In Shift, New Jersey Offers to Pay Debt on Giants Stadium, to Pave Way for New One
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In a major policy shift, state officials are proposing to pay the $117 million in remaining debt on Giants Stadium.
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has turned to its football team for a morale boost as it faces budget woes.
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The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) is set to be paying for its showpiece Millennium Stadium for at least another 35 years under the terms of a debt re-financing package announced.
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The New York Giants, the Patriots' opponent in their final exhibition game, once shared the Polo Grounds with their baseball namesakes, who now reside in San Francisco. Last night, the two teams turned Gillette Stadium into the Proving Grounds for NFL hopefuls.
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Injuries are the part of the game most controlled by fate, and the Giants, who were fraught with injuries last season, look more susceptible than usual.
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After accumulating more than $500,000 in fines during his preseason holdout, Michael Strahan returns to the Giants and hopes to play on opening day.
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The NFL players union wants major additions to the revenue pool used to determine player salaries, making negotiations to extend the current contract more difficult than in the past.
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A rugby club is given the backing for a housing development to pay for a move to new stadium.
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The Giants are not exactly fearing their game in Philadelphia on this first Sunday of the N.F.L. season. In many ways, they relish it.
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The &quot;future&quot; is getting a chance to revive the presently struggling New York Giants. Two other teams also decided it was time for a change at quarterback, but the Buffalo Bills are not one of them.
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony  Williams will try to get financing for a Major League Baseball  stadium back on the city council agenda next week after the  council added a deal-breaking provision to the original bill,  the mayor's spokesman said on Thursday.
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Fearing adverse impacts from traffic and sewage, New Jersey officials want an additional environmental study of the proposed Manhattan football stadium for the New York Jets.
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When a regional phone company in Arkansas paid to slap its name on Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, the price seemed steep. Was it really worth $6.2 million for some signs on a building in a small city that got its first major league sports team just two years earlier? Naming rights were a growing business when the 10-year deal was struck ...
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Four years ago the New  York Giants went to great lengths to acquire Eli Manning,  believing the baby-faced quarterback was the right man to lead  them to the Super Bowl.
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However you calculate the costs, it is hard to envision what the $1.2 billion Yankee Stadium will look like.
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Like most of the relievers the Giants have signed to multiyear contracts, Jim Brower has a list of incentives built into the deal.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- If the Oakland Athletics make it all the way to the World Series, the Raiders may have to shift the dates of two home games.