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Almost every form of life that has existed on earth appears to have gone through a ‘giant’ phase. There have been giant plants, giant insects, giant reptiles, giant birds, giant fish, giant mammals and giant humans.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress was suspended for one game by the New York Giants on Wednesday for an undisclosed violation of team rules. General manager Jerry Reese and coach Tom Coughlin informed Burress of the suspension Wednesday morning before the team held a bye-week practice. The suspension takes effect immediately, meaning Burress will miss the Giants' game against the Seattle Seahawks on Oct. 5. The Giants have a bye week, so Burress will lose two paychecks under the suspension. He will not be with the team during the bye week, and won't be allowed to...

WATERTOWN, Wis. -- Fred Merkle was born in Watertown, Wis., in 1888, but he spent only one year there before his family moved to Toledo, Ohio. Still, that didn't prevent Watertown resident David Stalker from claiming Merkle as the town's very own. He spearheaded an effort to erect a monument in Merkle's honor. Set in black marble with a baseball perched on top, the monument notes that Merkle was a "potent line-drive hitter and agile first-baseman." It says he was a member of six World Series teams. However, there is no mention on the monument of the play that earned...

One hundred years ago this afternoon, the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs played a game that can still be found on baseball's figurative Mount Rushmore, next to the Bobby Thompson home run game, the Sandy Amoros catch game, Don Larsen's perfect game, and the game where Carlton Fisk waved it fair. No one who played in or saw the game is alive. The Polo Grounds, where it was played, was demolished a half century ago. Doesn't matter. Some games just endure. More specifically, what happened on Sept. 23, 1908, was this. With the first breezes of autumn in...

WASHINGTON - President Bush lauded the NFL champion Giants today, calling their Super Bowl XLII triumph over the New England Patriots, “one of the great, legendary games in our country’s history.” Bush made his remarks at a 30-minute ceremony to honor the 2007 Giants on the South Lawn of the White House that capped an incredible day for the organization. Approximately 40 players, the coaching staff and members of the front office visited with wounded soldiers and Marines at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The group received a private tour of the White House, then a standing ovation at the...

The Giants unveiled the design of their Super Bowl championship ring today, a white gold sparkler that will feature about 1.5 carats in diamonds. The new ring will even make seven-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Strahan happy. Shortly after the Giants won the NFL championship with a 17-14 win over the previously undefeated New England Patriots, Strahan said he wanted a “10-table ring.” Loosely defined: He wanted a ring that could be seen 10 tables away in a restaurant. “There was some discussion about maybe one of the rings was too big,” said center Shaun O’Hara, who was among...

Discovery of vast prehistoric works built by Giants?The Geoglyphs of Teohuanaco Posted: February 24, 2008 1:00 am EasternBy David E. Flynn© 2008 RaidersNewsNetwork The size and scope of David Flynn's Teohuanaco discovery simply surpasses comprehension. Mammoth traces of intelligence carved in stone and covering hundreds of square miles. For those who understand what they are seeing here for the first time, this could indeed be the strongest evidence ever found of prehistoric engineering by those who were known and feared throughout the ancient world as gods. ~ Thomas Horn This satellite image (above) is a portion of the Andean foothills...

Congratulating the National Football League champion New York Giants for winning Super Bowl XLII and completing one of the most remarkable postseason runs in professional sports history. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas the entire Giants franchise has become a model of professionalism, teamwork, and community service in representing the entire New York and New Jersey metropolitan area: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives congratulates the National Football League champion New York Giants for winning Super Bowl XLII and completing one of the most impressive seasons in professional sports history.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday at the Pro Bowl that the NFL is willing to give former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh legal indemnification for any information and materials he would provide to the league regarding his work with the Patriots.

Super Tuesday indeed. It's estimated more than one million people filled the streets of Manhattan Tuesday, and it wasn't just so they could place their votes in the primary election. A ticker-tape parade kicked off at 11 a.m. in celebration of the New York Giants and their spectacular victory in Super Bowl XLII. The extravaganza began on Broadway at Battery Place and moved north through a blizzard of 50 tons of confetti and streamers past the financial district and the site of the World Trade Center, before a finale at City Hall Park. The stretch is known as the "Canyon...

