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.
Eli Manning might want to do himself a favor today and ask to borrow Tom Brady's thesaurus so he can look up the meaning of the word "Elite." It isn't so much that the Jets' Mark Sanchez, struggling as he did for...
August 30, 2011 12:00 AMAt the end of the night tonight, the Giants need to be as healthy as possible for the Redskins on Sept. 11, and the Jets need to be as healthy as possible for the Cowboys that night. But, in the meantime, both...
August 29, 2011 12:00 AM
The NFL and Giants stared into the eye of Hurricane Irene last night and thankfully blinked. Just because they built it, doesn't mean they should play it. The announcement yesterday that there will be no mass...
August 27, 2011 12:00 AMInside the Timex Performance Center offices where "Talk Is Cheap, Play The Game'' is the mantra, across from what is now MetLife Stadium, live sleeping Giants who have been awakened by Rex Ryan. The Giants have won...
August 26, 2011 12:00 AMYou are a New York Football Giants fan and you are cursing the football gods today. You lost starting cornerback Terrell Thomas to a season-ending torn right ACL last night following a freak collision with freakish...
August 23, 2011 12:00 AMPlaxico Burress had already caught a pair of 20-yard passes from Mark Sanchez, and now it was time for him to announce to the football world that he was back. Not all the way back, of course. Too soon for that. But...
August 22, 2011 1:06 AM
We can only wonder how many times Plaxico Burress has imagined this moment, when he walks into a stadium he has seen only in his dreams, only from a distance, of years and of miles, when he hears old, familiar sounds,...
August 21, 2011 12:46 AMBeauty is in the eye of the beholder, and Jets coach Rex Ryan thinks Mark Sanchez is an elite quarterback to behold. “This guy has won four playoff games in two years — all on the road,” Ryan said yesterday. “I think...
August 19, 2011 1:31 AM
Plaxico Burress still can reach to the sky and pluck footballs out of the rarefied air with hands that act as Venus flytraps. He still is an imposing presence who towers over cornerbacks. The Jets are hoping and praying...
August 18, 2011 4:15 AMOsi Umenyiora does not get a ride up the Canyon of Heroes for ending his self-imposed lockout yesterday. What he does get is a chance to write the final chapter of his Giants career the way he wants it written. It’s...
August 16, 2011 2:11 AM
For Jets fans, for a good part of America, Rex Ryan is still the show for the Jets' preseason opener tonight in Houston against the Texans. Big and bold with a team he is forever convinced is big and bad enough to...
August 15, 2011 12:00 AM
Rex Ryan is no Bill Belichick, and Mark Sanchez is no Tom Brady. But that didn’t stop Derrick Mason from wanting to run through a green-and-white brick wall for Ryan so he could catch passes from Sanchez. The memory of...
August 14, 2011 2:24 AM
We interrupt the hysteria and widespread panic running rampant among Giants fans during their offseason of Eagles-fueled hell to point out a shining, rising star in the Blue Blue sky, brought to you by general manager...
August 13, 2011 12:00 AMAt Purdue, they showed Dustin Keller clips of Dallas Clark. When the Jets made Keller a surprise first-round pick in 2008, they dreamed he would one day be their Dallas Clark. Now it is time for Dustin Keller...
August 12, 2011 12:00 AMThe voracious Eagles last night fired a vicious Shot Heard Round East Rutherford and Round the NFC East by signing Eli Manning security blanket Steve Smith — only one day after the Giants examined his surgically...
August 11, 2011 2:12 AM
The sky is falling on top of the New York Football Giants. Even if the Eagles hadn't boldly swooped down on Nnamdi Asomugha, Cullen Jenkins, Jason Babin and Ronnie Brown, and whipped their manaical fan base into a...
August 08, 2011 12:00 AM
Justin Tuck was wearing a white T-shirt with Giants in blue across his chest yesterday. He wears the shirt proudly. The question for the defensive captain of the Giants: Is Osi Umenyiora as proud to wear the jersey...
August 07, 2011 12:00 AM
As they still were mourning the departure of Jerricho Cotchery, another old familiar face returned to the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center for a farewell press conference to officially retire as a Jet. And the more...
August 06, 2011 12:00 AM
Here came the Jets, with all their swagger, with all their irrepressible, defiant braggadocio, with all their pomp and circumstance, with Plaxico Burress in green shorts and a gray T-shirt over a long-sleeved white one...
August 05, 2011 12:00 AM
He is the littlest Jet with a heart as big as Rex Ryan before lap-band surgery, and now he sat high atop Heinz Field, in the press box, with his crutches, 60 minutes from a Super Bowl for the third straight January,...
August 04, 2011 1:34 AM
Michael Strahan implores the Giants today to be fair to his old friend Osi Umenyiora. “I’m not saying bow down to every demand and need,” Strahan told The Post last night. “Just be fair. “Do something! Just don’t say...
August 03, 2011 2:23 AMHere is the plea today to the Giants: Don't trade Osi Umenyiora. If you plan on challenging for Super Bowl XVLI and winning it, you need to resolve this Umenyiora mess and get him back in blue 72. Trading...
August 02, 2011 12:00 AM
Plaxico Burress is a Jet today and shot Giants fans in the heart for two undeniable reasons: The Jets showed him the guaranteed money. And they showed him Rex Ryan. And very much in that order. And yet, once the...
August 01, 2011 2:27 AM
They came out of their meeting rooms because they knew he was in the building for his sitdown with coach Tom Coughlin, and they wanted to welcome back a long-lost friend, a friend who lost his way and lost more than...
July 31, 2011 12:00 AM
By all accounts, Plaxico Burress scored a touchdown last night. What once seemed like a crazy long shot -- a Burress reunion with Tom Coughlin's Giants -- has turned into a good shot. A good shot to do it right...
July 30, 2011 12:00 AM
Two men in a room. One 33 days from his 65th birthday, a football coach with old-fashioned values who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the world of the modern-day athlete, a man the late, great Wellington...
July 29, 2011 2:03 AM
The battle lines appear to be drawn now in the Plaxico Burress Sweepstakes. Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning versus Mike Tomlin and Ben Roethlisberger. The Steelers, the team that drafted Burress, against the Giants,...
July 28, 2011 12:00 AMThe long road back from cancer, from the longest of all fourth-and-longs, from what was supposed to be the death of his football life and maybe worse than that, leads to East Rutherford this morning for Mark Herzlich, a...
July 27, 2011 1:47 AM
AS NFL free agents begin their long-awaited gold rush today, the franchises who play Moneyball will be the big winners, as always. But NFL insiders acknowledge another reality on the eve of the wildest, wackiest free...
July 26, 2011 3:13 AM
The Post's Steve Serby sat down with NFL agent Joel Segal, president of Lagardere Unlimited Football, whose impressive list of clients includes Michael Vick, Santonio Holmes, Randy Moss, Chris Johnson, Reggie Bush,...
July 26, 2011 12:00 AM
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