In the New York Giants playbook, the play goes by the name 76 Union Y Sail. After Eli Manning called it in the final two minutes of Super Bowl XLII last February, the New York tabloids came up with other titles for it: “The Great Escape,” “The Hail Manning,” “The Catch in the Hat.” Some have called it the greatest play in Super Bowl history.

Eli liked the pass play he’d chosen, he says, because 76 Union Y Sail “has a lot of different answers. No matter what coverage, you have a shot.”

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Ricky Williams says he was briefly tempted to smoke marijuana during the Miami Dolphins’ bye weekend, an act that could have ended his roller-coaster NFL career. Williams has been in the league’s substance-abuse program since 2002 and has tested positive for marijuana.

Williams told The Miami Herald for Tuesday’s editions that when players were given Friday off, “automatically your mind, which is so constrained since training camp began … says, `I’m free, what can I do?’”

“So there was definitely an urge,” he said. “But I just thought about what I have to lose, and it was easy. The urge didn’t last very long.”

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The Mets have decided to bring back Jerry Manuel as manager despite the disappointing end to their season, SI.com has learned.

Manuel is expected to be approached to hammer out a new contract in the next day or two.

Manuel’s bosses believe he did an excellent job under trying circumstances, including late-season injuries to closer Billy Wagner and starter John Maine and an overall bullpen breakdown. The Mets were 55-38 under Manuel after starting 34-35 under Willie Randolph.

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “The Color of Money,” has died. He was 83.

Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.

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“According to eyewitnesses, before the Mets players completed the complicated procedure, in which they fused their physical selves and combined their talents to form the 20,000-ton robot, manager Jerry Manuel called the team to the dugout, where he commanded them to prepare their interlock systems for activation, connect the appropriate dyna-therms, charge up the infra-cells to full capacity, engage the mega-thrusters, and give it their best out there.”

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