How the Giants have totally changed their perception after one year of mostly misery
NY Post
It’s incredible the difference a year can make.
During last year’s NFL combine, there was little hope around the Giants. Head coach Brian Daboll was on the hot seat. The Giants did not have a franchise quarterback, and it appeared unlikely they would be able to find one through the draft. In fact, they didn’t even have their stopgap in place — it would be several weeks before they signed Jameis Winston and Russell Wilson. GM Joe Schoen was entering the most critical offseason of his tumultuous tenure, needing to provide some sign he was still the right architect to lead the Giants forward.
Then from last year’s combine onward, the Giants had about as nightmarish a season as possible, finishing 4-13.
But, one year later, genuine hope and confidence are radiating around the franchise for the first time in a long time. The mood is overly positive, despite all their failings between the two combines.
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Where were the grownups for Team USA?
The Rangers reconvened after the Olympic stoppage wanting to find some successful combinations that had been largely absent through much of a disappointing last-place season.
SALT LAKE CITY — There was no sugarcoating an ugly first-half performance from the Knicks in the locker room, and the harsh words during the break helped spur a comeback in Wednesday’s 134-117 victory over the Jazz.
Team USA’s fate is out of its hands.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Jasson Domínguez’s first-inning at-bat against Tanner Banks on Tuesday featured a different result and a different swing than “The Martian” had been accustomed to against lefty pitching.
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Bam Adebayo occupies a new spot in the NBA history books.
Jets fans have been waiting for months to put the 2025 season in the past and start building a new roster.
SALT LAKE CITY — Leon Rose tried to address the bench in the summer. It didn’t work. He got a redo at the trade deadline with Jose Alvarado and Jeremy Sochan.
If Isaiah Likely was the most … er … likely former Raven to follow head coach John Harbaugh to the Giants, Patrick Ricard wasn’t far behind.
The deal that brought Aidan Thompson to the Rangers didn’t create the ripple effects that the Artemi Panarin trade did because of who departed the organization. That was only Derrick Pouliot, a 32-year-old defenseman more than two years removed from his last NHL game. It didn’t create the waves like one for, say, Vincent Trocheck, would have because of current NHL players or draft capital the Blueshirts received in return, either.