Giants Visit the White House; Giants Finish Their OTAs

New York Giants Visit The White House: The 2011 NFL Champion New York Giants were honored at a White House ceremony yesterday – a traditional event for Super Bowl-winning teams. Video clips of the ceremony are available at Giants.com:

• President Barack Obama (Video)
• Head Coach Tom Coughlin (Video)

Giants Finish Their OTAs: The Giants finished their Organized Team Activity (OTA) workouts this week. The team will hold a mandatory, full-squad mini-camp on June 12-14. Then the players will be off until training camp begins on July 26.

Injury Update on WR Hakeem Nicks: WR Hakeem Nicks, who foot surgery two weeks ago, continues to rehab. “(The rehab) is going real good,” said Nicks. “It’s only been two weeks, so I’ve been taking it slow, icing it, keeping the swelling down. I feel like everything has been going the way we planned, the way we would like things to be going.”

Article on DE Jason Pierre-Paul: Giants Burgeoning Star Jason Pierre-Paul Proving to Be a Student of the Game by Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports

Quotes: CB/S Janzen Jackson on Head Coach Tom Coughlin: “He’s 66, but he seems like he’s 26 to me, walking around out there excited and stuff.”

S Jojo Nicolas on Coughlin: “He treats you like man. He expects you to respond like a man and carry yourself in the proper manner. Everything is team-oriented and it’s focused on the main goal of winning and not being selfish. It’s always about the team.”