It is reported that Sir Isaac Newton (who pioneered in gravity, optics, and other matters scientific and mathematical) once said: "If I have seen farther than others, it was because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." After the Super Bowl, Tom Brady said, "If I have not thrown as well as others, it was because the Giants were standing on my shoulders."

GLENDALE, Ariz. - There'll be no Hub parade on Super Tuesday. No commemorative books about "Path to Perfection." In New England, the church bells all are broken. Two-touchdown favorites and touted as possibly the greatest football team of all-time, the Patriots were beaten by the New York Giants, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII last night at University of Phoenix Stadium. Twenty-three hundred miles from Foxborough, an 18-0 season dissolved when New York's Eli Manning found Plaxico Burress in the end zone for a 13-yard touchdown pass with 35 seconds left. The Patriots lost the Super Bowl. It is an alternate...

One could argue that Bill Belichick owes everything to Mo Lewis. After all, if the Jets New York Jets outside linebacker hadn't almost killed Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe - literally - with that brutal hit seven years ago, Belichick could very well be some team's defensive coordinator today. ....

Dear Senator Specter, With all due respect, but given your abysmal failures over the last 40 years of not being able to find yourself a real job, can you please leave our sports alone until after the off season? Or does your fragile ego require that you get in the way on the biggest day of the season so that it is about YOU and not the game? Why have you confused public service with a career of helping to destroy our republic at the expense of satisfying your pathetic self existence? What is it about this potential story that...

OFFICIAL FR SUPER BOWL XLII LIVE THREAD NEW YORK GIANTS VS NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS Sunday February 3, 2008 At University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, AZ 6:17PM ET TV Network: FOX

You're rooting for the Patriots to lose. I don't blame you. If they weren't my team, I'd probably be rooting against them too. I understand your dislike. The boredom of perfection. The unsporting offensive onslaught. The records broken. That cover boy with the dimples at quarterback. Spygate. Really, when you look closely, what's to like? But I come from a different place. I remember the first Patriots championship appearance. It was January 1964 and I was nine years old. The Pats suffered a 51-10 blowout....

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (CNS) -- Mayor Ted Young of Waterloo sees a link between the success of the New York Giants and St. Mary Parish in his Seneca County village. He and Tom Coughlin, the Giants' head coach, are 1960 graduates of the parish grade school. Young believes Coughlin's Catholic-school upbringing helped shape his coaching achievements in college and the National Football League. "I think it played a large part. It sets your life values, and your values are set very early on," Young said in an interview with the Catholic Courier, newspaper of the Rochester Diocese. Young noted that he...

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Super Bowl fever is sweeping New York. But it was more a case of sweeping up on the New York Giants charter flight Monday. Minutes before the Giants were to take off from Newark-Liberty Airport for Phoenix and Super Bowl XLII, rookie cornerback Aaron Ross threw up - the sixth Giants player bitten by the flu bug. "We've got to hope that that's the end of it," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said after arrival in Arizona. "Hopefully it won't cost anyone any practice time this week out here." Three Giants, including starting fullback Madison Hedgecock, missed practice...

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Associated Press PHOENIX — Tom Brady was back where he belongs Monday, behind center for the New England Patriots' first practice session of Super Bowl week. The NFL's Most Valuable Player missed three practices last week with a tender right ankle, which was taped for Monday's training at Arizona State in nearby Tempe. According to the Chicago Tribune's Dan Pompei, the designated pool reporter, the star quarterback appeared to have a slight limp but participated in all phases of practice, including jogging the length of the field twice at the end of drills. Coach Bill Belichick, as usual, declined to...

GREEN BAY, Wis. - The bone-chilling cold couldn't stop the white-hot New York Giants tonight and neither could the Green Bay Packers, a crushing holding penalty or two missed fourth-quarter field goals. In one of the more unlikely runs to the Super Bowl in NFL history, the Giants overcame all kinds of obstacles to capture the NFC championship game with a 23-20 overtime win at frigid Lambeau Field. The Giants, who entered the playoffs as a 10-6 wild card, won their 10th straight road game when kicker Lawrence Tynes made up for his two fourth-quarter misses with a 47-yard field...

