Favre’s confidence with playbook impresses

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - Brett Favre said the crash course he’s been taking almost since the moment the Jets traded for him Aug. 6 is about over.

“We’re not cramming, really,” said Favre, who from the beginning said learning the Jets’ playbook, with its…

Favre’s confidence with playbook growing

Brett Favre said the crash course he’s been taking almost since the moment the Jets traded for him Aug. 6 is about over.

“We’re not cramming, really,” said Favre, who from the beginning said learning the Jets’ playbook, with its foreign and complex…

NY baseball fans forced to go cold turkey

Keith Hernandez said he was “speechless,” but his body language spoke volumes.

As SNY’s Gary Cohen and Ron Darling talked Sunday about the end of the Mets, Hernandez shook his head, wiped his brow and appeared both bummed and burned.

“This one is a real…

Time for quarter grades

It’s a drone that is repeated over and over on the field and in the locker room.

“Play ‘em one at a time.”

No kidding?

The game of football, with its once a week schedule, lends itself to that one-at-a-time mentality, but in the NFL these days we’re…

Packers’ McCarthy says QB Rodgers has ‘every intention’ of playing through sprained shoulder

Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy says quarterback Aaron Rodgers sprained his shoulder but intends to play against Atlanta on Sunday.

Packers coaches will spend this week monitoring Rodgers’ progress in practice and preparing rookie backup Matt Flynn…

Instead of collapses, let’s talk clutch

This column is for all you miserable Mets fans out there.

When I was a little kid walking to school back in the the days when people let their little kids walk to school, I would complain all winter about how cold it was. And my mother, in an attempt…

Packers say QB Aaron Rodgers has ‘every intention’ of playing through sprained shoulder

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers intends to play against Atlanta on Sunday despite a sprained shoulder that his coaches will be watching closely in practice.

Packers coach Mike McCarthy and his assistants will spend this week monitoring…

Cardinals are no match for Brett Favre’s six-shooter

Brett Favre’s team-record-tying six touchdown passes Sunday reminded me of a school assignment at East Northport JHS in September of 1972. We were supposed to find a newspaper headline that was not designed to be taken literally, and would mean……

Smith Fined, Suspended a Game for Boldin Hit

Jets safety Eric Smith has been suspended for one game and fined $50,000 for what the NFL called a flagrant violation of player safety rules for his helmet-to-helmet hit on Arizona wide receiver Anquan Boldin in the last minute of the Jets’ 56-35 victory at the Meadowlands on Sunday.
The suspension will sideline Smith for the Jets’ game against Cincinnati on Sunday, Oct. 12, following this wee…

Jet fuel: Favre’s 6 TD passes

Brett Favre set a career high and also tied Joe Namath’s Jets mark with six touchdown passes, including three to Laveranues Coles, and New York took advantage of a series of mistakes by Arizona in a big second quarter before holding on to beat the…

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