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Here’s what Bergfors is on pace for this season compared to what Gionta did last year for NJ:Gionta 2008-2009: 20G, 40 A, 60 PBergfors projected 2009-2010: 29 G, 29 A, 58 PThe price tag for Gionta for this campaign: $5 million. This game is just a tad more important than the Devils and the Flyers last night.The winner of tonight’s Giants-Eagles game will be in the driver’s seat for the NFC East Crown. Remarkably for the Giants, they are still right there with a playoff spot in their grasp. What will it take to replicate last week’s performance against Dallas A whole lot of desperation and a defensive effort like last week’s.The Giants held Dallas to 45 yards on the ground on 23 carries. Sure Tony Romo, passed for nearly 400 yards (a majority of those yards came with the Giants playing “Prevent D” in the last two drives) but with the running game ineffective, it made the Giants’ pass rush more effective than it had been in weeks This will be the key once again If they can stop LeSean McCoy and co. McNabb and the Eagles become even that more one-demensional.On Offense, Eli will have to improve on his shaky performances at Giants Stadium in December. The franchise QB is getting paid like one and must perform if the G-Men want to keep themselves in this race.

How about using targeting Kevin Boss and Travis Beckum a litlte more often Mike Garafolo of the Star Ledger wrote this past week that the Giants drafted Beckum for games like this, where Manning can get the ball out quick before the swirling winds of Giants Stadium can take it. Here’s what he said GM Jerry Reese said when they drafted him.“‘When the wind starts to swirl out here and it gets cold in November, December,” general manager Jerry Reese said of Beckum after the draft, “a shorter pass to a guy who can get open on the inside, a bigger target, will probably help our quarterback.’”Another nice game from Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw might help, too.There it is boys, breathe it in That’s the blueprint for victory tonight. Big J Out. This article is also featured on Sports Radio NY. Sacred territoryThere is no fighter in the UFC’s lightweight division capable of defeating B.J. Penn.It’s the same reality many of us accepted at UFC 100 when Georges St. Pierre steamrolled Thiago Alves and the same one many of us accepted long ago about Anderson Silva.It’s a pretty special notion when the UFC has a trio of champions with such an allure of greatness and last night was no different, as Penn outclassed top contender Diego Sanchez in virtually every facet of the fight game.Sanchez’s unorthodox fight preparations since his drop to lightweight have been well-documented; “YES” cartwheels and all.

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All the intensity and emotion in the world went out the window in practically 15 seconds when Penn rocked Sanchez in the fight’s opening moments.Surprisingly weathering the early storm, the next 23 minutes were all but academic for Diego, as Penn did whatever he pleased with the former welterweight Anything Sanchez threw, Penn had a more punishing counter. Sanchez even tried exhausting the same gameplan that Kenny Florian failed miserably at, in a bevy of feeble takedown attempts on the champion.Penn even broke out what may be the highest kick he’s even thrown in his UFC career, and most certainly made the best of it But in the end, it was the same feeling many of us left St. Pierre’s defenses against Jon Fitch and Alves with: The acceptance that this man’s reign is not ending anytime soon.When you ponder just who is next for Penn, the list is admittedly short. But more than nothing, there’s a crop that’s not so much developed enough, but realistically, can’t even sniff the level that Penn is fighting at these days.Gray Maynard and Frankie Edgar are the first two names that come to mind, but can anyone really make a compelling case as to how either of these two could upset Penn Maynard’s boxing is still largely underdeveloped, and while his top game has proven bullish, it’s nothing that is going to upend Penn over the course of a 25-minute period.Edgar looked nice in out-boxing a moronic, ill-equipped Sean Sherk in May, but doesn’t possess Penn’s power, precision and counterstriking abilities.

Dispatching of Maynard and Edgar appear to be the only roadblocks left in doing so and, much like Frank Mir and his quest for redemption, Penn just appears to be on a mission right now.A mission that won’t be jeopardized anytime soon. InevitableWith his 72-second throttling of Cheick Kongo last night, Frank Mir has inserted himself back into discussions for heavyweight title contendership; a situation that isn’t as cut and dry as many would believe.While champion Brock Lesnar’s return to the cage is anything but official (there’s a July possibility floating around), is it still definitive that the undefeated Shane Carwin still gets the next crack at the beltIt’s not like Carwin’s in-cage endeavors netted him a title shot in the first place. His resume isn’t any more stellar than Cain Velasquez or Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera. Carwin was simply in the fortunate predicament as the benefactor of the UFC desperate for a headliner for UFC 106. A fight between Lesnar-Carwin was more marketable than Lesnar-Velasquez and hence, Carwin’s granted a title shot likely on the accord of a mere blog entry stating a distaste for Lesnar.Needless to say, circumstances change and the UFC isn’t in the same situation it was back then and as Mir, Velasquez and Nogueira stay active, Carwin’s case diminishes.But despite the worth of Carwin, Velasquez, or Nogueira, Mir possesses a penultimate trump card, in that he is an unquestioned aficionado at making people give a damn about his fights.It’s well-documented that Mir is on the comeback trail towards a rubber match with Lesnar that would tower over the marketability of a fight with any of the aforementioned contenders. Last night’s demolition of Kongo added more fuel to the fire, as there apparently is something to be said for a motivated, strength-training Mir.Mir took the hint that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, and in bulking up to 264.5 pounds at weigh-in time, the former champion all of a sudden made a potential rematch with Lesnar a bit more interesting. Honestly, who envisioned the Kongo fight going down the way it didI’m sure the submission finish was hardly a stretch, but Mir decking the decorated striker with a single blow was nothing short of eye-opening.