The Browns will take on the defending champs from New York when the second week of the NFL preseason concludes Monday night. Let’s pray that Hurricane Fay doesn’t have me watching WSVN 7 in Miami, WFTV, Bay New 9 or  refreshing TBO.com.

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Here’s your Daily Sports Roundup . . .

Event of the day . . .

Derek Anderson was the eventual winner of the Browns’ quarterback competition last season, and he managed to lead the team to a 10-6 record (and almost a playoff berth). That gives Anderson some breathing room; Brady Quinn might be the team’s QB of the future, but he’ll have to seriously outplay the incumbent Anderson over the next few weeks to even get a sniff at the team’s starting job for Week 1 of the season.

Eli Manning led the Giants over the heavily-favored Patriots in the Super Bowl last season, so he pretty much has the team’s starting quarterback job wrapped up for life now. Manning, though, will want top target Plaxico Burress healthy and effective for the start of the regular season; Burress has been nursing an ankle injury for the last few weeks, and his practice time has been extremely limited so far during camp.

The oddsmakers have pegged the Giants as a 2-point home favorite in this contest, with the game’s total sitting at 35.5 points. The kickoff is scheduled to take place at 8:00pm ET, with ESPN providing the coverage. The Browns lost their preseason opener 24-20 to the Jets, while the Giants fell 13-10 to the Lions in their first exhibition contest.

Non-sports event of the day…

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Non-event of the day . . .

The worst game on the light Monday schedule will take place in Atlanta, where the Braves are slated to play host to the Giants. The Braves can take some solace in the fact that the Nationals aren’t going to catch them in the NL East standings, but they still look doomed to finish in fourth in their division. The Giants might end up in third in the weak NL West division, but then again they’re not far from being in that basement.

Also on the schedule . . .

There are only seven other Major League Baseball games on the Monday schedule, with CC Sabathia (7-0, 1.55 ERA in the NL) the most notable hurler expected to take to the mound. Sabathia will be looking to pitch the Brewers past the Astros in an 8:05pm ET outing. The Pirates will host the Mets in the other National League game on Monday, while in the American League it’ll be Boston at Baltimore, the Angels at Tampa Bay, Detroit at Texas, Oakland at Minnesota, and Seattle at the White Sox.

Betting events of the day…

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News from the wire . . .

Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell threw for 75 yards and a touchdown in the team’s game against the Titans over the weekend, but has yet to be turned loose . . . Titans quarterback Vince Young went just 4-of-13 for 37 yards passing in that contest . . . Guard Mo Williams officially became a member of the Cavaliers last week; he was the biggest part of a six-player deal between Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Oklahoma City.

Peek at the future . . .

The third week of the National Football League’s preseason schedule gets underway on Thursday night, with San Francisco at Chicago . . . the Canadian Football League has just two games again this week, with Saskatchewan at Edmonton on Thursday and Calgary at B.C. on Friday . . . the quarterfinals of the Olympic men’s basketball tournament get started at 2:30am ET on Wednesday and continue through the night.