OFFICIAL FR NFL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SUNDAY LIVE THREAD JANUARY 20TH, 2008 AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME @ 3:00PM ET - CBS NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME @ 6:30PM ET - FOX

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - With one mighty heave, Tom Brady and Randy Moss took care of the record books. Now it's down to business for the unbeaten New England Patriots: stamping themselves as the greatest team in NFL history. The Patriots completed a perfect if somewhat joyless journey through the regular season Saturday night, finishing with a remarkable 16-0 record following a thrilling 38-35 comeback victory over the New York Giants. New England became the first NFL team since the 1972 Dolphins to win every game on the schedule, and that one was only 14-0. This victory required a...

Will the Patriots make history tonight and go 16-0? The game takes place in the Meadowlands, but playing on the road has not stopped the Patriots this year. Will the Hillary Curse affect the Giants? Has Hillary always been a Giants fan? Is John Kerry's favorite player Randy Brady? We shall find out the answers soon. 8:15 Eastern on CBS and NBC.

League announces that game, in which New England could be the first NFL team ever to go 16-0, will now be available to every TV viewer in the country. NEW YORK (AP) -- The New England Patriots' shot at history Saturday night will be available to every television viewer in the country after months of wrangling. Their game against the New York Giants, in which the Patriots could become the first NFL team to go 16-0 in the regular season, was originally scheduled to be shown only on the NFL Network. Fewer than 40 percent of the nation's homes with...

The Giants will announce at 5 p.m. today that Barry Bonds will not return next season, ending his career in San Francisco after 15 remarkable seasons. Bonds upstaged the Giants on his Web site, with the following entry: "This journal will be one of my last entries as a San Francisco Giant. Yesterday, I was told by the Giants that they will not be bringing me back for the 2008 season," Bonds wrote. "During the conversation with Peter Magowan, I was told that my play this year far exceeded any expectations the Giants had, but that the organization decided this...

Approaching the end of our study of Giants in the Earth, we have discovered so far that our ancient history is not quite what he have been taught in school — or even in Sunday School. From very ancient times, giants have played a dominant role in Earth's history, determining the fate of nations, and even of mankind itself. Yet, our schools have reduced the critical role of the giants to that of a fairytale, lumping them in with religion, folklore, mythology, and everything else that does not fit their sterile secular worldview. And even the church, once the champion...

For an awful lot of people who don’t include Barry Bonds, the moment he turned on the Washington Nationals’ Mike Bacsik’s full-count, 84 mph fastball and launched it into the right center field seats Tuesday night, it was a moment to ponder whether baseball has a new all-time home run leader but not necessarily a new all-time home run champion. “Now that Bonds has No. 756 in the bank,” wrote Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com, within what must have seemed moments after the crowd in the seats dove for the ball, “most folks outside San Francisco wish he would just pack...

February 26, 2007 -- Giants star Amani Toomer is splitting with his wife, claiming she not only reneged on a pact to have kids with the veteran wide receiver but went so far as to abort four pregnancies, according to bombshell court papers. Toomer has sued to annul his marriage to Dr. Yola Dabrowski, who won't get a dime if a judge upholds Toomer's argument that she committed "fraud" when they wed. She is seeking a divorce. The divorce trial is set to begin tomorrow in Hudson County, N.J., Family Court. Toomer, 32, alleges his wife refused to have the...

Hornets hit France and could reach Britain By Peter Allen in Paris Last Updated: 2:40am GMT 21/02/2007 Swarms of giant hornets renowned for their vicious stings and skill at massacring honeybees have settled in France. And there are now so many of the insects that entomologists fear it will just be a matter of time before they cross to Britain. A hornets nest Global warming has largely been blamed for the survival and spread of the Asian Hornet, Vespa velutina, which is thought to have arrived in France from the Far East in a consignment of Chinese pottery in late...

