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According to Mike Francesca of WFAN radio, the Mets are close to signing Jason Bay , formally of the Boston Red Sox. The deal is pending a physical. Last season Bay hit .267 for the Red Sox with 36 home run and 119 RBI. He will be the Mets left fielder, and will likely bat fifth in the Mets order behind David Wright and Carlos Beltran. The Mets desperately needed a big bat in the outfield, and they finally got their man in Bay. The Mets initially offered a five year deal to Bay, and it appears that he has finally accepted.

Rex Ryan always finds a way to stick his foot into his own mouth. A day after the Jets were awarded a 29-15 victory by the Indianapolis Colts, the Jets coach tried to sell to the media that the Jets earned the victory . "We won the game," Ryan said. "We ended up doing what we had to do, whoever was in the Colts' jerseys. I think that there's very little credit that our football team's given, and that's unfortunate." Ryan feels that his team was not awarded the game, that they worked very hard to beat a team that basically gave up on the game. Ryan , like a lot of Jet fans, are giving crediblity to the idea that because the Jets were close, the team would have still found a way to win the game, even if Peyton Manning had played all 60 minutes. Ryan went on to say that the Jets victories over Tampa Bay and Carolina were equally impressive because both the Bucs and Panthers have played better lately. However, Ryan fails to realize that the Panthers benc...

Finally, the Mets have made a move this off-season. The Mets officially signed former Angles starter Kelvim Escobar to a one year deal, and, according to the Daily News , want the star crossed picther to become the Mets new set-up man. Escobar has pitched in only one game in two years, because of arm trouble, which he fits right in with the Mets, who spent more time at the ER than on the diamond in 2009. In 2007, Escobar was great for the Anaheim Angels winning 18 games. He was teammates with Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez during their years' at Anaheim, and now it appears that they will be the eighth and ninth inning for the Mets come 2010. Escobar is 85-74 with a 4.09 ERA in 202 games as a starter and 16-17 with 59 saves and a 4.44 ERA in 209 games as a reliever. Read More. This move does not improve the mood around the Mets, that the club has done nothing this off-season. They have yet to address gaping holes in the rotation, left field and first base, as well as questions abou...

As seen on Bleacher Report. As many have heard by now, the Indianapolis Colts are getting lambasted by the public for lying down against the New York Jets, by taking their starters out of game they were winning 15-10. The Jets took full advantage of the B-Colts, smacking around the both the teams' second string defense and offense to steal the victory. The win, or lack there of, by the Jets puts Gang Green in prime position to get into the playoffs. Here is my take on the fiasco. Should the Jets be proud that they are going to the postseason? This is not how a tea m would like to win a game. Sure, a win is a win, and if you root, or work, or play for the New York Jets, you take every win you can get. But when the greatest quarterback in the game is removed because Colts head coach Jim Caldwell is willing to treat the remaining games as preseason, you can't feel good about it. Head Coach Rex Ryan and the Jets didn't pump their chests after the game. They were extremely ...

PANTHERS 41 GIANTS 9 This is not how the Mara family envisioned the Giants would close out Giants Stadium forever on December 27, 2009. The Giants were completely embarrassed by the Carolina Panthers, as the Cats exposed the Giants for the frauds they are this year. The Panthers rolled up 416 yards on the Giants Swiss cheese defense, 206 coming from Jonathan Stewart, who started in place of the injured DeAngelo Williams. The tome was set by Stewart in the second quarter, when he broke through right tackle and dashed into the endzone for a 29-yard touchdown giving Carolina a 10-0 lead. Offensively the Giants never had an answer for the Panthers, four times the Giants went three and out, and twice they fumbled the ball away in the first half. Meanwhile, Matt Moore, (WHO?) Matt Moore ripped up the giants secondary. Half way through the second Moore hit a streaking Musin Muhammad for a 22 yard touchdown extending the Panthers lead to 17-0. Once the third quarter started, the Panthers kept ...

