A Post writer since 1976, Steve Serby became the paper’s NFL columnist in 1983. A former Jets, Mets, Yankees, Nets, and Islanders beat writer, he’s covered Super Bowls, World Series, Final Fours, ABA & NBA playoffs, U.S. Open tennis, boxing, golf, horse racing and hockey. His book subjects have been Lawrence Taylor and Brett Favre. His Sunday feature, "Steve Serby’s Q&A;," also garnered him an Emmy nomination.
ONE of these days, it won't be a safety named Michael Griffin waiting for Mark Sanchez at the goal line, it will be someone bigger and meaner and tougher, someone like Steelers linebacker James Harrison or the Chargers...
12:07 PMOver the years, the motto Play like a Jet has meant plenty of things, and not all of them good. At his first team meeting, coach Rex Ryan stood front and center and announced that Play like a Jet would signify the new...
September 27, 2009 2:13 AMTHE HOTLINE to Las Vegas takes you inside Week 3 of the NFL season, telling bettors what direction the lines are moving, and by how much. BRONCOS-RAIDERS Broncos -1: The most dramatic move of the week, as the...
September 26, 2009 12:00 AM
LEON Washington is the best bargain in football. During the Jets running back's 40-yard kickoff return against the Patriots, Lethal Leon put a "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" move on safety Brandon Meriweather. "Leon...
September 25, 2009 12:00 AMIT is a bloodthirsty, attack defense that destroys you physically and mentally, if not emotionally, with both brain and brawn, and opposing quarterbacks are advised to hide the women and children in their lives. A...
September 22, 2009 12:00 AM
REX RYAN'S Jets had talked the talk, but they weren't going to walk the walk unless their kid quarterback could stop crawling. Now the second half began and here came Mark Sanchez, the precocious rookie who is not...
September 21, 2009 12:00 AM
JUST before one o’clock, inside a stadium that promises to sound as deafening as the mouths-that-have-roared team that will be playing inside it, Rex Ryan lets the dogs out against Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the...
September 20, 2009 1:58 AM
THE Jets promise they are ready to back up all their tough talk, from Rex Ryan on down. A tough town deserves a tough team, and here come the Jets. Here is nose tackle Kris Jenkins, the 360-pound enforcer, describing...
September 18, 2009 5:00 AMANTONIO Pierce is the brains of Big Blue's operation, and today, because Defense Wins Championships will forever be the mantra of the New York Football Giants, he lets us into his huddle with a bird's-eye view of the...
September 15, 2009 12:00 AM
NBC's Tiki Barber had just interviewed Eli Manning outside the Giants locker room after Giants 23, Redskins 17. Now Barber was standing inside Giants Stadium, in the end zone he had frequented so many times, getting...
September 14, 2009 12:00 AM
This was the day eight years ago when Tom Coughlin needed a miracle. This was the day terror struck and Coughlin, the coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars on that fateful morning, didn't have a playbook to tell him how to...
September 11, 2009 12:00 AMAt 1 o'clock, Sept. 27 in side the Linc, in The City of Brotherly Love, the disgraced Falcon who is now an Eagle will get to spread his wings and fly again. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, convinced that Michael Vick is...
September 04, 2009 12:00 AMYOU'RE the kid quarterback of the New York Jets. Your head coach, Rex Ryan, just handed you the keys to his new team, to Woody Johnson's franchise, even after a rather unceremonious welcome-to-the-NFL moment Monday...
August 30, 2009 3:08 AMBALTIMORE -- A not-so-funny thing happened to Mark Sanchez on his way to a coronation. He was crowned. Not by Rex Ryan as the winner of the Jets' starting quarterback job. By the defense Ryan molded into...
August 25, 2009 2:44 AMTHIS was David Tyree's first game since Super Bowl XLII, so it was the first time Giants fans had seen him since Catch 42 against Rodney Harrison and the Patriots, and against his own helmet. But there was no magic...
August 18, 2009 1:45 AMMARK Sanchez by first- round knockout. JETS BLOG If Rex Ryan were forced at gunpoint to decide on his Opening Day quarterback today, Sanchez would be his man. Sanchez (3-4, 88 yards) led the Jets to a...
August 15, 2009 3:32 AMMICHAEL Vick comes back now not as The Lethal Weapon that he was once for the Falcons before Bad Newz Kennels, he comes back to the NFL now, hopefully, as a better man and a stronger man whose ultimate victory will...
August 14, 2009 3:39 AMTHANKS for the Super Bowl, kid. Now go get another one. Eli Manning, the $97.5 Million Man, is about to make his biggest score, and in the embarrassment-of-riches world of the NFL, he has earned every penny of it....
August 06, 2009 2:13 AMCORTLAND -- There were maybe 800 fans braving the rain, some of them under umbrellas, some under green-and-white plastic fire helmets, some to catch the first glimpse of the new franchise quarterback, Mark Sanchez ......
August 01, 2009 4:05 AMCORTLAND -- They have sure been talking the talk, these Jets, and when training camp starts today, they get to show us whether they can walk the walk. REX RYAN TRANSCRIPT "I've talked it and we've always walked...
July 31, 2009 2:04 AMIT IS a little after 11 p.m. Friday night, which means Katie Mahar, 15, could go outside and play if she so desired. It is some 19 hours after Yankee Stadium was magically transformed into her field of dreams, when...
July 26, 2009 3:34 AMMARK Sanchez and the Jets still need a receiver. Plaxico Burress needs a team. Memo to Jets: Pass. Giants, Jets: Day-two picks Complete NFL draft selections Pass until we find out whether the guy has to do...
April 27, 2009 2:40 AMPROFESSOR Serby grades the NFL Draft: THE A TEAMS JETS: Mark Sanchez was a dare-to-be-great move. Banger Shonn Greene replaces Thomas Jones in 2010. Giants, Jets: Day-two picks Complete NFL draft selections...
April 27, 2009 2:40 AMINSIDE the tension- packed war room at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, N.J., Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum's heart pounded furiously. Old friend Eric Mangini, picking fifth with the Browns at...
April 26, 2009 2:28 AMIT WAS Bill Parcells who delivered the last franchise quarterback, Chad Pennington, to the Jets nine long years ago. And sometime after 4 p.m. today, inside an anxiety-filled war room at the Atlantic Health Jets...
April 25, 2009 2:14 AMMOST Jets fans I know crave Mark Sanchez at tomorrow's NFL Draft, so here's a mock draft that will cater to my long-suffering friends. My new, enterprising, two-pronged strategy to get to the bottom of Super...
April 24, 2009 2:55 AMJETS GM Mike Tannenbaum made a bold move when he traded for Brett Favre last August and now he needs to make another one. Tannenbaum cannot sit still with the 17th pick of the NFL Draft on April 25 and wait for his...
April 15, 2009 3:25 AMDETROIT -- You can be one of the great college basketball players of your era, and never experience a dream moment when you climb a ladder, seemingly to heaven, scissors in hand, and peer down at faces smiling at you...
April 07, 2009 2:43 AMDETROIT -- These kinds of sports stories are all too rare, but when we are lucky enough to witness them, they captivate us, they stretch the limits of our imagination, and we never forget how powerful they can be, and...
April 06, 2009 2:22 AMAT A time when Plaxico Burress should have been grateful that the Giants did not unceremoniously dump him and shout good riddance to the Big Blue heavens, they went as far as keeping the door open to Giants Stadium....
April 04, 2009 2:57 AM
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