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• Burress charged, but story's tangled
Just four days ago, the biggest question surrounding Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was whether his strained hamstring would allow him to play last Sunday.

• Giants bracing for mob scene
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- As an injured player, Plaxico Burress is required by the team to go to Giants Stadium today for treatment -- something his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said last night he would do.

• Sharing spirit sparks Seahawks
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Following Saturday evening's 83-79 win at Bucknell, his team's fourth in a row, Wagner coach Mike Deane was asked by a Pennsylvania sports writer why the Seahawks were playing so well, given their poor performance just two weeks earlier in a loss to the Bison's Patriot League rival Lafayette.

• Gholston fails to apply heat
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- On Sunday, the Jets needed rookie linebacker Vernon Gholston's pass-rush ability in the worst way. Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler repeatedly scrambled to make plays and the Jets couldn't lay a hand on him.

• Jets know they let one slip away
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- As the Jets sorted through the wreckage of their 34-17 loss to the Broncos one day later, they lamented the fact that with a win they could've had a virtual stranglehold on the AFC East title -- a two-game lead with four to play.

• NEC honors Seahawk pair
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Wagner College senior defensive end Robert Brown has been named to the All-Northeast Conference first team, it was announced yesterday.

• No arbitration for Pettitte, Abreu
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Not wanting to risk that either Andy Pettitte or Bobby Abreu would accept arbitration and be awarded a contract of $16 million or more for 2009, the Yankees declined to offer arbitration to those two players or any of their other free agents.

• Seahawks edge Colgate in OT, 58-56
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

• Youth hoops: JCC nips St. Rita's
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Chris Caraballo and Paul DeMarco combined for 27 points as the JCC edged St. Rita's 39-37 in a Catholic Youth Organization JV A game yesterday.

• Giants look distraction-proof
LANDOVER, Md. -- Barry Cofield simply wanted to rest in his downtown Washington hotel room, so he shut off the ringer on his phone.

• Jets don't look so Super
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Jets had a front-row seat to see the player being touted as the NFL's newest gunslinger -- Bronco quarterback Jay Cutler. The Jets are buying the hype today.

• AXA Financial cops East title, 7-0
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- AXA Financial's defense sacked One-On-One/Beer Garden QB Steve Mirasola 10 times yesterday en route to a 7-0 victory in the Staten Island Touch Tackle League East division championship game.

• Burress to surrender today
While his teammates were in Landover, Md., adding another win to the Giants' impressive 11-1 season, wide receiver Plaxico Burress was holed up in his Totowa, N.J., mansion, the eye of a weekend-long storm of uncertainty and unresolved circumstances.

• Damage II cops SITTL West crown
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Damage II QB Tyrone Landrum Jr. only threw eight passes, completing four, but that's because the human highlight film didn't need to throw more than that.

• Dolphin roster still mighty short
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The College of Staten Island will likely be looking at another short roster when the CUNY Conference season begins tomorrow night at 7:30 against visiting City Tech at the Sports and Recreation Center.

• Dolphins open CUNY play; Seahawks host Colgate
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The College of Staten Island is warming up -- four straight wins -- and that can't be good news for winless City Tech, which visits the Sports and Recreation Center tomorrow night at 5.

• Hillis finds the holes in soft Jet defense
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The fantasy geeks may have been on to him a couple weeks ago, but the Jets found out yesterday that Denver's fifth-string running back is pretty good.

• Jacobs understands Burress mindset
LANDOVER, Md. -- Brandon Jacobs isn't excusing Plaxico Burress for carrying a loaded gun into a nightclub. Nor will he condone Burress' having a weapon in Manhattan without a New York gun license -- if that's indeed the case.

• McAlarney fills ND's void
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame has a photograph in its locker room of last year's team posing after beating Northern Illinois to break the Joyce Center record of 24 straight home wins. It's about to be replaced.

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• St. Clare's, OLHC post Varsity triumphs
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Joe Lewis and Dante Landi combined for 16 points as St. Clare's beat Holy Child 38-15 in Catholic Youth Organization Varsity A play yesterday.

• Youth football: A weekend split in inaugural Island All-Star series
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Staten Island Boys' Football League won two of three All-Star games over the Staten Island Pee Wee League yesterday, taking the 11-year-old game 19-0 and the 13s contest 27-0.