Here are some stories from around the NFL today. I've given you a few stories on the Bills playing some of their home games in Toronto , and how some are fighting it, saying it will mean the death of the CFL. Today in the National Post, Leslie...

to thank the New York Giants for preventing a Boston sweep of the three major sports championships.     Thank you, Justin Tuck (via media.2theadvocate.com ) If you are a Yankees/Knicks (ugh) fan like myself, thank the New...

Chris Cooley of the Washington Redskins is now right there with Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards as my all-time favorite athlete bloggers. This gem from his Cooley Zone blog is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. It's an...

A few Giants notes for a Tuesday. Former GM Ernie Accorsi has been hired as a consultant by the NFL. His first duty will be to co-chair a new general managers advisory committee. Teams are being held to an 80-player roster limit for...

ESPN's Hannah Storm interviews Eli, Peyton and Archie Manning for Father's Day.

In an ominous-sounding article Sunday, Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News quotes a Giants official as saying "more people than you know" want new contracts. There are also hints in the article that some players have been hitting the...

Is a trade the only way out of this Jeremy Shockey mess? Shockey apparently had a shouting match with GM Jerry Reese during mini-camp, and now coach Tom Coughlin is referring to him simply as "an issue." Ralph Vacchiano said yesterday in his...

Rosey Brown with 60% of the vote and Jumbo Elliott with 33% were overwhelming choices for the offensive tackle slots on our Big Blue View All-Time Giants Team. We have reached the point in our selection of players where we will begin discussing...

I know, I know, its Thursday, but we figured we would give the Strahan/Shockey/ and then Plax stories another day. Here are some non-Strahan stories making the rounds this week: Another future Hall of Famer is hanging them up. The Baltimore...

To put it mildly, this is hardly the ideal way to start  a Super Bowl title defense. In less than a week, the Giants have dealt with the retirement of Michael Strahan , the unhappy rantings of disgruntled Jeremy Shockey , and now the...

Plaxico Burress has arrived at Giants mini-camp, but has informed the coaching staff he will not practice without a new contract Also, some Giant staffers will have to wait a little long for their Super Bowl rings, theirs were stolen.

As promised last night, I have an interview with Star-Ledger Giants' beat writer Mike Garafolo for you today. I really appreciate Mike's taking the time to do with the explosion of news around the Giants lately. I hope you enjoy it. BBV: How...

Mike Garafolo of the Star-Ledger is the man. From Garafolo's ' Ledger on Giants ' blog here is video of Michael Strahan speaking during his retirement press conference today. Following that is Coach Tom Coughlin speaking about Strahan. I was...

I realize we're into Michael Strahan overkill here, but I have to toss this out there. ESPN's 'Hashmarks' blog has ranked the top pass rushers of all time, with Deacon Jones No. 1 and Strahan 6th. Lawrence Taylor is fourth on the list, the...

OK, so Michael Strahan has retired. Now what? Do the Giants move Mathias Kiwanuka back to defensive end, or use Osi Umenyiora, Justin Tuck, Renaldo Wynn and whoever else proves worthy? The players are apparently already lobbying for Kiwi to go...