At a post-season press conference, Ryan and Tannenbaum make 2011 disappear:
“He’s been a tremendous player for us,” Ryan said. “He’s won a ton of games for this franchise … and he’s been a good teammate.”
Bio: Josh Curtis has written about sports for The New York Observer.
“Baggie day” is the unofficial name given to the afternoon on which N.F.L. teams are forced to clean out their lockers. For every team but the Super Bowl winner, it’s a sullen occasion marked at best by hope for next season and at worst, by uncertainty, blame allocation and bitter recrimination. Yesterday in Florham Park, N.J., the home of the New York Jets, it was the worst case. More
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on January 3rd, 2012 12:37pmA few days removed from a masterfully engineered last-second drive to defeat the Patriots in Foxborough, Giants quarterback Eli Manning is the toast of New York football. He has proven, writers and fans now say, that he is precisely the elite quarterback he claimed to be.
The coronation of Manning following his victory in New England also seems to have provided a convenient new impetus for the relentless, exuberant, sometimes-manic criticism of Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez. Whereas before Sanchez was simply not good enough, now he is simply not Eli. More
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on November 11th, 2011 3:51pmAt the relatively tender age of 45, Prokhorov is arguably the richest man in all of professional sports, his $13.4 billion net worth rivaling that of Portland Trailblazers owner and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. That kind of precocity is not to be taken lightly in any case, but it’s what Prokhorov said at his introductory press conference in May that ought to strike fear in the heart of James Dolan, the asocial Cablevision scion (and frontman of JD & The Straight Shot) who, unfortunately for the Knicks, owns them. Rather than discuss the details of his blueprint for resurrecting the Nets, Prokhorov addressed his plan macrocosmically, declaring, “We will turn Knicks fans into Nets fans.” More
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on July 15th, 2010 8:00am