As seen on Bleacher Report.com. You better watch out! You better pout! You better cry, and I'm telling you why! Santa Minaya, and the Wilpon Elf's are coming to ruin your Christmas. In case you have been preoccupied with holiday shopping, family gatherings, caroling, and way too much egg nog, the Mets have found a way to make the retail economy look like the good ole surplus days of the 1990's. The Mets have done absolutely nothing this off-season, and I am counting the signings of R.A. Dickey and Henri Blanco. Once the disaster that was the 2009 season came to an end on Oct. 4, the Wilpons promised their fans that the Mets would do everything in their power to improve the club on the field. They even went on Mike Francesa's radio show on WFAN to proclaim that the Bernie Madoff fiasco that reportedly cost the team roughly $400 million would not curb their spending on potential big ticket free agents. Then the Mets went to Indianapolis with rumors swirling faste...

Believe in second chances? Well the Yankees most certainly do. The Yankees traded outfielder Melky Cabrera on Tuesday to the Atlanta Braves for right hander Javier Vazquez in a suprising move for the World Champions. In case you need to be reminded, Vazquez spent one mediocre season with the Bronx Bombers in 2004, when he went 14-10 with a 4. 91 ERA. He was best remembered for giving up a grand slam to Johnny Damon, then of the Red Sox, in game seven of the 2004 ALCS. Still, Vazquez is highly regarded to this day. Last season he went 15-10 with a 2.87 ERA with 238 strike outs with the Atlanta Braves. The Yankees believe that Vazquez has turned the corner and can be a servicable number three starter. As for Cabrera he was an average outfield at best. He never really fit in any outfield positon, although he had a propensity to play a decent center field. Cabrera had his moments, like a game winning homer against the Twins early in the regular season. He hit .274 with 13 homers and 68 RBI...

GIANTS 45 REDSKINS 12 How about that high powered Giants offense? Better yet, how about that Giants defense? On Monday night in Washington D.C. the Giants D finally stepped to the plate and delivered a needed home run. In a year, where the Giants have battled injuries to linebackers, safties and corner backs, as well as increased pressure from outside the orgainization to fire Defensive Coordinator Bill Sheridan, the Giants held the Redskins to just 12 points, the lowest total allowed since the Giants beat the Oakland Raiders 44-7 on October 11! The Giants harrassed Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell all night, sacking him five times, and picking him off twice. The Giants even managed to knock Campbell out of the game in the second quarter, although he did return after halftime. As for the Giants offense, they were spectacular. Eli Manning led the way with 268 yards passing and three touchdowns, which included a 23 yard TD to Derek Hagan, and a 25 yard pass to Mario Manningham. The Gi...

FALCONS 10 JETS 7 It's all over folks! When people look back at this 2009 season for the New York Jets, they will remember all of the missed opportunities that Gang Green had this year. Whether it be the two games against Miami, or the brutal losses to Buffalo and Jacksonville, this season has been full of disappointment. In a windy and chilly Giants Stadium, that was so cold, that you could watch your beer turn into a Popsicle, Mark Sanchez and the Jets went belly up against the Falcons. The game was marred by a series of hideous mistakes for Gang Green. Numerous times, the Jets had a chance to put this game away, and they failed to do so. Three times the Jets had an opportunity to kick a field goal, and all three times they found a way to screw it up, most notably the botched snap by Kellen Clemens that prevented kicker Jay Feely from kicking a chip-shot 19 yard field goal. Still the talk after the defeat was Mark Sanchez and the Jets D. To be fair to the Jets, their defense hel...

World Series MVP Hideki Matsui is no longer a member of the New York Yankees. Matsui whose six RBI in game six of the World Series won him the MVP award agreed to a one year $6.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Matsui, A.K.A. Godzilla, had a terrific 2009 season. He hit .274 with 28 homeruns and 90 RBI in his first year since missing time due to a knee injury the year before. Matsui didn't play the outfield at all in 2009. When the Yankees played in National League ballparks, he usually came up in pinch hitting situations. However, as a DH, Matsui is lethal. The Yankees will miss his powerful left handed swing for sure. His bat was a huge reason for the success of Alex Rodriguez and Mark Tiexiera. Matsui's uncanny ability to stroke baseballs to the short porch in right made him a home run threat for every at bat.

