AFC South

Tyson Takes a Trip to Bountiful; Imelda Dominates Here Lies Love; Midler Meddles as Sue Mengers

Where there's a will...

Jets to Usher in Youth Movement With 35-Year-Old, Once-Retired QB

Just when you think it can't get any weirder in Gang Green land... The Jets recently cut linebacker Bart Scott (age 32), defensive end Calvin Pace (also age 32), DB Eric Smith (age 29) and OT Jason Smith (26). You figure with the first three it's a youth movement thing, since they are past what wou ... More >>

Jets Lose, Suck, But Not Quite Badly Enough for Tebow Time

Here's the situation: The Jets have two running backs in Shonn Greene and Joe McKnight, both of whom are better at returning kicks than running the ball, even though Shonn Greene doesn't return kicks. Santonio Holmes and Stephen Hill are injured, so the Jets are down to two wide receivers, Jeremy Ke ... More >>

The Most Outrageous Film Of The Year

Trailer trash Texans double cross each other in Killer Joe, the William Friedkin-directed film of the Tracy Letts play which brings skanking, shooting, and sex with fried chicken parts onto the big screen with unapologetic candor and dark humor. Whether you and your date like the film or not, you w ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax

Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend

Get Peyton Manning? Repeat the Favre Farce?

You know how you can tell when sports rumors are bullshit? You hear them when the season is over. Now, with the Giants stealing all the thunder as they face off against Green Bay in the second round of the playoffs, the Jets' rumor mill is desperate to find someone to blame for the team's 8-8 season ... More >>

Beyoncé Gives Birth; Wild Card Blowouts; Second New Hampshire GOP Debate

Last night, Beyoncé Knowles gave birth to her and Jay-Z's child, Ivy Blue Carter. The Daily News reports the baby girl was born in Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side in a private wing and that "hospital workers placed tape over security cameras and are forcing employees to turn in cell phon ... More >>

Eli Manning's Christmas Present to the Ryans

If you're not a fan of bluster and braggadocio, you have to admire Eli Manning, and you have to appreciate what he's done over the last two weeks to make life better for fans not only in the New York area but around the rest of the NFL as well. What Eli has done, in successive weeks, is shoot down ... More >>

Rick Perry's Texas Fantasyland

Rick Perry's Texas is a job-makin', low-taxin' oasis of economic growth. It's also a fantasy.

The Jets' Key? Start Fast, for Starters

Do you want to know if this is really going to be the Jets' year? Here's your clue. It's not whether they beat the Jacksonville Jags this Sunday. It's not even whether or not they beat the point spread — 9½ as we go to press, which strikes us as a lot for any NFL team. What is the real ... More >>

Football's First Sunday: A Guide

​If you are reading this, you are not watching football. You may have it on, but you aren't watching it, letting the pigskinny goodness seep into your every pore. From today until the Super Bowl, your Sundays are reserved for America's favorite bloodsport. No more late brunches, no more flea m ... More >>

Bubba Smith, Huge Guy On and Off Gridiron, Found Dead at 66

Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith died yesterday in his home in Los Angeles at age 66 and took an awful lot of history with him. There were two primary reasons why Bubba Smith became such a folk hero while still in college, at Michigan State. The first is that the '65-'66 Spartans were the first major c ... More >>

Super and Not-So-Super Bowls: Allen Barra Ranks all 44 Previous Big Games from Worst to First

​While we wait for this Sunday's showdown between the Steelers and the Packers, we're feeling nostalgic for the big games of our past. We've been spoiled lately with some pretty exciting Super Bowls. But we remember a time not so long ago when the ultimate championship tended to be something ... More >>

Is It Time to Say Bill Belichick and Tom Brady Are Overrated?

​Beli-choke? I've always thought that a large part of what they call the Sports Illustrated "jinx" is simply faulty analysis. For instance, the cover of last week's issue of SI featured New England's 325-pound offensive tackle, Vince Wilfork, and a story by Peter King on "why New England W ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Remains in Critical Condition After Shooting; Gunman May Not Have Acted Alone (Weekend Links)

A vigil for Giffords last night. (via AP)​ Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition this morning after yesterday's attack in Tucson. Six people died, including a 9-year-old girl and a federal judge, and 13 were wounded. In a press conference last night, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik ... More >>

Jets Will Whip the Colts Tomorrow. Unless They Don't.

​Trying to predict what's going to happen in tomorrow night's Jets-Colts game is, well, kind of like trying to predict the New York Jets during the regular season. Which team is going to show up? The team that averaged a whopping 29.1 points in 12 games this year or the team that was held with ... More >>

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got off their duffs?

Jets Still Proving to be the Team of the Future

​When the Jets ended last season by losing to the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC championship game, their fans had at least one big consolation: the Jets, it was assumed, were the team of the future. Now, eleven months later, it seems they still are the team of the future. To paraphrase Clemenc ... More >>

Mark Sanchez Puts an Exclamation Point on the Jets Season

​As we suggested Wednesday, Mark Sanchez's NFL passer rating at the time, 80.5, good for only 24th best in the league, didn't begin to reflect how good he is. As Sanchez demonstrated in today's breathtaking 30-27 win over the Houston Texans, he should no longer by judged by his potential. He' ... More >>

Jets and Giants: Forget that First Week!

​What a difference a week makes. When the Jets-Ravens game was over last Monday night, the cry was that Rex Ryan was just another guy with a big mouth who had let his team get distracted by the lure of reality TV while Giants coach Tom Coughlin was the quiet, confident leader content with the ... More >>

BOWLED OVER

The best bars for the big day

IT’S BLITZ

Really, the Jets should win this one

Why the Giants Shouldn't Be in the Super Bowl and Ways They Can Win It

If the Favre treatment doesn't stop Brady, maybe Jessica Simpson could?

Family Devalues

Three plays by white men track America's slipping standards

Jah Cure's True Reflections . . . A New Beginning

Reggae's cause célébre celebrates both his new record's release, and his own

A Good Sport Spoiled

New York gets a sweet-faced pro lacrosse team

Film

One Up, One Down

Both the Jets and Giants Turn Out to Be Giant Killers

Sports

Sports

Mono Afflicts NFL

Sports

Sack Cloths

Theater

Our Year in Sports

The Winners

2000 Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll Results

Pigskin Pioneers

Slow Racial Progress and a Cloud of Dust

Football: Change Your Look, Change Your Luck

A Bookie's Wild Week

Hanging Out With a Bookmaker on the Super Bowl, Betting's Biggest Event

A Century Of UNI Watch

Hit or Myth

Examining the Legends of the World of Sports

Sex and the Stadium

The Exile of Tommy Salami

Letters

Kent Graham's Giant Steps

Letters

The Good Fights

The Jets Take Offense

Gang green breaks a playoff rule of thumb

QB VII . . . VIII . . . IX . . .

Dousing Sparks