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Thanksgiving week could make or break Giants’ year

It’s a short week with a lot to prove for a Giants team that’s trying to make this Thanksgiving dinner a celebration rather than a last supper for their playoff hopes. On Sunday, the Giants come off their bye week and take on the Falcons in hopes of ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Giants,  Daryl Johnston,  Bill Sheridan

Rangers adapt to key injuries

It may not be acknowledged, and the coach may not admit it, but the Rangers have played a different style of hockey since Chris Drury and Brandon Dubinsky went down with injuries on Nov. 7 in Calgary. Since then, with the team's lack of depth up the ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Drury,  Brandon Dubinsky,  New York Rangers,  John Tortorella,  Tom Renney

Excuses out door as St. John's opens season

In the last two seasons, St. John's coach Norm Roberts has had a number of key phrases at his disposal when asked about his disappointing team: It was young; there were injuries; there was no depth off the bench. Not that Roberts ever used any of those ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anthony Mason

For decade, Patriots-Colts showdown the best NFL has to offer

With every decade that passes in the NFL, there emerges a rivalry that defines the era. Just so happens that the rivalry currently compelling every NFL observer may trump them all. The Patriots and Colts will meet again Sunday night for the seventh ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NFL,  Peyton Manning,  Al Michaels,  Tom Brady,  Tony Dungy

New Net struggling mighti-Lee

There was Courtney Lee on the practice court yesterday, twenty minutes after everyone else on his team left: one dribble, jumper, one dribble, jumper. Emblematic of the Nets' 0-5 start, Lee is struggling to find his stride, shooting 30.6 percent from ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New Jersey Nets,  Courtney Lee,  Devin Harris,  Yi Jianlian,  Keyon Dooling

Beacon girls defeat LaGuardia, 6-0

What sounded like a normal comment coming from the bench of a high school girls soccer team came off imminently strange this morning. The perpetually loose LaGuardia Athletics, with pop tunes queued on their iPod, were getting ready for their PSAL ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Adams

UFL makes its Gotham debut

When the New York Sentinels took the field last night at Giants Stadium, the assumed cheers from the scores of United Football League fans in the stands went unheard because of the pyrotechnics blasting off behind the goal posts. It was a stark ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Giants,  Dennis Green,  United Football League,  Shane Boyd,  Cory Ross

Rangers' Higgins out to end 0-fer

If, before the Rangers' season started, there had been a comparison between Chris Higgins and Enver Lisin that said 10 games into the year one would be scoreless and the other would have earned his way onto the team's top line, the answer to "Who's who? ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Chris Higgins (footballer),  Marian Gaborik,  John Tortorella,  Brandon Dubinsky,  Ryan Callahan

The Rangers’ blueline enigma

The Rangers’ situation on defense right now might be one of the weirdest personnel-to-performance relationships the NHL has seen in ages. Their two most consistent players are both rookies, a 19- and 25-year-old with zero previous NHL experience; the ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Del Zotto,  New York Rangers,  Marc Staal,  Dan Girardi,  Wade Redden

Ranger pest likely to face Ducks

The Rangers are a team that has shown a lot of grit in the first four games of the season, and that intensity level is only going to spike when Sean Avery enters the lineup today at the Garden against the Ducks. Avery, who has been sidelined since the ...

From BRETT CYRGALIS, New York Post,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sean Avery,  Aaron Voros,  John Tortorella,  Donald Brashear,  New York Rangers

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