The New York Mets are in real trouble now. Before last July's trade deadline, there was a rumor that the Mets had rejected a trade proposal for Roy Halladay. That rumor turned out to be false, but the Mets missed their chance to get the best pitcher in the game next to Johan Santana. Instead, Roy Halladay will be a Philadelphia Phillie. In an explosive trade, the Phillies aquired Halladay, while sending Cliff Lee, who was brilliant in the postseason for Philadelphia to the Seattle Mariners. The Phillies, in turn, would send Phillies outfielder Michael Taylor, Phillies catching prospect Travis d'Arnaud and a Phils pitcher -- either Kyle Drabek or J.A. Happ to Toronto. Halladay won 17 games last year for Toronto, but more impressivley struck out 208 batters, and holds 49 complete games in his career. Halladay pitched to a 2.79 ERA in the American League, and it is fair to say that he will be even better in the NL, where the lineups are not as volatile. According to ESPN, Hallada...

Well, John Lackey will not be a New York Met after all. For the past month since the season ended, rumors swirled that Angels right hander John Lackey would sign with the Mets, Yankees, Rangers, or re-sign with the Angels, but instead the Red Sox turned out to be the real player for him. The Red Sox signed Lackey to a five year, $85 million deal, where he will make roughly $16 million per season. Lackey returned from elbow inflimation to win 11 games for the Angels, pitching to a 3.83 ERA. Lackey is 102-71 in his career. He will give the Red Sox a formidable rotation of Josh Beckett, Jon Lester, and Lackey, which will make things very difficult for the World Champion Yankees in the AL East. Meanwhile, the Mets were left without ever offering, or negotiating with a pitcher, many thought the team should have pursued this off-season.

JETS 26 BUCCANEERS 3 This one was ugly! Really ugly! Not only was the Jets offense unable to take advantage of great field position, Kellen Clemens looked God awful in relief of Mark Sanchez, in the emergency start for the injured quarterback. Clemens lacked good control of his passes, was inaccurate, and it was pretty clear that the Jets coaching staff didn't trust Clemens, as the Jets ran the ball 42 times, and even used Brad Smith multiple times at quarterback on gadget plays. The only reason why the Jets won this game was their superior defense, which smacked around the even more pathetic Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-12). The Jets didn't surrender a first down to Tampa in the entire first half, sacked rookie quarterback Josh Freeman three times, and picked him off three times. On the opening play of the game, Freeman was picked off by David Harris to set the Jets up nicely at the Bucs 30. But, the Jets played it conservative, running the ball three times to set up the field goal...

Mark Sanchez's right knee is not getting any better. After missing practice both Monday and Tuesday due to the sprained knee that he injured while diving for a first down in last Thursday's 19-13 victory against the Buffalo Bills, Sanchez will sit out Sunday's game at Tampa Bay. Coach Rex Ryan and the medical staff felt that Sanchez would not be doing himself, nor the team, any favors if he played through the injury. This means that Kellen Clemens will start against the 1-11 Buccaneers. Clemens has eight starts in his career, all in 2007, when he was put in charge of the team after Eric Mangini grew tired of Chad Pennington and a 1-7 start to that season. Clemens was average at best, he didn't light the scoreboard up, and didn't leave coaches confident that he could lead the team into the future. That is one reason why Brett Favre was brought in to quarterback the team last season, and one reason why Sanchez was drafted at the start of 2009.

A little more then a month since capturing their 27th World Championship, the Yankees are right back at work trying to build a team that can repeat as Champions a year from now. In an off-season where GM Brian Cashman declared that the team would not spend as much as they did last winter, $400 million worth for A.J. Burnett, C.C. Sabathia and Mark Texiera, the Yankees are indeed willing to spend some big bucks nonetheless. First the Bombers pulled off a three team trade with the Detroit Tigers and Arizona Diamondbacks , that will bring center fielder Curtis Granderson to the Bronx. Granderson is a better option than free agent Johnny Damon, because of his age, 29, and because of his ability to play excellent defense, and still hit the ball with power. Granderson hit 30 home runs in 2009 in spacious Comerica Park in Detroit. Plus, the trade give the Yankees flexibility to move the out-of-position Melky Cabrera, who is a dreadful center fielder to either left field, or better yet package...

