after......

George Willis

Hatton-Floyd Sr.: Boxing's O...

Posted: November 20, 2008 11:04:37 am | Comments: 0

Working with Floyd Mayweather Sr. has given Ricky Hatton renewed confidence going against Paulie Malignaggi.......

Jay Greenberg

Aging Gracefully

Posted: November 20, 2008 10:50:39 am | Comments: 0

 A door closes, another opens and who is standing in one of them but a 10-0 Kerry Collins, ready for a showdown with a first-place Brett Favre who announced eight months ago he didn't want to play anymore.  The Iron......

Where's Kernan?

OLD SCHOOL PHILS

Posted: October 30, 2008 09:28:39 am | Comments: 3

There is a lesson to be learned with the Phillies making like Rocky. Old School works. Toughness works. Pat Gillick, a GM who does not try to reinvent the wheel like so many younger GMs, built a championship team......

Soccer

Landon Donovan loan done dea...

Posted: November 20, 2008 08:51:27 pm | Comments: 0

By BRIAN LEWIS Landon Donovan is finally trying his hand at Europe again. That training stint (wink, wink) with Bayern Munich has now officially ended the way we all knew it would, with Donovan going to the Bundesliga giants......

Minor Leagues

Mets prospects wrap up HWL s...

Posted: November 17, 2008 10:30:06 pm | Comments: 0

The Hawaiian Winter League has wrapped up its 2008 season, and several Mets prospects are headed back to the mainland after playing for the Honolulu Sharks.......

NYP TV Sports

Vitale quiet so he can talk

Posted: November 19, 2008 05:34:06 pm | Comments: 0

AP If anything could motivate Dick Vitale to talk less, it's the fear of no longer being able to gab for a living. The garrulous ESPN college basketball announcer, who missed more than two months last season after throat surgery,......

Fantasy Tracker

Posted: October 18, 2008 03:04:46 am | Comments: 0

It's more serious than a broken pinkie promise in grade school. It's more popular than the pinkie-ring craze. It's more annoying than "Pinky & the Brain." For goodness sakes, we wish someone would just give Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo a......

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By JAY GREENBERG

10-0 TITANS FLY UNDER THE RADAR

BRETT Favre never has been 10-0, actually no better than 4-0 and just twice, the last time on the way to 10-1 in 2007. But he has been a...

By MIKE VACCARO

COUGHLIN MAKES SURE SUCCESS DOESN'T GO TO GIANTS' HEADS

THERE is, in an odd way, something comforting about the answers Tom Coughlin still gives, something reassuring about the plain, innocuous...

By JOEL SHERMAN

COOPERSTOWN VOTE WILL BE A HALLUVA DECISION

THIS was back in spring training, back when Mike Mussina was still lugging around the 5.15 ERA from the season before and all the doubt...

By MARC BERMAN

SORE LOSER KNICKS MUST WIN IN BOSTON

NOW that Quentin Richardson and Zach Randolph are yapping again about the world-champion Celtics, it is time the Knicks' two tough...

By TIM SULLIVAN

10-0 RAIDERS? SOONERS WILL GIVE 'EM 'L'

THEY'VE been out of the head lines since Oct. 11. They were the chic team before that, the lead to everyone's story, the No. 1...

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