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Tampa Bay safety Dexter Jackson was named the most valuable player of Super Bowl XXXVII today, but if Oakland quarterback Rich Gannon had submitted a vote, he might have picked […]

Quarterbacks Rich Gannon won the league's Most Valuable Player award this season, leading a stunning attack, while Brad Johnson always seemed to be taking shots and scrambling for the sake […]

Sentiment is something to be eased past when Tiki and Ronde Barber speak to each other, and sarcasm is the grease. You almost had millions of New Yorkers ready to […]

Donovan McNabb's head swiveled back and forth in Philadelphia last Sunday, looking for an open receiver on a defensive horizon littered with Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With his receivers usually covered, […]

The Giants have determined they will bring back Jason Garrett, who served as their third-string quarterback last season. The Giants cannot officially begin re-signing their own free agents until later […]

The radio reporter was trying to pose a deferential question to Tampa Bay kicker Martin Gramatica in the interview room Thursday. But as the journalist spoke more about the powerful […]

John Lynch and Lincoln Kennedy played high school football in this city, long before they made it to the National Football League and before they returned here this week, as […]

Lincoln Kennedy, the Oakland Raiders' standout right offensive tackle, may retire if the Raiders win on Sunday. Kennedy, in his 10th year in the N.F.L., turns 32 next month. 'I'm […]

Instead of focusing on the quarterback, or on the ball as it moves around the field, National Football League players, coaches and executives will scan their television screens Sunday for […]

Giants Coach Jim Fassel drew from his roots in hiring Turk Schonert as the new quarterbacks coach. Schonert, 46, played quarterback at Stanford in 1979, when Fassel worked there as […]

Jon Gruden pushes emotional buttons like a serial speed-dialer, jabbing his index finger crookedly, arching an eyebrow, cocking his head. We need you, he told wide receiver Keenan McCardell during […]

Jeremy Shockey's statistics for the 2002 season are finally complete: 74 receptions, 894 receiving yards, one infamous dining hall brawl, one Pro Bowl invitation, 18,377 on-field gestures -- give or […]

Jon Gruden did not know the identity of his quarterback when he jumped the Oakland Raiders to become coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last winter, or whom that quarterback […]

By the time Jon Gruden finished preparing the Buccaneers to play today, he made all of the apparitions that haunted his players sound like harmless monsters in the closet. The […]

The defense that plays the best will win this game, Eagles cornerback Troy Vincent stated bluntly into a microphone Friday. Duce Staley, one of the best offensive players in Sunday's […]

There must be fear somewhere inside Eagles safety Brian Dawkins. He says there is not. But fear dwells within the National Football League. Fear is why wide receivers pull their […]

Giants General Manager Ernie Accorsi has received a letter from Ron Dayne's agent suggesting that it might be a good time for the team to trade Dayne. But Dayne told […]

In Jeremy Shockey's first season in the N.F.L., he made the Pro Bowl, set a Giants record for catches by a tight end and became an emotional leader of a […]

Brian Dawkins pulled on a pair of glasses in the Eagles' locker room just after midnight, a thinly framed pair, the kind you might see left behind in a law […]

Michael Vick had it easy against Green Bay last week, running around the Packers as if he were a camp counselor eluding a pack of 10-year-olds. Tonight, against the Philadelphia […]

Under normal circumstances, Giants General Manager Ernie Accorsi would not allow an assistant coach under contract to join a rival team. But as Sean Payton, the Giants' offensive coordinator, took […]

The National Football League has the regulatory means in place to force a replay of a game, either in its entirety or just a portion, only in extraordinary circumstances. But […]

Coach Jim Fassel barely slept after the Giants' devastating playoff loss Sunday, and exhaustion tinged his tone when he expressed frustration about the collapse and the officiating at the end […]

Will Allen tried to think about something other than the Giants' playoff disintegration on the team's subdued flight back from San Francisco on Sunday night. He failed, of course. His […]

The National Football League announced today that its game officials erred on Sunday and that the Giants should have had one more play to save themselves from the second-worst collapse […]

Trey Junkin came out of retirement for this, at 41 years old, to stand over a football and snap it back between his legs 8 yards, something he had been […]

The last chaotic pass attempt by punter Matt Allen came on a play the Giants practiced repeatedly during the season. Once Allen realized Matt Bryant could not attempt a 41-yard […]

Chris Bober studies defenses the way a geologist looks at rocks, turning them fully, examining all sides, looking for clues. The Giants begin their game preparation on Wednesdays, and on […]

If hurt has to look like something, it may look the way Kerry Collins did after Super Bowl XXXV. Ernie Accorsi, the Giants' general manager, approaches Collins in the locker […]

When Ron Dixon finished pass routes today, in his first practice in more than a month, he flexed his right knee slightly, testing, monitoring what he felt. Dixon, a third-year […]

The maturation of the Giants from a mediocre team to a playoff contender was incremental, subtle changes made over weeks and months. Their running game, once nonexistent, became functional and […]

The Giants' kicking units are like an improvisational comedic troupe, the characters changing constantly. Dan O'Leary, the long snapper, is out after tearing a thumb ligament, and Trey Junkin, a […]

Terrell Owens jabbered loudly in Jason Sehorn's face after making the catch that effectively beat the Giants in the season opener Sept. 5. Sehorn is not a trash-talker, but that […]

Amani Toomer burned the San Francisco secondary for 9 receptions and 134 yards on Sept. 5, and he would probably draw special attention from the 49ers on Sunday even if […]

Tiki Barber lay in bed yesterday afternoon and channel-surfed, sore but happily so, and he watched all the games that no longer had an effect on whether the Giants would […]

Perpetual failure drained the Giants here today, slashing into their veins of hope on a day they dreamed of making the playoffs. Seven fumbles, an interception, two touchdowns called back […]

Michael Strahan's speech here today was simple and direct, his head bobbing with every inflection. Some teammates nodded along as Strahan outlined what he considered the most significant regular-season game […]

A flu bug accomplished what many defensive backs and linebackers have failed to do, taking down Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey. The rookie arrived at Giants Stadium this morning after […]

Jeremy Shockey created his own small lane last Sunday when he plowed through Indianapolis safety David Gibson on a bruising catch-and-run. But all around him, the Giants' offensive linemen seemed […]

Will Peterson stood with his hands in his pockets at the corner of the end zone in Indianapolis on Sunday, looking forlorn as he watched his teammates warm up before […]

Giants Coach Jim Fassel saw Jeremy Shockey play in college, as Fassel casually flipped channels. But Shockey embedded an impression when Fassel began watching tapes last winter, in preparation for […]

The Giants' season turned today, a full rotation of fortune or fate, but the 10 offensive players on the field at the final two-minute warning were oblivious. Their teammates on […]