Antonio Pierce said he will play against the Cleveland Browns even though he’s missed the last two days of practice with an injured quad. He’s officially listed as questionable, although he’s expected to practice Saturday.

Much has been made in recent days about the emergence of Eli Manning as a world-class quarterback, and how the Giants were right, after all is said and done, to mortgage the ranch and make the trade for him on draft-day 2004.

Now it’s Manning, very much his own man, who will take the 4-0 Giants into Cleveland for the Monday night game this week, and by all accounts, he has turned into the blue-chip performer several talent judges predicted he would be.

He was taken as the first overall selection by San Diego, despite guarantees from him and his father (Archie) and his agent (Tom Condon) that he would not even consider playing there. They never said why; perhaps the shoddiness of the team’s organization they believed at the time was a factor, perhaps being in…

A few Cleveland Browns decided to share their personal scouting report on Brandon Jacobs this week. And the less-than-flattering analysis is one the Giants and Jacobs will be reciting all the way up to their Monday night game in Cleveland.

Plaxico Burress is back and his teammates are happy to have him. And if you think his 2-week suspension and unrepentant press conference were a distraction to the Giants’ juggernaut, well, think again.

Bill Cowher coached Plaxico Burress for five years in Pittsburgh, and he has mostly fond memories of their time together. But he also knows the truth about the enigmatic receiver.

The Super Bowl champion New York Giants came into the season with a chip on their shoulders, and they still have it — even with some people now calling them the NFL’s best team after a 4-0 start. “We just laugh at it because those are the same people who, two months ago, 69 days ago, were saying the Giants weren’t going to be the best team in the NFC, wouldn’t even make the division, wouldn’t…

Eli Manning will never again have to hear that the Giants should have gone for Ben Roethlisberger, who has his own Super Bowl ring, or Philip Rivers. If Manning stays healthy he will end up the best quarterback the Giants have ever had.

Much of the rest of the NFL looked at the NFC East in the offseason and saw depth and talent.

Look at that picture. He can’t be a bad guy. He puts on his receiving gloves to pick up his child, so he can get…

Eli Manning earned some more rave reviews for his career-best performance on Sunday against the Seahawks, even from his demanding head coach.