[TS] Sports of The Times: A Tale of Honor and Intrigue Inside the Giants
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A new account of the career of Ernie Accorsi, the former Giants general manager, tells about a day that almost changed the history of both of New Yorkâs football teams.
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As much as the final score will be remembered, so, too, will the way the Giants managed to win a game that few expected them to even play.
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The New England Patriots completed a perfect regular season. But the Giants put up more of a fight than almost anyone imagined they would.
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Nine games and a 5-4 record is hardly enough time for players to build an everlasting loyalty to a quarterback. So the Giants were not torn into factions by yesterday&#39;s
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It was long ago, but Steve Grogan, Pete Brock, and Steve Nelson can't help but see the spitting image of the 1985 Patriots in this season's New York Giants.
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By NANCY ARMOUR The San Francisco Giants were in the thick of the pennant race in August 2002. And Blake Krikorian and his brother, Jason, were stuck at their office with no way to watch.
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By TOM CANAVAN EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Losing isn't the only thing contagious on the New York Giants these days.
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Games between the New York Yankees and  the Boston Red Sox have, for at least the last half-century,  attracted a media mob fascinated with every scrap of  information about the famous rivalry.
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The Giants, set to play the Patriots in the Super Bowl, came back to New York with their N.F.C. title to a restless city that loves a winner and knows how to profit from one.
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After spending a day with the old keyword page, and getting bored with it, I came up with a new way to look at news, something I've not tried before, that might be fun and/or useful http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html  Since it's likely to change again soon, here's a screen shot. How it works. Every hour, as usual, it does the nytimesriver scan. Every story is linked to in the database undern all the keywords it references. Then the report, in HTML, is prepared, with the keywords in the left column, and links to all the stories in the right colum. The list is sorted by number of references, the keywords with the most references appear at the top of the list.  So today, baseball is the top item, with 15 references. The teams, the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies, rank high. For some reason (heh) the Boston Red Sox don't appear, even though they're still in it, and the Yankees, even though they've been eliminated (yay!) are near the top at position 10.  It's another leaderboard! (Oh shit.) The stories age, and are removed after 24 hours. After all this is news, not olds.  If you have comments, post them under the screen shot, linked above. PS: Note that since the list just started up today, the initial stories, even though some are already 24 hours old, will remain in the queue until tomorrow morning at this time. So the list will be artificially fat today, it'll thin down tomorrow.
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The important thing is there are a lot of San Francisco Giants fans who are going to have a lot to tell their grandchildren someday.
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They were deep enough in the fourth quarter that you could forgive Giants fans for dreaming so openly. When their team went ahead with 8 1/2 minutes to go, you could also understand the urge to take back their turf.
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The San Francisco Giants will honor Barry Bonds' home run milestones and other achievements as they always have &#151; with great fanfare.
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So many angles. So many sub-plots. So much intrigue for a game pitting two non-winning teams holding one-way tickets to irrelevance.
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The Giants' victory transformed our perceptions of Eli Manning from the sensitive kid brother to an icon with his own unique place in NFL history.
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When the San Francisco Giants play baseball, slugger Barry Bonds and the other players are far from the only ones thinking about hitting home runs.
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With a burst of confidence borne of three playoff road victories, the Giants are pursuing respect as surely as the Patriots are pursuing immortality.