FOXSports.com's Jay Glazer reports:

Giants Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Strahan's worst fears did not come true but he also wasn't given the best of news today.

Strahan told FOXSports.com on the way back from his mid-morning MRI that doctors have told him he'll be on crutches for at least the next week because of sprained ligaments in his right foot.
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Brian Urlacher told FOXSports.com that an MRI this morning showed he too has a sprained ligament.

Unlike Strahan, however, Urlacher sounds like he's planning to play in Week 10.

"If it's up to me I will," Urlacher said. "They told me it all depends on how much pain I can take. I can deal with that."

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The Echoes of a Home Run: 'The Shot Heard Round the World' Stirred the Nation, The Secret Behind It Preyed on Two Men (Wall Street Journal, 9/19/2006, adapted from The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World by Joshua Prager) (sub. req'd)

A fascinating article, adapted from Joshua Prager's new book, on what the 50-year secret that the Giants stole the sign for the pitch that became Bobby Thomson's pennant winning homer in 1951 did to the participants: