Tom Brady sure loves New York, huh? Not only does he walk around town wearing a Yankees hat, but he comes here to spend time with his ubermodel girlfriend Gisele Bundchen in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl. Brady was spotted walking to Bundchen's West Village apartment Monday carrying flowers (how sweet) and wearing a protective boot on his right foot. About the injury, Brady said that it's not a big deal, "Ah,......

Photograph of kicker Lawrence Tynes after the game-winning field goal by David J. Phillip/AP The Giants won the NFC Championship in overtime, beating the Green Bay Packers 23-20 in overtime and overcome the frigid, below-zero conditions. They are now headed to the Super Bowl where they will meet the New England Patriots, who beat the San Diego Chargers 21-12. Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes missed a field goal as time expired in the fourth quarter,......

Ready for a quarterback controversy? Kellen Clemens took a while to get his feet under him, but he almost led the Jets back in their 20-13 loss in Baltimore. A drop and a poor throw of his own cost Clemens down the stretch, and the Jets are 0-2. At least they didn't go weakly into the Baltimore night. If not for Justin McCareins' buttery fingers, this game would have gone to overtime. This performance won't......

Holy Cow! We actually didn't even know that VitaminWater was made in Queens until Coca-Cola decided to buy the company for $4 billion. The Queens-based owners weren't the only people getting a fat pay-out from the purchase. David Wright, the Mets third baseman who endorses the product, accepted a small slice of equity in the company in lieu of payment last year. Now Wright's small stake in the company is worth $20 million.Days after inking......

Raise your hand if, at the beginning of the season, you thought the Jets would have seven wins in 2006. Keep them raised if you thought they'd have seven wins after 12 games. We bet there not too many hands still in the air. Well, the Jets do have seven wins, and they do have a shot at the playoffs. Their only problem is five teams not in first place have the same record,......

Courtney Hall, Ninth Grade Teacher...

The NY Times looks at the festering squabble between the NYPD and bike riders who participate in Critical Mass by way of the police's unusually aggressive tactics to try to stop the rides. The big question seems to be, why are the police using SUVs and patrol cars, driving them onto sidewalks even, to pursue bikers? The NYPD's line seems to be that the bikers are creating a traffic mess with potential dangers for......

Come this summer, you may see a new NYPD car - the Dodge Charger, best known as the Dukes of Hazzard car. The NYPD is adding fifteen 4-door Chargers for its Highway Unit - they must really love the Hemi - and ten will be tested this summer. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "We're always looking for good equipment, including a little muscle in the car department," which almost sounds dirty. Of course, the NYPD's......

The youth movement with the Jets continued yesterday as they named the 36 year-old Mike Tannenbaum as their general manager. With head coach Eric Mangini, 35, the two will form the youngest coach/GM combination in the NFL. The Redskins and Chargers could have 10 year olds as their GMs and still be older than the Jets pair. Tannenbaum, who was the senior vice president for football operations and assistant general manager, takes over for Terry......

The image of San Diego's Ladainian Tomlinson burning former All-Pro cornerback Ty Law for a 25-yard touchdown will be a difficult one for any Jets fan to forget. But for a while, that pain almost was forgotten, as Brooks Bollinger replaced a slightly injured and mostly ineffective Vinny Testaverde to rally the Jets (2-6) to turn a would-be laugher into a nail-biter, as the Chargers (5-4) held on for a 31-26 victory Sunday in East......

You know its been a tough season when Jets fans look back so fondly to last season's cardiac-inducing AFC Divisional playoff victory over the San Diego Chargers. Remember linebacker Eric Barton's penalty, which could have been the costliest in franchise history? Anyhow, with things looking down but not yet out for the Jets (2-5), a date with a San Diego (4-4) team that looks like last year was no fluke does not seem like an......

The Giants (2-1) look to rebound from last week’s beating when they play the Rams this Sunday at 1pm on FOX. The Rams while no longer “The Greatest Show on Turf” still posses a potent offense that will challenge a Giants defense that gave up 45 points and 485 yards to the Chargers last week. To make matters worse, cornerback, Will Peterson, has been ruled out for this game and may miss the rest of......

