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The article reports on the defeat of the New York Giants football team against the Baltimore Ravens during a match in Maryland on December 23, 2012. It says that the Giants' 33-14 loss to the Baltimore Ravens diminished its chances for the playoffs. It notes that most of Giants' players expressed confusion about how they are defeated successively in the season.

The game began on an afternoon in mid-May but has endured for 31 years, immortalized by a famous magazine article, viewed live by only 2,000 spectators but perpetuated, through the decades, as a moment of triumph and torment. Yale Field, in 1981, had no locker rooms, so the St. John's baseball team arrived there that Thursday dressed fully in uniform. Yale's ace, Ron Darling, was stretching. The sun was out, but the wooden grandstands, under an overhang, remained cloaked by shadows. That may have been reason enough for some fans to linger after the earlier game of the N.C.A.A. tournament's northeast regional, a sleepy 10-2 victory by Maine over Central Michigan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite obliterating the Portland Trail Blazers, 121-79, on Wednesday in Mike Woodson's debut as interim coach, many Knicks players sounded mournful in the locker room when discussing the resignation of Mike D'Antoni. Jeremy Lin's eyes were tinged with sadness. ''Obviously, I miss him a lot,'' Lin said. Lin praised D'Antoni for helping jump-start his career. ''I am not going to forget what he did for me personally.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After their 95-70 victory over St. John's on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, the Syracuse players packed their bags quietly, with hardly a sign of celebration. Coaches and university administrators lingered outside the locker room, waiting to go home. The scene matched the Orange's businesslike demolition of the Red Storm squad, which could not come up with an answer for Jim Boeheim's 2-3 zone defense, the size to stop center Fab Melo on the inside or the athletes to keep up with the Orange's nine-deep bench. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- On Jan. 10, when the Washington Wizards won their first game of this truncated N.B.A. season after eight losses, the talk in the locker room was of relief, but also of candy and coins. Two weeks and one coach later, the talk after the team's third victory was about cigarettes. If nothing else, the Wizards are keeping things unpredictable as they stumble along the bottom of the Eastern Conference. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mike Perkins was one of the first people Tom Coughlin hired as he built an N.F.L. franchise in Jacksonville during the mid-1990s. When the Jaguars' stadium was nearly complete, Coughlin ordered Perkins, the son of the former Giants coach Ray Perkins, onto the new field to calculate how many steps there were from the home sideline to the locker room. ''He wanted to know exactly how long it would take to get into the locker room at halftime,'' said Perkins, who assumed a multitude of football duties in his first year at Jacksonville. ''We did time trials -- 19 seconds, 20 seconds. I thought he was nuts.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Each man in the Rangers' locker room was disconsolate after their 3-0 loss to Ottawa Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. The players acted as if they were in the midst of a lengthy losing streak instead of having just lost for the second time in twelve games. ''It's infuriating,'' said center Brian Boyle. ''By no means are we satisfied by what we've done before January 12th.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Jets' owner, Woody Johnson, speaking publicly Thursday for the first time since the late-season collapse that exposed a splintered locker room, briefly addressed the problems that seemed to overtake the team over the last two weeks. Johnson defended Mark Sanchez's work ethic, which had been criticized by unnamed teammates in a recent report in The Daily News, and said that Coach Rex Ryan underestimated the degree of dissension among a group that lost its final three games. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the jubilant Saints locker room Sunday, players congratulated one another and celebrated a convincing 48-27 victory over the big, bad Giants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The spraying of Champagne all over a winning locker room is as much a part of autumn as the leaves changing or trick or treating. It is so expected that locker rooms are covered in protective plastic sheeting, and players know enough to put on goggles to keep the Champagne and beer out of their eyes. An extra round of playoffs means even more chances for foamy jubilation. Any spontaneity the ritual once possessed has long since evaporated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

They were supposed to be getting ready for practice Saturday afternoon, but the Connecticut women's basketball players could not tear themselves away from the television. Like Girl Scouts at a campfire, they sat huddled around the set in their designated locker room at Greensboro Coliseum, aglow from the show being put on by Louisville, one of their Big East Conference rivals. The Cardinals, a No. 4 seed, held a double-digit lead against No. 1 seed North Carolina. If Louisville could hang on, it would be considered a huge upset, but the Connecticut women could not say they were surprised. Not after escaping with a 6-point victory against Louisville on March 11 in the Big East Conference tournament championship game. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]