Jamie Malanowski

New York Giants

GO GIANTS!

It’s a lucky guy who has a friend like Paul Lindstrom, who shares his Giants pre-season tickets. Thanks, pal. It was a typically inconsistent pre=season game, but it was great to get out, and to spend time with Paul and his daughter Nadia, and to see the Giants prevail over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Above: Paul …

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THE GIANTS WIN!

I must say, I still can’t quite believe that the New York Giants won the Super Bowl yesterday. All season long, they looked like a good team that could go toe-to-toe with anybody. During the regular season, they beat such other good teams as the Eagles, Cowboys and Patriots, and narrowly lost to other good …

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THE TOP 10 OF 2008

A highly eclectic, hardly systematic accounting of what I liked best in 2008: 1.) THE ELECTION. What a tremendous drama. The characters were strong and well-drawn–too-good-to-be-true Barack Obama, the redoubtable Hillary Clinton, the indomitable and gracious John McCain, and the brilliantly imagined Sarah Palin, among others–plus the well-plotted series of upsets and comebacks, culminating in …

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BIG BLUE!

Schooled in football in Baltimore during the era of the peerless Unitas, I am properly reverential towards the special attributes of the great quarterbacks. And yet, over the years, it has been defensive players that I have found especially exciting–Rick Volk and Bobby Boyd, Mike Curtis, Jack Lambert and Jack Ham, Ronnie Lott, and the …

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