Ralph Vacchiano
The Daily News
Mann, Archie's boys are tough
posted Tue Sep 7 at 22:21:43 ET
The blood gushing from their son’s forehead was what Olivia Manning first noticed. But Archie Manning looked at it more like a quarterback. When he saw Eli get hit from...
Live Chat: Wednesday at noon
posted Tue Sep 7 at 13:33:47 ET
The NFL season is set to kick off as the Giants try to open up the 2010 season on the right foot against the Panthers. Beat writer Ralph Vacchiano is...
O'Hara expects to "monitor" injury all year
posted Mon Sep 6 at 13:41:54 ET
Shaun O’Hara said he “felt good” at practice today and he’s hopeful of practicing again on Wednesday. But the reality seems to be that his strained Achilles will be something...
Back in business for Big Blue line
posted Mon Sep 6 at 10:35:43 ET
UPDATED: 11:30 a.m. After an injury plagued summer, the Giants’ first-team offensive line was fully intact for their first practice of the first week of the NFL’s regular season. Center...
Bomar is back; Brown runs to Denver
posted Sun Sep 5 at 14:15:12 ET
Rhett Bomar, who was the Giants’ No. 2 (and sometimes No. 1) quarterback for most of the summer, cleared waivers at noon today and was quickly signed to the Giants’...
Read and React
but don’t overreact
posted Sun Sep 5 at 10:37:13 ET
There was a players revolt 18 years ago when Ray Handley and Rod Rust tried to turn a once-aggressive Giants defense into a passive read-and-react team. A similar approach didn’t...
The 2010 Giants ... at least for now
posted Sat Sep 4 at 18:30:34 ET
Here is the official, 53-man roster now that it’s been set and announced by the Giants. Click here for the full list of the 24 moves they made today. And...
Sage advice: Learn the offense quickly
posted Sat Sep 4 at 16:20:11 ET
Rhett Bomar is out. Sage Rosenfels is in. And right now he’s the only other quarterback besides Eli Manning on the roster. In other words, the 32-year-old Rosenfels better pick...
Giants begin making "final" cuts
posted Sat Sep 4 at 10:14:21 ET
UPDATED WITH OFFICIAL CUTS, CONFIRMED BY THE TEAM The Giants don’t officially have to trim their roster from 75 to 53 until 6 p.m., but the players began getting word...
Getting to 53 just got a lot harder
posted Sat Sep 4 at 00:44:04 ET
The good news for the Giants’ coaching staff is that they don’t have many decisions to make in the next few hours. The bad news is that from what I...
Giants trade for QB Sage Rosenfels
posted Fri Sep 3 at 20:59:15 ET
UPDATED: 10:18 p.m. Rhett Bomar obviously didn’t do enough this summer to convince the Giants that he should be their backup quarterback because they just went out and got somebody...
Coughlin "surprised" by Jacobs' outburst
posted Fri Sep 3 at 14:45:27 ET
Tom Coughlin was admittedly “surprised” when he heard this morning that Brandon Jacobs finally let his frustration boil over. And not surprisingly, Coughlin sought out Jacobs for a little chat....
On 2nd thought, Jacobs is unhappy
posted Fri Sep 3 at 10:41:41 ET
Brandon Jacobs is hurt again. Only this time, the injury isn’t physical. The Giants’ former No. 1 running back, who now has clearly been demoted to Ahmad Bradshaw’s backup, finally...
Game night: Patriots (2-1) at Giants (1-2)
posted Thu Sep 2 at 12:02:28 ET
10:54 p.m. - - A few notes from the post-game locker room: • It turns out that RB Andre Brown suffered his turf-toe injury at practice last week, though he...
Giants not hung up on a deal for Leinart
posted Wed Sep 1 at 23:57:15 ET
The phone rang, the Giants answered, they talked, they hung up. And that’s about as close as Matt Leinart came to becoming the Giants backup quarterback on Wednesday. There apparently...
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