GIANTS 31 COWBOYS 24 So much for being dead on Thanksgiving. The Giants are alive and well after beating the Dallas Cowboys 31-24 at Giants Stadium on Sunday, a win that puts the Giants just a game out of first place behind Dallas and Philadelphia. The Giants will gear up for a huge game next Sunday night against the Eagles, that could go a long way in determining who is in first place in the NFC East. The Giants didn't play great in this game. They were down 10-0, and by night's end yielded 392 yards through the air to Tony Romo, and watched Jason Witten roll up 154 yards and Mile Austion 104 yards receiving. Sure there were problems, but the Giants had more big plays than Dallas. First it was Eli Manning's desperate flip to Kevin Boss in the backfield. Manning was about to be sacked on the play, and just dumped the ball off to Boss. Boss streaked down the field for 16 yards and a first down. Three plays later, Manning hit Hakeem Nicks from 21 yards out to cut the Cowboys ...

JETS 19 BILLS 13 Two big stories come out of the Jets 19-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Thursday. 1) Darrelle Revis continues to play like a man out of his mind. Revis held wide receiver Terrell Owens to three catches for 31 yards, knocked down a handful of passes and hauled in the game clinching interception to seal the Jets victory. Revis has been outstanding all season long. He has shut down every top receiver to face his this year, whether it be Owens, Randy Moss, Steve Smith or Andre Johnson. Revis has done the job and should be a favorite to receive defensive MVP honors come years end. 2) Then there is the other headline. In an attempt the get a first down, Mark Sanchez went head first and dove for the marker in the third quarter. Apparently Sanchez injured his knee on this dive, and was remo ved from the game, never to return. This coming just days after Rex Ryan went out of his way to bring in Yankees manager Joe Girardi to teach the quarterback how to slide. Ryan was the...

With the Jets leading the Buffalo Bills 16-10 in the third quarter of their Thursday night game, Mark Sanchez pulled up on a double reverse to David Clowney. After handing the ball off to Clowney, Sanchez gingerly walked to the sideline, favoring the right knee he injured last Sunday against the Carolina Panthers. Sanchez was placed on top of a table, allowing doctors to stretch out the leg to see if there was any ligament or tendon damage. Sanchez walked off the field, not showing any pain, and into the club locker room where he was to be fitted for a brace for that right knee. Sanchez already has a brace on his left knee. Kellen Clemens is playing for the rest of the evening as the Jets quarterback. More later on Sanchez's status of course. At least Gang Green will have 11 days before their next game at Tampa Bay. So Sanchez's health will be a big story of the next couple of weeks.

As most already know, the New Jersey Nets have made history. They are the first team in NBA history to start the season 0-18! The Nets got blasted by the Dallas Mavericks 117-101 on Wednesday night, ending the reign of assistant coach Tom Barrise as head coach. Barrise went 0-2 in his two games as head man of the Nets, while Lawrence Frank lost the previous 16. Now it will be up to Kiki Vandeweghe to turn this thing around. This being a man who holds the title of General Manager in the Nets orgainization, and really doesn't do much as the GM, since it is Rod Thorn who picks, drafts, and signs all of the players. In short, Vandeweghe is a figure head, who needed something to do. He could have easily taken over as soon as Frank was fired, but decided not to become known as the guy who was coaching the first team to 0-18. Now he can coach them to 0-19 and beyond. This coming from a franchise that fully expects to move to Brooklyn, a project that has been delayed for over five years, ...

