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- DEVS FIZZ, THEN FALL
It was a milestone night in Newark for both coaches, although Brent Sutter's was more of a millstone. Florida's Jacques Martin became the 10th coach in NHL history win 500 games, while the Devils lost for the first time after a two-period lead...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- CATCHING FIRE
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Brett Favre wanted Randy Moss. If the Packers beat the Giants tomorrow, the Packers likely will get him - across the field in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3. Nevertheless, they no longer rue the offseason failure to sign Moss, then a...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- COUGHLIN GETS HIS MESSAGE ACROSS
When all the practices and meetings and film work are over and done with, when the flight has taken off and landed, when the Giants finally gather together inside their hotel conference room in Appleton, Wis., Tom Coughlin will take the stage...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- KICKIN' IT COLD SCHOOL
One of the most overlooked areas on any football team - the kicking game - could be a major headache for the Giants tomorrow. Green Bay's frigid Lambeau Field, where the forecast is 4 degrees with a wind chill of minus-8 degrees at kickoff for the...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- WOODEN ANCHOR
GREEN BAY - Tom Coughlin has been this far before, a stop away from the Super Bowl, a step shy of the game's grandest stage. Twice while with Jacksonville, his Jaguars played in AFC Championship games. They lost once on the road. They lost once at...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- GLOVE STORY: ELI PREPARES FOR THE COLD
Eli Manning practiced this week wearing a glove on his left (non-throwing) hand, experimenting with the feel as he prepares for the sub-zero temperatures tomorrow night in Green Bay."The main purpose is securing the snap if it does get cold or the...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- CARSON: BLUE NOT BIG AS '86 CREW
Giants legend Harry Carson thinks this year's team has a good shot at getting to the Super Bowl, but doesn't believe they're up to the standard set by his 1986 championship squad. " '86 was a much stronger team. They had more personalities. The '86...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- GREEN DAY: VEGAS BETTORS BACK THE PACK
The cheeseheads are flooding Las Vegas with Packer money."We just went to 7½ [from 7] an hour ago," Robert Walker, sports book director at the MGM Mirage, told The Post at 6:30 Eastern time last night. The Post's line, set earlier by...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- GHOSTS OF LAMBEAU DON'T SCARE BIG BLUE
THEY took off at 1 this afternoon on their United charter. Destination: Super Bowl, with a stopover in Green Bay. And yesterday, 48 hours from Brett Favre and the ghosts of Vince Lombardi and Bart Starr and Paul Hornung and Ray Nitschke and all the...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- TIME TO PASS HISTORY TEST
All 45 players wearing a Giants uniform will hear the call to arms, but for some, the call resonates just a bit more loudly.The Giants need everyone if they are to upset the Packers tomorrow night in the NFC Championship game at arctic Lambeau Field...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- ISLES DOWN 3 D'S
Islanders' owner Charles Wang said he is pleased his team has won three of its last four and is solidly in the middle of the Eastern Conference playoff race. "I think we're doing a heck of a job here," said Wang, who was at the Nassau Coliseum...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL!
WASHINGTON - Cancel the championship parade and date at the White House. The Knicks carried their season-high three-game winning streak into the nation's capital last night and saw it vanish like Congress in January. The alarming part was the Knick...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- NO EASY ROAD FOR NETS
LOS ANGELES - Look back to November. The Nets took a superb opportunity and somehow twisted it so that playing at home was as enjoyable as a barbecued steel wool sandwich. So they went West and righted themselves with a 3-1 trip. Now, for sanity's...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- RANGERS EYE SURGE OF POWER
In the new whistle-happy NHL, it's not a stretch to say that special teams are at the forefront of Ranger coach Tom Renney's mind. The Rangers are 2-5-1 in their last eight games, mostly by way of careless penalties and an inability to score on the...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST
- BLAKE RALLIES FOR WIN
MELBOURNE - James Blake was only two points from joining Andy Roddick and Fernando Gonzalez as an upset third-round loser at the Australian Open. But Blake rallied from two sets down, then double break in the fourth before beating veteran Frenchman...
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:36:12 EST