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Giants can run down the Eagles

The last six times the Eagles and Giants have met, in what should be the second best rivalry in the NFL, the Eagles have won all six games.

If that streak is ever going to end, it should happen Sunday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field. Since the streak started three years ago, there has never been a better time for the Giants to play the Eagles.

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NYC Students Get Wake-Up Calls From Celebrities

Through the WakeUp! NYC campaign, chronically absent students and students at-risk of becoming chronically absent will receive inspirational wake up phone calls to encourage them to attend school. The pre-recorded messages stress the connection between success in school and success in life, because research shows that children and parents too often fail to make the connection.

The WakeUp!NYC campaign will start next week when over 6,500 students at the 25 schools, who have missed 10 or more days of school this academic year, will receive a phone or email message inviting them to participate in the WakeUp!NYC campaign.  After this introductory period, the WakeUp! NYC campaign will expand to approximately 250,000 chronically absent students citywide. 

The WakeUp! NYC campaign will also include “good news” calls to congratulate students for strong or improved attendance. Research suggests that celebrating improved attendance helps promote attendance.  Conversely, students whose chronic absenteeism does not improve, in addition to additional interventions by the Task Force, will receive telephone absence alerts notifying the student and parents about the serious nature of the student’s attendance patterns. The WakeUp! NYC telephone calls will be made through SchoolMessenger, a communications company focused on connecting schools and families, which has underwritten the cost of implementing the call campaign to all chronically absent students in NYC.

Chris Canty Recalls The Wisdom Of Bill Parcells

Asked for his thoughts on the upcoming season, New York Giants defensive tackle Chris Canty turned toward a source Giants fans are intensely familiar with for his answer. Canty referenced something he learned from legendary Giants coach Bill Parcells, who coached Canty for two seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.

"This team has the talent to do everything that we want to do. It's just a matter of coming together as a team. We can't do it as individuals. That's not how we do this around here. It has to be as a team; we all have to come together as a team. Where you might have lost a guy in the off-season, there's somebody there that can contribute and pick up the slack, or there's somebody there that's bringing something to the table that can maybe compensate for the losses of that individual's ability," Canty said. "We can't just look at it as a collection of individuals. Bill Parcells used to say all the time "The best players don't always make the best team, but the best team always wins." At the end of the day, we've got to come together as a football team in order to be successful." - by Ed Valentine SB Nation.com