Here is one out of the "what-the-heck" category. Almost a month after celebrating his first World Series title as manager of the New York Yankees, Joe Girardi spent his December 1 afternoon tutoring Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez on how to slide. As ridiculous as it sounds, the Jets want Sanchez to learn to slide in front of charging defensive players when he is running in space for huge chunks of yards. Many a time this year has Sanchez tried to act like Earl Campbell and lead head first into oncoming tacklers. His biggest highlight coming in week three against Tennessee occurred when Sanchez tried to bulldoze his way past a linebacker for touchdown. Last week against Carolina, Sanchez led with his body twice and nearly got himself TKO'd with a knee injury. Girardi had Sanchez slide on a mat during the training session. Girardi later addressed the Jets as a team. Read more .

The inevitable is now reality in South Bend. The most publicized and highly anticipated firing of Charlie Weis from America's most popular college football team is a fete accompli. Weis was fired earlier today from the University of Notre Dame as its head football coach. Weis spent five tumultuous years with the Irish, culminated by a 6-6 season in 2009 with a group that some observers overrated as a team that could go 10-2. When Weis arrived in South Bend in 2004, he was an automatic hero turning Brady Quinn into a potential NFL super star prospect. However, Quinn has gone on to have an horrific career with the Cleveland Browns, while Weis struggled to find a decent replacement over the past three seasons. The Irish underachieved all season long as their defense failed to hold leads against Connecticut and Stanford at the end of the season that sealed Weis's fate. The Irish started 2009 at 6-2, but lost their last four games. It is not known whom the replacement will be, but ...

A day after the team was notified that quarterback Eli Manning suffered a stress reaction to his injured heal, the quarterback today denied that the injury is the cause of the team's horrific slump during the past month and a half. “ In the games, it doesn’t bother me, and I don’t think about it. This is not something I am overly concerned with,” Manning said. "It has been the same for probably the last three to four weeks; it’s nothing new. I can go out and practice and do all I need to do.” Manning doesn’t believe he would eventually need surgery on his foot. “It’s one of those things that time and rest is probably the biggest thing,” he said. “Having the weekend and the bye week and off week helped some. Time to rest it is helpful. It is not something I think will linger or bother me” ( Yahoo Sports ). Therefore, it looks like Manning, who is third on the active list for most consecutive starts behind his brother Peyton, and former Jets and current Vikings quarterback Bret...

More bad news for Big Blue: Just days after the team failed to get off the plane in Denver on Thanksgiving, it appears that quarterback Eli Manning is still hurting from that heel injury he suffered in Kansas City back in early October. Recalling that game, Manning appeared to hyperextend his calf when he threw a bomb down the sideline that fell incomplete. Manning had lept into the air and had come down badly. Doctors taped up his entire ankle and foot. Word at the time was that Manning suffered a heel injury and went on to play since that time. However, tonight we are learning more about Eli's injury. Read more. According to the A.P., Manning has developed a stress reaction in that same right foot which could lead to further injury and might possibly sideline him for a very long time. It is not a fracture but a reaction. According to the same story, the Giants may take the precaution and shut down Manning right now, ending his 2009 season in order to save the quarterback from fur...

The last time we saw a professional sports franchise lose its first 16 games of regular season play, the Detroit Lions set the NFL record for the worst NFL season ever last fall when they went 0-16 in 2008. Well, even though the NBA is an 82 game season, an 0-16 start was more then enough evidence for the Nets to fire long time Head Coach Lawrence Frank. Read more . Frank, who took over for Byron Scott in 2004, and helped lead the Nets to their second NBA finals appearance that year, has watched his team wane ever since. Frank compiled a record of 225-241 during his five plus years with the Nets and hasn't led this team to the playoffs since Jason Kidd was still the super star of the franchise. The Nets have been plain awful this year, losing key players, i.e. Devon Harris to injury, and have played uncompetitive basketball all year, leading to an 0-16 start. He was let go by Rod Thorn, the most overrated GM in basketball, early Sunday morning. Frank did not coach in the Nets Sunda...

