It was the moment that has so far defined the Giants' season.

For a defense whose failure to stop the run has defined its season, this was merely the latest and most eye-popping test.

But it won't be easy as the injuries that have defined their season continued.

Now, consistent and true, they have returned to that level place that has come to define their season.

"He's not going to back down," Aguirre said of the ultimatum that will define the Knicks' season.

But it's no news that an assortment of new works and revivals defines the theater's 15th season.

Cone had conquered the streak that has defined his season, and he had conquered himself, too.

In the final days before the game that will define its season, normally a time for polishing, Miami was forced to reconstruct.

A quick succession of major competitions defined her 2007 season.

For what happened early last Sunday morning, and in the hours that followed, did more to define Virginia's season than all its victories and overwhelming achievements.