Mary Pilon

After Seau’s Death, Questions and Concern From Former Players

A little over a week since the news of Junior Seau’s suicide, we take a look at the impact it has had on pending litigation against the NFL and helmet maker Riddell, as well as the talk among his former teammates. 

Junior Seau's Community Recalls a Star Who Never Left

Bishop and I reporter further on Junior Seau’s last couple of years of life and the reaction to his death. 

Update in Saturday’s paper: Seau family decides to give brain for study. 

In Which Sean Combs Talks With Me About Football, Running and Curling

Todays Giants Parade: Tales of Crazed Fans

I spent today running around downtown mingling with Giants fans. They’re crazy, love blue. (Tweets here, reportage on the Fifth Down and here’s what went in Wednesday’s paper.)

But let us take a moment to consider this young lady as an MVP: 

But perhaps no fan was more committed than Cristina Buttler, a 17-year-old high school senior from Kings Park, N.Y., who said she boarded a 6:30 a.m. train into the city on crutches, her left leg in a boot from a track injury. She was joined by her parents, Walter and Claudia, and her best friend, 17-year-old Melanie Ritter, who also had an injured ankle. The four landed a spot on Broadway right along the parade route.

Wearing a Giants jersey and headband printed with the Giants logo and a camera hanging around her neck, Buttler said she was cold and her leg hurt. But not attending wasn’t an option, she said. “It’s the Giants,” she said. “How could I not come?”

Study Links Winning Football and Declining Grades

So the better the Duck football team performed, the worse the students — especially men — did academically, according to new research.