JETS 17 PANTHERS 6 If anyway was expecting to see something encouraging in this game, if the Jets won, they better forget about it. Even though the Jets beat the Carolina Panthers 17-6, this afternoon at Giants Stadium, the Jets offense continued to looked inept with Mark Sanchez leading the way. If it were not for four interceptions by Jake Delhomme of the Carolina Panthers, the Jets probably wouldn't have won this one. On the opening drive of the day, the Panthers had chewed up the Jets defense with suburb running by DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart. The Panthers converted three first downs with those two, and it appeared that the duo of Williams and Stewart would become the headline of the day, then it all change. Delhomme heaved up a pass to Steve Smith that was deflected and intercepted by Darrell Revis, who turned right and went right down the sideline for a 67 yard interception return for a touchdown. Turnovers became the story of the day for the Panthers. Delhomme was...

STANFORD 45 NOTRE DAME 38 As Jimmy Clausin's hail marry was knocked down in the end zone by a couple of Standford defensive backs, the speculation that Notre Dame Head Coach Charlie Wies would be fired soon after the game, started to creep to reality. The Irish held a 31-20 lead in the third quarter, and Wies and his coaching staff, watched the Irish melt under the heavy feet of senior running back Toby Gerhart and the Stanford Cardinal by the score of 45-38. Even when the Irish put up one of the best offensive performances of the year, it was the defense, Wies' weakness as coach of this club since he took over in 2005, that did him in. As has been a pattern all year, the Irish blew a lead, and suffered a devastating lose. This one dropped the Irish to 6-6 on the year - an average team that will likely have no bowl appearance come December, leaving the Notre Dame Athletic Department to seriously consider firing Wies, if the decision hasn't been made already. The game was ex...

A day after Tiger Woods crashed into a tree and a fire hidrent, he and his wife Elin Nordegern are still unavailable to talk to police about that mysterious night. From what we know, Woods crashed near his home around 2:25 Friday morning. His wife alledgely used a golf club to break the window to get him out of the car. Woods was knocked out unconscious, and was sent to the hospital and relaeased Friday night. It is not known officially, if Woods and Elin were engaged in a fight prompting Woods to storm out of the house. However, there was a story from the National Enquirer rumoring that Woods had been texting, and seeing New York night club hostess Rachel Uctitel for several months. Perhaps, Mrs. Woods was a little pissed off? Perhaps there is more than meets the eye with the golf club that was used to "free" Tiger? Many rumors will likely be flying around online and in the news. Until both Tiger and Elin come and give us a full and complete story about the incident, we wil...

"Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to Yankee Stadium." Since 1951, Yankee fans have grown used to that call and many others from the voice of Bob Sheppard, whose announced on Friday that he would end his historic role as the voice of Yankee Stadium. Sheppard, 99, has not done a Yankees game since 2007, skipping all of 2008, which was the final year at the old Yankee Stadium, and the 2009 World Championship season that ended a couple weeks ago. Sheppard has been very ill since his last day as the Yankees P.A. announcer. He was replaced by Paul Olden who is the current Yankees P.A. announcer. Yankee fans will miss his voice, which many had termed the " voice of God. "

BRONCOS 26 GIANTS 6 As families across America got together to give thanks, celebrate good times, and cut the turkey, the New York Giants were getting cut like turkeys in Denver, Colorado. The Giants were uncompetitive in a 26-6 loss to the Broncos, as the offense mustered only 267 yards, with the running game totaling up to a measly 57 yards. Brandon Jacobs continued his God awful season with just 27 yards on 11 carries, while Danny (D.J.) Ware gained only 27 yards himself on four carries. The Giants have lost their ability to commit to the run, something that was a staple of the franchise over the previous two seasons that saw them win a Super Bowl, and capture an NFC East crown. The Giants avoided the run all night long, trying instead to play catch-up from the get go with the passing game. Unfortunately for Big Blue that prolific passing attack that was lethal against Atlanta couldn't get moving against Denver's usually porous secondary. Eli Manning was sacked three times,...

