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Good thing the New York Giants' defense didn't believe its own recent press clippings. After the June retirement of future Hall of Fame defensive end Michael Strahan and the August season-ending knee injury to fellow stud DE Osi Umenyiora, the Giants went from defendi ...

The New York Giants spent a good portion of the offseason reminding everyone that they won the Super Bowl in February. When you consider the lack of attention the Giants received after shocking the 18-0 New England Patriots to close the 2007-08 NFL season, rightly so. ...

The defending Super Bowl champs lost defensive end Osi Umenyiora for the 2008 season after he tore the lateral meniscus in his left knee in a 10-7 preseason loss to the Jets over the weekend. Umenyiora will have season-ending surgery Tuesday. Commentary: The first tho ...

Contract talks have gone south between the Super Bowl champions and wide receiver Plaxico Burress. Now, it seems the Giants are getting back through Plax what they traded away when they dealt tight end Jeremy Shockey. But not in a good way. Ralph Vacciano of the New ...

Pro Football Reference released its All-Franchise teams of the NFC East, and Giants outside linebacker Lawrence Taylor is by far the best to have set foot in the division. According to PFR's Approximate Value Method, Taylor scored a 139, easily beating ex-Dallas runn ...

The Giants agreed to trade tight end Jeremy Shockey to the Saints for second- and fifth-round draft picks in 2009. According to Fox Sports' Jay Glazer, the deal was the same the Saints offered the Giants before the 2008 draft, but it was turned down back then. Comment ...

The Giants came to terms with free-agent offensive tackle Shane Olivea on a one-year contract, pending a physical, NFL.com reported Thursday. Olivea served a four-game suspension at the end of last season when he was with the Chargers. He appealed the suspension, sayi ...

The defending Super Bowl champion Giants came to terms with three of their seven draft picks Tuesday, giving them four rookies under contract. Signing deals Tuesday were fourth-round linebacker Bryan Kehl (BYU), fifth-round LB Jonathan Goff (Vanderbilt) and sixth-roun ...

The Giants have signed guard Chris Snee to a six-year extension that will make him one of the five highest-paid guards in the NFL. The dollar amount of the deal was not immediately released. Snee started all 20 games for the Super Bowl champion Giants last season. The ...

The combination of Jeremy Shockey's arrival at minicamp and Plaxico Burress's absence has Giants fans weighing the difference between the two. Along with that, the onset of Giants minicamp has been highlighted by multiple injuries, according to Ralph Vacchiano of the ...

The Giants' official team forum mentions the retirement of team sack king Michael Strahan, but fans asks a more pertinent question. When will the Giants retire Strahan's No. 92 jersey? Strahan had 141.5 sacks in a Giants uniform, more than first-ballot Hall of Fame ...

Giants DE Michael Strahan will announce his retirement from the NFL at a press conference set for 11:30 a.m. ET Tuesday. Strahan, the NFL's single-season regular-season record holder for sacks -- 22.5 in 2001 -- walks away from a $4 million contract, not to mention a ...

New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey on Saturday hinted that he might not attend the team's mandatory minicamp, which begins Wednesday. Commentary: "I might go to see my mother in Texas. I have no idea," said Shockey. Then he even went a step further to acknowle ...

The Star-Ledger is reporting Monday that free-agent DE Renaldo Wynn has signed a one-year deal with the Giants. Wynn, who turns 34 at the start of the regular season, played 12 games with the Saints last season and notched 3.5 sacks. He played the first four years of ...

The New York Giants became the sweethearts of the sports world in early February, and rightly so. After all, it's not often a team architects one of the greatest upsets in NFL history, which the Giants did with their 17-14 Super Bowl XXXXII shocker against the then-und ...

New York Giants rookies Mario Manningham and Andre Woodson were injured at minicamp on Saturday. Commentary: Manningham suffered a hip flexor injury and Woodson pulled a quad muscle a short time later. Manningham, a wide receiver, indicated that he ran his pattern wro ...

Giants LT David Diehl signed a two-year extension that will keep him with the Super Bowl champions through 2013, the team announced Wednesday. Diehl was instrumental in the Giants' unexpected championship season of 2007. He has played both guard and tackle positions i ...

Greatest upset in Super Bowl history? Just where does the New York Giants' dramatic victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII rank? After all, the Giants were a 14-point underdog, and they were taking on the first team to reach the Super Bowl with a perf ...

At this time one short year ago, fans of the New York Giants were hoping that head coach Tom Coughlin's days at the team's helm were winding down. Although Coughlin was coming off his second straight playoff season after his third year as New York's coach, Big Blue fini ...

With the divisional round invariably comes at least one surprise, and this season we got two, as the suddenly upstart New York Giants offed the Cowboys to the chagrin of few outside of Terrell Owens and the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. The swell thing ab ...