And in 1986, the Jets were rolling with a 10-1 record, the N.F.L.'s best, until injuries riddled the defensive unit and the rival Giants emerged as that season's Super Bowl champions.

It portrays the increasingly frenzied efforts of the World candy company to compete with the rival Giant and Apollo companies over caramel sales.

August 8 - Carl Furillo returns to the Dodgers' lineup after an injury and collects two hits and a run scored in Brooklyn's 2-1 win over the rival Giants.

It was a last-minute drive against the Giants at Giants Stadium in the fifth week of the season that provided the Eagles with an early hold on first place in the National Football Conference East and the belief that any jinx against the rival Giants was over.

Though the Tigers narrowly lost the pennant race to the rival Giants, Kanemoto finished the season with a .307 average, 27 home runs and 108 RBI, bouncing back from a disappointing 2007 campaign.

Knowing that his Jets were desperate to regroup from three consecutive losses before opposing the rival Giants, Leon Hess visited their practice complex at Hofstra on Thursday and addressed them in the auditorium that resembles a college lecture hall.

Although the Giants take both games during a 14-game winning streak, the Dodgers would go on to win the pennant, using a 13 game winning streak of their own to clinch the pennant over the rival Giants on the season's next to last day.

His inadvertent cohort in the killing was Timothy J. Mara, owner of the rival Giants but also a legal bookmaker.

Another loss to the rival Giants and their season, for all practical purposes, would be over.

Fans of the rival Giants were bad enough but hell hath no fury like a Dodger fan scorned by Yankee fans.