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NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT The good news for the Jets is Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith can't play much worse than they did on Wednesday. The bad news, of course, is that this qualifies as good news on May 22. Sanchez and Smith...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT Quarterback David Garrard confirmed reports he is retiring, telling USA Today, "I'm done, the knee is only going to get worse - my decision had nothing to do with them drafting Geno...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT The true evidence of whether or not Geno Smith is cut out to be a franchise quarterback -- and a franchise quarterback in the New York market -- won't begin to appear for at least several...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT It wouldn't be the New York Jets without a controversy at quarterback. At Friday's rookie minicamp, coach Rex Ryan said quarterback Geno Smith looked fine. Smith gave himself an F. Ryan'...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT One of the most underwhelming quarterback battles in the NFL got a whole lot more interesting when the Jets selected West Virginia's Geno Smith in the second round of the draft. The...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT One of the most underwhelming quarterback battles in the NFL got a whole lot more interesting last Friday night, when the Jets selected West Virginia's Geno Smith in the second round of...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT When asked Thursday night why he didn't draft an offensive player -- or two -- with the Jets' two first-round picks, new general manager John Idzik reminded his listeners that the Jets...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT Much has been made about Rex Ryan and how the defensive-minded head coach appears to be a lame duck entering the penultimate year of his contact under new general manager John Idzik. But...

|TV SPORTS|  |SUNDAY| Women’s College Basketball--Georgetown at Penn State, 11 a.m. (Big 10 Network); South Dakota at Kansas State, 2 p.m. (FXSP) NFL Football--Baltimore Ravens at Washington Redskins, Noon (CBS); Chicago Bears at Minnesota...

|TV SPORTS| NFL Football--Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders, 7 p.m. (NFL Network) NBA Basketball--New York Knicks at Miami Heat, 7 p.m. (TNT); Dallas Mavericks at Phoenix Suns, 9:30 p.m. (TNT) Men’s College Basketball--Long Beach State at...

Everyone up here spent Sunday distracted by Hurricane Sandy. The Jets, at least, should have been more concerned about the gathering storm that is their AFC East rival. For just the second time in the last nine years, the Dolphins (4-3) have a winning...

Three Things on the Miami Dolphins' wildly successful, remarkably easy 30-9 win over the New York Jets: Thing 1: Monday I posted a blog looking at the Dolphins' special teams under Darren Rizzi and suggesting that could be the difference in this...