By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – Another week, another loss for the New York Giants. Fans are wondering: “is it time to press the panic button?” Through a quarter of this season, the Giants, with the firepower they seem have on paper, have been downright disappointing. They’re bottom feeding in the…
Week 4 Keys To Victory: New Orleans Saints @ New York GIANTS
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.– “[The win over the Texans] definitely builds confidence in playing and so, when you get a win, you definitely try to keep that going into the next week and just keep rolling.” Those words were spoken to me by Alec Ogletree, New York Giants defensive captain, who…
Week 3 Recap: New York Giants Rebound on Second Consecutive Trip to Texas
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. –A game in which your punter does not take the field until 3 minutes into the third quarter is a good game. The New York Giants, in their second trip to Texas in as many weeks, are breathing a sigh of relief after defeating the Houston…
Week 3 Keys to Victory: NEW YORK GIANTS @ HOUSTON TEXANS
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Sunday, the New York Giants (0-2) and the Houston Texas (0-2) will face off at 1pm from NRG Stadium in Texas. The good news: one team has to win this game. Both teams are experiencing a less-than-favorable start (to put it lightly) and both desperately need a…
Week 2 Recap: New York Giants Fail to Recover from Dallas Cowboys’ First Drive TKO
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – On Sunday Night Football, the Dallas Cowboys issued the New York Giants a technical knockout on the third play of the game: a 64-yard touchdown strike from quarterback Dak Prescott to wide receiver Tavon Austin. Giants’ cornerback Janoris Jenkins slipped in coverage and that was…
Week 2 Keys to Victory: NEW YORK GIANTS @ DALLAS COWBOYS
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- This week, the New York Giants (0-1) and the Dallas Cowboys (0-1) will be locked in an old-fashioned NFC East battle under the bright lights of the retractable dome at AT&T Stadium on the national stage: Sunday Night Football. KEYS TO A GIANTS VICTORY 1. Offensive…
NEW YORK GIANTS Week 1 Recap: Already Time to Supplant Flowers, Omameh
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – If you were paying attention in any shape or form to the New York Giants’ week one matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars, you saw, on display, the same old problem had once again plagued Big Blue: the offensive line. Granted, 80% of its personnel is…
Livin’ the “Dream”: With Princeton Alum Blake Dietrick, Atlanta Secures #2 Seed in WNBA Playoffs
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK – Atlanta Dream’s Blake Dietrick, at the Westchester County Center, was playing 941 miles away from the Dream’s home base, 178 miles away from her hometown, but only 80 miles from Princeton University’s Jadwin Gymnasium. It was in that gym that Dietrick (class of ’15)…
“Just Play”: New Jersey’s Tobin Heath Poised to Seize the World By Storm… Again
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BASKING RIDGE, N.J.- Speaking with me at her alma mater, Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Tobin Heath was beaming as two hundred campers were learning the game of soccer behind us. Last year, Heath and I discussed the importance of unstructured play in an athlete’s development….
A Bad Dream: New York Liberty Fall to Atlanta on Fan Appreciation Day
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.- Today, the New York Liberty wrapped up their 2018 home campaign with a 86-77 loss to the Atlanta Dream at the Westchester County Center. The Liberty moved from the World’s Most Famous arena, Madison Square Garden, to the arena in White Plains at the beginning of…
Nicki Minaj, QUEEN of Sports Lyrics
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- A Nicki Minaj post is on a professional sports website. Why? I’ve been saying it for years– Nicki Minaj must be huge sports fan: she includes a sports reference in almost every song and every verse she records. Queen, released at midnight, does not disappoint the sports fan….
Commissioner Calls Aces’ Bluff, Possibly Folding Playoff Hopes
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – A professional basketball team looks to board a plane to play a game across the country. The flight’s stopover destination delays the outbound flight twice, causing the team to chase z’s on the airport terminal chairs. The flight the team boards will arrive late, approximately…
