A timeout and a holding penalty on the Jets couldn't prevent Mike Nugent from hurting the Jets' draft position helping the Jets end a disappointing season with a 13-10 win over Kansas City on Sunday evening at the Meadowlands. A 33-yard make, which set off some premature celebrations, turned into a 43-yard try after Wade Smith got nailed for holding. Nugent made that too, a fitting sendoff for special teams coach Mike Westoff, who told......

While much of the football excitement this weekend surrounds the New York Giants' game versus the New England Patriots tonight, the Jets still have an interesting Week 17 matchup. The game against the Kansas City Chiefs isn't what the NFL had in mind when it drew up its schedule. Both the Jets and Chiefs were playoff teams from a year ago, but the teams have looked awful this season, with young quarterbacks and veterans competing......

Eight of the Jets' 12 losses have come by seven points or fewer. Too many of them have followed the script of Sunday's 10-6 defeat at the hands of the Tennessee Titans in Nashville. Jets fans have to be sick of a banged-up team not expressing confidence in its quarterback -- Chad Pennington wasn't named the starter but played over Kellen Clemens and his sore ribs -- and then going out there and laying......

It's the dawn of a new era as the Jets are expected to announce the hiring of New England defensive coordinator Eric Mangini as the 15th head coach in franchise history, ESPN.com first reported last night. The first three things that standout about Mangini are: his age, (now the youngest coach in the NFL, turning 35 on Thursday), his prior tenure with the Jets (1997-99 as a defensive assistant under Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells)......

- Sad news - Lou Rawls died today - Did an FBI agent help the mob? - DMX is let out of jail early for good behavior! - Top 40 songs do not mean a successful musical, says the NY Sun (thousands of Broadwaylyricists and composers cheer!) - Herm Edwards is free to go to Kansas - Free yoga classes for employees at Arnold, the ad agency - will this mean three martini lunches are......

The Jets can finally say that their season is mercifully over. The good news is that they ended it with a 30-26 win over the Buffalo Bills. The bad news is the win moved them to the 4th pick in the NFL Draft behind Houston, New Orleans/San Antonio/etc, and Tennessee. The Jets win was keyed by Justin Miller's 95-yard kickoff return late in the 4th quarter to take the lead. Ty Law, the lone Jets......

When the Jets host defending Super Bowl champion New England tonight, it will be the final Monday Night Football game as we know it – ABC will move the longest running show in prime time over to ESPN at the start of the 2006 season as NBC's Sunday night package becomes the league's new showcase, with an contractual ability to move choice games from Sunday afternoon to Sunday night on short notice. As expected, Wayne......

The sad Jets host the disappointing Raiders, Sunday at 1 p.m. in East Rutherford. With former Giants QB Kerry Collins struggling, Oakland looks to start the physical Marques Tuiasosopo, who hasn't even taken a snap in game action this season. On another football note, this is Heisman Trophy weekend, and while the award will be bestowed Saturday night on ESPN from the Nokia Theatre for the first time, tonight marks the annual tradition of the......

Another week, another loss and, for the time being another pair of injured quarterbacks for the Jets (2-8), who were shut out 27-0 in Denver. Now it's just pathetic, and even the most diehard Jets fan will have to come to grips with that in the coming days and weeks ahead. After a concussion to starter Brooks Bollinger and an injury to Vinny Testaverde's ankle, Kliff Kingsbury entered the game. That Kingsbury may be in......

Peter Braunstein update: His father is sure he is was behind the attacks and details first marriage Larry Silverstein has built a 30-foot deep hole for a residential tower at 11th Avenue and 42nd Street...where the Javits Center wants to build a hotel The Village Voice's Sydney Schanberg takes New York magazine to task for its coverage of the Voice's merger Jets coach Herm Edwards might be on his way out Murder Inc. drug......

It's become a season from Hell for the Jets, as the team lost its fourth consecutive game and a 10th player to injury for the season - starting right tackle Jason Fabini, in a 30-3 loss to Carolina Sunday in Charlotte. Even if you're not a Jets fan, you may feel for someone as heartfelt as coach Herm Edwards, who finds himself increasingly frustrated and emotional. "If it doesn't kill you, it makes you strong,"......

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......

Entering the season, one of the big questions facing the Jets was how well Chad Pennington's shoulder would hold up. With erratic performances in the first two games of the season, Sunday's 26-20 loss against the Jaguars couldn't make Jets fans feel any better. At the start of the 2nd half, Pennington was sacked on consecutive plays and had his shoulder injured on the 2nd sack. Pennington would return later (after an injury to......

- Some of L.A. gets a blackout; so far, it doesn't seem to be Al Qaeda but rather some "overzealous cable cutting"... however, it's unlikely that blackout babies will be conceived, since power should be going up soon - NYU has taken in some students from colleges affected by Hurricane Katrina - At the Art Parade, Elijah Wood tries to dispel the "hobbits are gay" rumors - New York Rangers captain Mark Messier retires (yes,......

All offseason, Jets’ coach, Herm Edwards, has insisted that kicker, Doug Brien, would be back for the 2005 season, despite his having missed two key field goals in the playoffs last January. After this weekend’s NFL Draft, Brien would be wise to update his resume. The Jets spent their top selection on kicker, Mike Nugent, of Ohio State, almost guaranteeing the end of Brien’s career as a Jet. The Jets also added a kick returner......

You know the deal: the stakes are no less than the entire season riding on a single game. The Jets (11-6) visit top-seeded Pittsburgh (15-1) (Saturday, 4:30 p.m., TV: CBS, Radio: 1050 ESPN) in an AFC Divisional Playoff game. For those who haven't been paying attention, Pittsburgh has a rookie quarterback named Ben Roethlisberger (pictured impersonating Stevie Wonder - OK, a joke) who has yet to lose in his first 13 starts,an NFL record. Yes,......

Trailing 7-6 at the half, the Jets scored 23 unanswered points in the second half, defeating the formerly expansion Houston Texans 29-7 yesterday in East Rutherford. In his return from a shoulder injury that kept him out of action for a couple weeks, quarterback Chad Pennington looked like the Pennington of old, completing 20 of 27 passes for 155 yards and two scores. When writing about Pennington's first down run, the Post said, he "bounced......

Maybe it sounds like the title of another cheesy Lifetime network drama with Meredith Baxter Birney or Judith Light, but last season a loss of QB Chad Pennington led to a collapse that was all too serious for Jets fans. Even with Pennington scheduled for a return within the next three weeks, Jets fans fell aghast at the team's second loss in a row, a 20-17 overtime loss at the hands of the visiting Baltimore......

In their worst effort of the season (a few unforced errors against New England were understandable), the Jets comitted seven penalties, two turnovers, and added a missed field goal in a 22-17 AFC East loss to the host Buffalo Bills. Willis McGahee was an effective warhorse for Buffalo, gaining 132 yards and a score on 37 carries. Starting QB Chad Pennington did not return to action after the midway point of the fourth quarter, when......

After their first loss of the season, the Jets face their first rebound challenge of the year on Monday night, as they host the Miami Dolphins. It's much more intriguing than most matchups between a 5-1 team and a 1-6 squad, particularly after Miami's offense came alive for the first time this season to outgun St. Louis 31-14 last week. Maybe that's why Jets coach Herm Edwards felt he needed to unleash a rare verbal......