Chargers’ fans got the first, the last and most of the laughs in between Sunday night as San Diego obliterated the Giants 45-23. LaDanian Tomlinson showed why many consider him to be the best running back in the NFL with 192 yards rushing and three TD’s. He also threw for a touchdown on a great halfback option play to start the second half. Eli Manning was the subject of scorn and derision from the San......

The Giants look to get to 3-0 this Sunday night as they travel to San Diego to play the Chargers in a game on ESPN at 8:30. The game marks a homecoming of sorts for quarterback Eli Manning. Manning was selected first overall by the Chargers in the 2004 draft, but refused to play for them, prompting a trade to the Giants during the draft. Fans and players in San Diego have not forgotten Manning’s......

The Giants took advantage of six Saints turnovers to win 27-10 Monday night. New Orleans started the game off by trying a reverse on a kickoff return and fumbling the ball on their own ten-yard line. Three plays later, Brandon Jacobs pounded the ball into the end zone and the Giants had a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Eli Manning completed 13 of 24 passes for 165 yards, connecting with Tiki Barber on a six-yard touchdown......

The game: Jets at Kansas City (1:00 PM ET, Sunday, CBS) As expected, during the Jets' 2005 offseason, the team's proposal for a new stadium on the West Side of Manhattan (and its subsequent rejection and abandonment) made for more headlines than the football franchise itself did. But thankfully, the football franchise did not sit on its heels in theoffseason, knowing it needed to make several necessary moves if there is to any hope of......

Even for people who don't know football, the Jets' 20-17 overtime win in San Diego in an AFC Wild Card game Saturday night had a little bit of everything, particularly of the extracurricular variety. First, the Jets played well enough to win. Then, at the latest and worse possible moment, a single player's costly mistake (Eric Barton's personal foul on Drew Brees after an incomplete pass that otherwise would have effectively ended the game) singlehandedly......

In a Saturday night special, the Jets travel to San Diego to face the league's most surprisingly good team in the Chargers in an AFC Wild-Card game (Saturday, 8 p.m., TV: CBS, RADIO: ESPN 1050AM). It seems nobody believes in this team right now, at least after a stretch that saw the team's offense disappear and the team back into the playoffs, even with Chad Pennington seemingly healthy. Read between the lines in receiver Santana......

The Jets need amend their New Years Resolution to include thanking the Steelers for having a B-Squad good enough to keep the Buffalo Bills from the AFC Playofs, because St. Louis, and regardless of what the smarmy columnists may say, the Jets (10-6) received a spot after a 32-29 overtime loss to the Rams, who delivered in an actual must-win situation. Curtis Martin finished the afternoon with the the rushing title and 1,697 yards on......

- The Jets beat the "hapless" Chargers. - The Giants defeat the even more hapless Redskins after they turn it over seven times. - Another weekend of college football action brings some more rankings from Gothamist. - The Mets hold off the Expos and stay out of last. - The Yankees are headed to the playoffs, and dress their rookies as Elvis. The week in full from Gothamist Sports.......

With a 34-28 win over the hapless San Diego Chargers yesterday, the Jets did exactly what they were expected to do, but they also completed at least one important part of their checklist heading into the only bye week of their season - they successfully held on. With another 100-plus yard outing (32 carries for 119 yards and 2 touchdowns on the game's first two possessions) Curtis Martin surpassed Freeman McNeil the franchise's all-time rushing......

JETS at San Diego Chargers, Sunday 4:15 p.m. ET, TV: CBS; RADIO: 1050 AM After a season that saw the team reach a new low after respected General Manager John Butler died of cancer, the San Diego Chargers used the first pick of the 2004 NFL Draft to select Eli Manning. Manning, who shares an agent (Tom Condon) with Chargers QB Drew Brees, the starter for most of last season, made it clear that he......

After five seasons with the Giants, it seems like Kerry Collins will no longer be a Giant. Collins joined the Giants in 1999 after a stint in alcohol rehab, but turned the Giants and himself around, making the Super Bowl in 2000. He started 67 straight games until he was injured in December of 2003. Collins's career with the Giants was all but over the moment the Giants made a draft-day trade for Eli Manning.......