Victor Cruz
Triumphant Giants get away with a flawed secondary, but barely
The championship-caliber narrative of the Giants' season was kept alive on Sunday by a fingertip. More
(2)Blaming A-Rod, not the team that gave him that hideous contract
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
The fierce urgency of Ahmad Bradshaw, more pronounced than ever
Someone put something in Bradshaw’s coffee yesterday. FOX cameras spotted this early and trained on him for the rest of the game. It started during the ritual playing of “Hell’s Bells” before the opening kickoff, during which Bradshaw ardently drummed along, and then engaged a besuited middle-aged corporate type who happened to be standing on the sideline in a moment of rhythmic head-bobbing. More
Mr. Consistency: Domenik Hixon keeps the Giants moving
It’s easy to overlook Domenik Hixon. As far as Giants receivers go, Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz are the stars. Ramses Barden is the huge guy with obvious potential. Rueben Randle is the future. More
'Just stay focused': Maybe Rueben Randle doesn't need to get worked up
Rueben Randle, showered and in street clothes, was two steps toward the door of the Giants locker room when I intercepted him last Thursday. Perhaps if he weren’t a rookie, he would have shrugged and kept going. But he is one, and he didn’t want to give the impression that he was cutting corners. More
The Tom Coughlin mantra and the Victor Cruz breakout, packaged for posterity
Because they’re documentaries, the N.F.L. Network’s “America’s Game” specials work better the further you go back in time. More
Why the Giants should be pleased, aside from Prince Amukamara
Preseason games don’t count.
That’s why the “win is a win is a win” mantra validly trotted out after even the most ugly, pyrrhic regular season victories doesn’t carry weight. Last night’s game was a perfect illustration of this: The Bears may have won the game, but the Giants’ starters outplayed the Bears’ starters and left with the score in their favor. The Bears won the game, but the Giants’ starters won the day. More
Jets go nowhere against the Giants, but then again it's August
Tempting as it might be to characterize the Giants’ 26-3 shellacking of the Jets on Saturday as the latest demonstration of the franchises’ opposite sizzle/steak ratios, it’s instructive to remember that it was still a meaningless preseason game. More
For the Yankees, CC Sabathia's elbow injury is anything but 'minor'
One mark of excellence for the New York Yankees this year has been how well the team has played in the face of unrelenting injuries. More
Do you think Lawrence Taylor cares who bought his Super Bowl ring?
Despite all the mugshots and perp-walks though the years, and even the lesser self-imposed humiliations like that Nutrisystem commercial, L.T.’s legend is still intact, safely preserved in the ‘80s highlight videos celebrating his greatness, in which football talking heads proclaimed we were watching a player who had changed the way the game is played. More
Osi agrees with Kurt Warner about kids and football; Ahmad Bradshaw enters his 'thunder' phase
You’ve probably heard about this little dust-up: Kurt Warner, the former star quarterback who took a mysterious sabbatical from his stardom as a Giant, expressed misgivings about having his children play football. More
(1)David Wilson, the running back who made the Giants break their rule about running backs
Conventional wisdom holds that running backs are the most fungible football commodity out there. It’s hard to find a great one, but it’s relatively easy to find one who’s good enough.
Over the past several years, the Giants have adhered to that mantra, and proven it: Ahmad Bradshaw was a seventh-round pick, and Brandon Jacobs was a fourth-round pick. The Giants plugged them in and the running game, notwithstanding a dip last year to the lowest per-carry average in the league, has generally been good. More
(1)Off-season Giants: Parcells, passing up the Saints job, always said he'd need less as he got older
When word first spread that Bill Parcells was considering returning to the N.F.L. to coach the Saints, I kept going back to a passage from Michael Lewis’s insightful 2006 profile, from when Parcells coached the Cowboys.
“As you get older,” Parcells tells Lewis toward the end of the article, “your needs diminish. They don’t increase. They diminish. I need less money. I need less sex. But this - this - doesn’t change.” More
Off-season Giants: Jerry Reese and the front office can do no wrong, even if you happen to be negotiating with them
Victor Cruz made a lot of Giants fans happy this past week. After saying earlier in the offseason that he felt he should be paid more, the overnight-sensation salsero assuaged their fears by promising not to hold out from training camp to demand a new contract. In fact, he said the word “holdout” is “not in my vocabulary. I don’t even know what that means.” More
(2)More on the Louise Meanwell affair, and you remember Macaulay Culkin, don't you?
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
