Mike Garafolo of the Star Ledger provides a number updates from camp today. Kenny Phillips was given a chance to work with the first team, as Michael Johnson was bumped to the second unit. Phillips deflected a pass from Eli Manning for Steve Smith. James Butler grabbed the deflection for an INT. Garafolo provides more [...]

Steve Smith returned to practice today after missing a couple of sesssions with a groin injury. Justin Tuck (foot) returned as well.

Ahmad Bradshaw was found to not be in violation of the personal conduct policy by the league and will not be suspended, according to NFL Network’s Adam Schefter. Bradshaw served 30 days in a Virginia jail earlier this offseason and must serve 30 more next year. His violation predated his NFL career.

Watch today’s episode of the Nooner over at TheNoonerBlog.com. At WasWatching, Steve Lombardi says that Carl Pavano and Phil Hughes will make rehab starts for the Charlestown RiverDogs. Tommy Dee of TheKnicksBlog grades the Renaldo Balkman trade, while Adam Zagoria at ZagsBlog has full coverage of the Big East media day. Brian Bassett at TheJetsBlog [...]

Not able to make it up to Albany for this year’s Giants training camp?  Well check out these 23 beautiful photographs from Sports Illustrated. New computer background for me with photo #2.  Enjoy.

QB David Carr was cleared to return to practice today. He hasn’t made a great impression at camp so far and it appears that Anthony Wright is ahead of him on the depth chart to back up Eli Manning.

Coach Tom Coughlin has put an emphasis on Eli Manning to work on throwing deeper passes in camp to improve the Giants deficiency with the long pass last season. “No, there were not enough. You’re always striving for more, it doesn’t matter what the number is. You look at other people and their numbers, and [...]

Tom Coughlin spoke with reporters at camp today, here are some selected quotes from his comments. Anything wrong with Mario Manningham? Yes, he’s got some quad soreness and about halfway through the individual Ronnie (Barnes) said that he ought to be shut down. I don’t know the extent of it. We will have to wait [...]

Eli Manning comes in at #10 on Jeffri Chadiha of ESPN‘s list of the most indispensable players in the NFL. Talk about a guy who came of age in a relatively short time last season. Manning started 2007 with people wondering if he could become a more effective leader and he ended it with the [...]