Archive for January, 2010

Mexico’s soccer team will play Ecuador in a World Cup warmup on May 7 is the first professional sports event at the $1.6 billion new Meadowlands Stadium.
The exhibition game in East Rutherford, N.J., is part of a six-game U.S. tour for Mexico as it prepares to face South Africa in the World Cup opener June [...]

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Carlos Dunlap
Measurables:
6′6” 290 pounds. Born February 20, 1989. Junior.
Stats:
Career: 77 tackles, 1 FF, 19 sacks, 4 blocked kicks.
2009: 34 tackles (25 solo) 9 sacks in 13 games.
Big Games:  @ kentucky 2 tackles, 1 sack, 1 pass defensed
@ mississippi state 5 tackles. 3 [...]

ESPN has a really cool piece on their site right now, it’s called 43 rings 43 stories, and contains a story from every Super Bowl winner.  I recommend checking it out.  It contains stories about Harry Carson,  Otis Anderson and Justin Tuck.  Here is the link.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/rings

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This will wrap up the decade by decade look at the history of the New York Giants and will focus on the Giants of the 2000’s.  I will continue with history about players, coaches and stadiums of the Giants next.
2000: Picked by most experts to finish in last place at the start of the season [...]

Remember how, only a few hours ago, QB coach Chris Palmer retired? Well, he pulled a Brett Favre on us. Palmer is going to become the next head coach of the UFL’s New York (and soon to be Hartford) Sentinels. He replaces Ted Cottrell. Not sure why he would do that, but I guess it’s [...]

Bit of a shocker here: QB coach Chris Palmer has retired, according to the Giants. Palmer is credited for helping Eli Manning become a Pro Bowl and Super Bowl winning quarterback. No word yet on his replacement. We here at GiantsGab wish him the best of luck in retired life.
“I had a great run with [...]

From Mike Garafolo:
We’ve gotten a look at the official amounts for a franchise or transition tag at each position for this upcoming season. Here’s a look at the amounts:
CORNERBACK: $9.566 million (franchise), $8.056 million (transition)
DEFENSIVE END: $12.398m, $10.193m
DEFENSIVE TACKLE: $7.003m, $6.353m
LINEBACKER: $9.680m, $8.373m
OFFENSIVE LINE: $10.731m, $9.142m
PUNTER/KICKER: $2.814m, $2.629m
QUARTERBACK: $16.405m, $14.546m
RUNNING BACK: $8.156m, $7.151m
SAFETY: $6.455m, $6.011m
TIGHT [...]

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Micah Johnson is a prospect that Giants fans should be very interested in for this upcoming draft. Micah Johnson played in the very tough S.E.C. and had some monster games the last two seasons of his career at Kentucky.
Micah Johnson’ is a very good athlete and is someone who will be drafted anywhere between late [...]

Here is Perry Fewell’s transcript from his press conference today:
Q. What kind of challenge is this going to be? You had a few opportunities but decided to take on this challenge with a defense that gave up the most points since 1966?
A. I think it is a workable challenge. I look forward to the opportunity [...]

Now that Perry Fewell has been introduced, he’s making the media rounds. I was in the car when he was on WFAN. Listen to the interview here.
The thing that impressed me most was when Fewell mentioned how fiery he is. He likes to chest bump players, slap them on the behind, but he’s not afraid [...]