CORTLAND — It’s official: Mark Sanchez is the Jets’ starting quarterback. For their Aug. 24 preseason game against the Ravens in Baltimore, that is. Rex Ryan reiterated yesterday that he’d like to decide who will be the regular-season starting…

CORTLAND — Don’t expect to see Jets starting left guard Alan Faneca in a game anytime soon. Head coach Rex Ryan yesterday revealed that Faneca had surgery on the broken finger on his left hand and will definitely not play in next Monday’s…

Freddy Sanchez faced Mike Pelfrey three times yesterday afternoon, striking out twice and grounding out once. And when Jeff Francoeur was on second base in the bottom of the ninth inning, Sanchez got a chance to talk to him. “He was telling me…

The last anyone saw of Andre Woodson, he was fumbling away consecutive snaps in last year’s preseason finale against the Patriots, blunders that so triggered the ire of Tom Coughlin that he immediately yanked the rookie quarterback from the game…

Pictures from a variety of angles exist and have already been circulated on the internet, showing Ramses Barden in full extension, his right arm seemingly scraping the clouds as he reached up, up, up for a one-handed catch during a one-on-one drill…

Ian Kinsler homered and drove in two runs, Dustin Nippert pitched six solid innings and the Texas Rangers passed Boston in the AL wild-card race, beating the Red Sox 4-3 Sunday. The Rangers took two of three in the weekend series to move a…

David Wright was released from the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan this morning after being diagnosed with post-concussion symptoms from his beaning Saturday by Giants pitcher Matt Cain. Wright is suffering from headaches after taking a…

Daniel Murphy hit a game-ending RBI single in the ninth inning, Luis Castillo made up for David Wright’s absence with a rare two-run homer and the scrappy Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Sunday. All-Star closer Francisco Rodriguez (3-4)…

Sure, you wanted to see more of Mark Sanchez in Friday night’s preseason opener against the Rams. But it sounded as if Rex Ryan didn’t need to see much more. “He showed us everything we needed to see,” Ryan said of Sanchez’s eight snaps on one…

Somewhere in the deepest recesses of hell a baseball team is giving thanks for having it better than the Mets. The sight yesterday of David Wright lying motionless near home plate after taking a Matt Cain fastball to head might have topped the…