Giants fans may have been able to see Tiki Barber in Big Blue's huddle for another season, if not for the physical beating he received playing under head coach Tom Coughlin. Barber, speaking after yesterday's press conference that formally announced his three-year broadcasting contract with NBC, implied that Coughlin has problems relating to players on the team, and that it was an "act of God" that the physical demands the coach placed on him did not result in a serious injury. "Coach Coughlin is very hard-nosed, and I didn't get a lot of time off, couldn't sit down and rest...

Barry Bonds gave the San Francisco Giants the right to terminate his $15.8 million, one-year contract if he is indicted. The unusual provision, included in the deal that was completed Monday night, protects the team in case Bonds is charged in the federal government's steroids investigation. Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, is in a California federal prison because he has refused to testify whether Bonds committed perjury when he told a 2003 grand jury he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. As part of the agreement, if Bonds is indicted the Giants have the right to terminate it under two sections...

<p>HOUSTON (AP) -- Chris Brown, a third baseman who played six seasons in the majors in the 1980s, died Tuesday, nearly a month after he was burned in a fire at his home outside Houston. He was 45.</p> <p>He died at Memorial Hermann Hospital. An autopsy has been performed but the cause of death is still pending, said Beverly Begay, a spokeswoman for the Harris County medical examiner's office.</p>

BALCO founder Victor Conte bragged to an associate that Barry Bonds had intimate knowledge of the designer steroids he received from the Bay Area company, and that the Giants slugger took an active interest in what the substances contained, ESPN The Magazine has learned. The disclosure comes to light amid reports that Patrick Arnold, the Illinois chemist who is scheduled to report to federal prison next week for his part in the steroid conspiracy, has made the same admission to a media outlet. The admission appears to contradict Bonds' sworn testimony before a grand jury in 2004. In a report...

MARGARET RIVER, Australia (Reuters) - The waves have been nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building. Australian surfer Alex Cater, 25, has been chasing giant waves for the past five years and knows only too well the agony and ecstasy of what they call tow-in surfing, where a surfer is whipped by jet ski into giant waves bigger than most tsunamis. "If you don't have a bit of fear then you shouldn't be out there," said Cater. "When...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Standing on the practice field, Ernie Accorsi turned and pointed to a patch in the New York skyline less than 5 miles away. "They used to be there," the Giants general manager said. "We could see them every day." As the fifth anniversary nears of the World Trade Center attacks, Accorsi can still see the towers where thousands perished. And he has spent the past five years living with a secret. “ She has sent me pictures every step of the way. She gives me little color pictures, class pictures from school. I have watched her...

Eagles beating Baltimore 3-0... Giants jump out early over Chiefs 7-0... WHO SHALL WIN?

NEW YORK – Tiki Barber and Jonathan Tisch have been leaders in their respective fields for many years. They broke new ground on Wednesday night when they became the first active player and team owner to jointly interview the commissioner of a major professional sports league in a public forum. Barber, the Giants’ record-setting running back, and Tisch, the team’s treasurer, spoke with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue for 90 minutes at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Approximately 600 people attended the event. Barber and Tisch queried Tagliabue on a wide range of subjects, including the commissioner’s childhood, his desire...

Having a father who played in the NFL was great, and it must be even better for kids who are old enough to enjoy it. For me personally, I was only three years old when my father Archie retired, so I really don't remember him playing at all. What I do remember is that in the years after he retired, he did the radio call on Saints home games. Every week, he would take my two brothers and me to the games, along with one of my brother's friends. We'd get there around 9 or 10 a.m. and roam around...

Yes Babe you are #3

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Giants completed their rookie minicamp Monday with former George Mason basketball star Jai Lewis lined up at left tackle. For the moment, that's where he stays. But stay tuned. There's been talk of Lewis as a long snapper. And there's always the possibility that he goes back to tight end, a position he played in high school. That, by the way, is the last time Lewis played football, which makes his move to the NFL -- how shall we say this -- intriguing. It's a bold experiment by the Giants, who were sufficiently...