GIANTS 34 FALCONS 31 Wow! That was close. Desperate for a win, and holding onto a 31-17 lead late in the fourth quarter, the Giants almost choked it up again, as the Falcons stormed back to tie the game at 31 forcing overtime with Big Blue. This was not an easy game for the Giants. Eli Manning struggled to deal with the Falcons blitz early and often. First he fumbled a pass to put the Giants in a second and 23, and then he was picked off to kill the Giants first drive. It looked pretty bleak for the Giants, but Manning and his receivers tightened those chin straps, and started playing some serious ball. In the middle of the second quarter with the Falcons up 7-3, Manning hit Hakeem Nicks down the sideline for 30 yards to set Big Blue up in Falcon territory. Then, Manning hit Kevin Boss from 28 yards out to give the Giants a 10-7 lead. After Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan fumbled the ball into the hands of Osi Umineyora, the Giants started to put some distance between themselves and the ...

PATRIOTS 31 JETS 14 It appears that Rex Ryan may need a year's supply of kleenex, because after an uncompetitive showing against the New England Patriots, it is clear that Ryan's overhyped band of brothers are going nowhere but home this winter. At 4-6 the Jets can kiss goodbye to their playoff hopes, especially with quarterback Mark Sanchez showing little improvement. Once again, Sanchez was on center stage, throwing four more interceptions, as well as getting stripped for a fumble in New York's embarrassing 31-14 loss to the rival New England Patriots. In the first quarter, Sanchez threw the game away, literary, when he was picked off by Leigh Bodden, who went 53 yards for the touchdown to give the Patriots a 7-0 lead. Defensively, the Jets had no answer for Tom Brady and company. Even though Gang Green got two sacks on the Pro Bowl quarterback, Brady was calm and cool in the pocket for most of the day, picking apart the Jets secondary for 310 yards. He was helped by the...

As it turns out, it is the Buffalo Bills who will be the first team to fire its head coach. Dick Jauron is out in Buffalo, and he will be replaced by Perry Fewell on an interim basis. The firing of Jauron ends a period of mediocrity in Bills history. Jauron went 24-33 in his time with the Bills, including a dysfunctional 3-6 start to this season. Last year, when Buffalo underachieved to a 7-9 record, many thought that the Bills would fire Jauron after the 2008 season, but, he was give an extension, which was a huge suprise. Today, the Bills suprised us again with the firing, the first of what should be many to come this year. The question now, is where the Bills will go from here? Mike Shanahan, Bill Cowher, Jon Gruden, Mike Holmgren, and Tony Dungy are all big named coaches with Super Bowl rings who are available. The Bills should seriously consider hiring one of these men to lead this franchise, which has not been to a playoff game since 1999. MORE ON DICK JAURON...

JAGUARS 24 JETS 22 So much for Woody Johnson's proclamation on Saturday night that he believes his team can "absolutely" make it to the postseason. Maybe Johnson should stop sounding like a man desperate to sell seats in his new Jets/Giants Stadium, and more like an owner who is not satisfied with mediocrity. The Jets found manifold ways to shoot themselves in the proverbial foot in Sunday's 24-22 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in front of 78,000 comatose fans at Giants Stadium. Things looked ugly from the outset when Mark Sanchez threw an interception on the first snap of the game. The fans hadn't even settled in their seats by the time Sanchez started to screw things up for Gang Green. From there, the Jaguars pounded the Jets defense with a ton of Maurice Jones-Drew. Drew had five carries on the Jaguars opening possession, including a 33 yard touchdown run to give the Jags a fast 7-0 lead. The Jets offense was vanilla. They lucked out when the Jaguars on-side ...

Here is one out of the "what are they thinking" category, and of course, it comes from the Mets. Sure, the World Series victory for the Yankees is only a week old, but already MLB teams are gearing up for the 2010 season. The Mets need a major overhaul after the debacle that was the 2009 season. Already the Mets are rumored to be interested in free agent outfield Matt Holliday, which would give them a needed power bat in left field, a position of weakness in 2009. And they are rumored to be in the sweepstakes, yet again, for Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay. That is all good and fine, if the Mets can pull that off, however, it appears that the club is seriously considering signing Chone Figgins from the Angels. Figgins played third base for the Angels since taking over full time in 2004, and has proved to be an adept base stealer. However, it appears that the Mets intentions to acquire Figgins is for all the wrong reasons. One, Figgins is also being targeted by the Mets divisional ...