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Meet Darrelle Revis, the Reason the Jets Are Good

Yesterday, the radio dials shook with outrage when the Packers' Charles Woodson, in the midst of a Hall of Fame career, won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award over Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis. (The Post actually led their story with "The Jets get no respect," a viewpoint one suspects they'll alter if the Jets happen to lose Sunday.) Revis is the best player on the Jets, the largest asset the team has against the cavalcade of powerful offenses left in the playoffs, and someone you probably couldn't pick out of a lineup.

Where are Revis's commercials? »

Devils Prevail in a Goaltending Duel for the Ages

The Rangers may have played in their best game of the season last night: a 1–0 affair in which the only puck that crossed the goal line did so in the fourth round of the shootout. Unfortunately for them, that puck came off the stick of Patrick Elias and got past Henrik Lundqvist, who's credited with the rare combination of a shutout and an overtime loss.

An Olympic preview? »

01/12/10

Brad Smith Is NOT Running the Wildcat

Whether through ignorance, a desire to sound "with it," or some misguided notion that NFL fans live in a bubble where high-school and college football don't exist, game announcers and various other outlets that should know better have been saying that Jets plays featuring Brad Smith at quarterback are run out of the "Wildcat formation." If you want to know what the innovative "Wildcat formation" actually is, watch the Dolphins or click here. To see Brad Smith subbing for Mark Sanchez and running the ball from the quarterback position out of standard formations — to see the same kind of plays that are and have been common in high schools and universities across America more or less since football was invented — watch the Jets.

Giants Stadium Could Rise From the Dead in Just Twelve Days

We begin our in-depth breakdown of the Jets-Chargers AFC Divisional Round game tomorrow — expect detailed dissertations on why San Diego is a terrible place, why Mark Sanchez is one lucky sumbitch, and why Darrelle Revis has so many double consonants in his first name — but today, while we can, we're going to focus on the most delicious notion of all. We're going to look at the small possibility that the Meadowlands could be unpacked from the mothballs to host one more game: the AFC Championship Game.

Holding off the wrecking ball. »

Should Chris Drury Be Offended That He’s Not an Olympic Alternate Captain?

There are 23 players on the United States Olympic hockey roster, 20 of them non-goalies who are thus eligible to be named a captain or alternate captain. Yesterday, five of those twenty were given letters for their jerseys: Jaime Langenbrunner will deservedly wear the "C," while Zach Parise, Dustin Brown, Ryan Suter, and Brian Rafalski will serve as alternates. That's a quarter of the eligible players, and Chris Drury isn't one of them. To answer the question posed in the title of this post, yes, he should be offended.

He's a veteran, dammit! »

Eddy Curry and the Mystery of the Haunted Hotel

Sure, the Knicks got blown out by the Thunder last night, but they have a perfectly reasonable excuse for this one: Their hotel was haunted! While in Oklahoma City, the team stayed at the Skirvin Hilton, notorious for its ghost sightings and strange noises. (Legend has it a woman jumped to her death while holding her baby in the thirties.) You can't be expected to guard Kevin Durant after sleeping in a place like that.

Scooby Doo, where are you? »

Oklahoma City, City of Lights

We are glad no one asked Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni if he wished he were coaching the Oklahoma City Thunder last night, because we suspect it would have been difficult for him to lie. D'Antoni was clearly salivating at the "length" and talent of the Thunder, who wiped out the Knicks 106–88. (Afterward, D'Antoni limited himself to an awesome "we'll just throw this one down the toilet and move on" quote.) The Thunder are exactly the type of team D'Antoni would love to coach, even though they're in Oklahoma City. Seriously, watch his press conference: The man has Thunder Envy. The loss dropped the Knicks' playoff odds to 46.4 percent, still good enough for eighth in the conference, but just barely.

It’s Your Turn to Pick the NBA Jam Rosters

Apparently uninterested in using the awesome rosters we assembled last week, EA Sports is allowing fans to vote on the three players who will appear on each team's roster in its new NBA Jam game. Voting is open for the Kings, Clippers, and Thunder until next Monday, so now's your chance to correct our omission of Baron Davis. [EA Sports via Ball Don't Lie/Yahoo]

Steroids, Mark McGwire, and Why Athletes Growing Old Is Worse for Them Than It Is for You

On the one hand, Mark McGwire, in his hypnotic interview with Bob Costas on MLB Network yesterday, did all that could have possibly been asked of him. As Cardinals blog Viva El Birdos points out, every question we might have conceivably considered was answered, in impressive, often depressing detail. (McGwire didn't just talk to Costas, and VEB compiles all the interviews he did throughout the day.) Mark McGwire, for once, was not evasive in his answers. That's not enough, of course. It couldn't be.

Retired players, taking the heat. »

01/11/10

Is Ultimate Fighting Coming to New York?

Mixed martial arts was quite the controversial sport in the mid-nineties, when John McCain branded it "human cockfighting." Since then, McCain has gone on to bigger and better things, the sport has reformed itself, and Dana White has amassed a multi-million-dollar fortune as the head of the UFC, cage-fighting's biggest league. But the sport still can't get past bans in eight states, including New York, which outlawed it in 1997.

But that may change. »

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