(AP) PHILADELPHIA -- Barry Bonds is heading home, one behind the Babe. Bonds hit his 713th homer Sunday night, moving within one of tying Babe Ruth for second place on baseball's career list. The San Francisco Giants' slugger hit a mammoth shot in the sixth inning off Philadelphia right-hander Jon Lieber, sending a 2-1 pitch off the facade of the right-field upper deck during a 9-5 loss to the Phillies. "They tell me that's the way the Babe used to hit them," Giants manager Felipe Alou said. Bonds' fifth homer of the season was estimated at 450 feet, one of...

NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Beginning in 1998 with injections in his buttocks of Winstrol, a powerful steroid, Barry Bonds took a wide array of performance-enhancing drugs over at least five seasons in a massive doping regimen that grew more sophisticated as the years went on, according to Game of Shadows, a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters at the forefront of reporting on the BALCO steroid distribution scandal. The authors, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, describe in sometimes day-to-day, drug-by-drug detail how often and how deeply Bonds engaged in the persistent doping. For instance, the authors write that...

NEW YORK - Former Giants lineman Roy Simmons and celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred want an investigation into whether Simmons was denied access to the Super Bowl media center because he is gay and HIV positive. Simmons and Allred held a news conference outside NFL headquarters Thursday before delivering a letter to the league asking it to look into why Simmons wasn't granted a media pass. Simmons requested a credential for the center Feb. 2, three days before the Super Bowl. He also asked for two tickets for the game, which the Pittsburgh Steelers won 21-10 over the Seattle Seahawks, and...

FORT SMITH, Arkansas (AP) -- A former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. vice chairman who was a protege of founder Sam Walton pleaded guilty to fraud and tax charges Tuesday, admitting that he stole money, gift cards and merchandise from the world's largest retailer. Tom Coughlin, 57, faces a maximum of 28 years in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return. He also could be fined $1.35 million. The judge ordered a presentencing report that will take up to 14 weeks to prepare. Wal-Mart lawyers referred Coughlin to federal prosecutors...

In a game crucial to both teams, the Chiefs and Giants will rely on their star running backs (5 ET, CBS). Earlier, the Patriots routed the Bucs 28-0 to win the AFC East.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The Giants and Jets today took another step toward building a new jointly owned stadium next door to their existing home when Giants Stadium LLC and Jets Development LLC jointly submitted a preliminary Master Site Plan for the New Meadowlands Stadium and its surroundings to the New Jersey Sports Authority. > VIEW SELECT RENDERINGS FROM THE JOINT PROPOSAL The stadium, which is expected to seat approximately 80,000 people, will be the centerpiece of one of the most innovative and memorable spectator environments in professional sports. The parties continue to work on design and financing details for...

PHILADELPHIA -- They first met eight years ago, when the world was young and their knees and shoulders didn't ache nearly so much. On Sunday, Giants left defensive end Michael Strahan and Eagles right offensive tackle Jon Runyan meet for the 13th time. It is a classic, cosmic collision featuring an extremely irresistible force and a thoroughly immovable object. The Giants lead the NFC East with a surprising 8-4 record, while Philadelphia, the defending NFC champion, is struggling at 5-7 and is coming off a disturbing 42-0 home loss to the Seahawks. For these two proud men, however, records don't...

NEW YORK (Nov. 15, 2005) -- Robert Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants and a civic leader in New York City for several decades, died of brain cancer. He was 79. Tisch died at his home, a family publicist said. Three weeks ago on Oct. 25, the Giants' other co-owner, Wellington Mara, also died of cancer. Wellington Mara was the son of team founder Timothy J. Mara. Tisch bought 50 percent of the Giants in 1991 from Tim Mara, Wellington Mara's nephew, not long after the Giants beat Buffalo in the Super Bowl. He also was U.S. postmaster general...

I'm sure by now you and everyone else in the football world is tired of hearing about Terrell Owens. Believe me, I'm tired of talking about it. But when I think of this situation, I can't help but be reminded that in this day and age, "bad" behavior is still often rewarded in the end. Whatever happened to the good old days when older players kept the young ones in check? When a rookie came into the game and veterans taught them respect by having them do things like pick up laundry bags or sing at the training table or...