New York Giants Pro Bowl defensive end Osi Umenyiora admits blowing things out of proportion when he stormed out of Monday’s practice, saying it’s costing him in more ways than one. “Do I regret it? Absolutely,” Umenyiora said after practice on Tuesday. “It was a very, very bad moral decision on my part and an even worse financial decision on my part. So everything is cool now. I talked to who I needed to talk to and apologized to those I had to apologize to. It was so stupid and trivial for me to do that. Sometimes when you get emotional, things happen like that.” So what prompted Umenyiora’s admitted juvenile behavior? He had a minor dust-up with defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan. Omenyiora says that the thing that ticked him off was “miniscule.” Said the two-time all-pro selection: “I promise you, I never would have stepped out of this building if I would have known the repercussions. The text messages and people thinking I was dead. I didn’t know it would turn into that, but it did. I know better . . . I am not going to repeat nothing like that every again.” Sheridan had served as the Giants’ linebacker coach but was promoted to defensive coordinator after Steve Spagnuolo was hired as coach of the St. Louis Rams. Umenyiora and Sheridan have known each other for five years. “It’s not like he just got here. He has been here a while and I have known him forever,” he said. “This is not the first time I’ve had a conversation with him; it’s just so happened that this was the first time I took it that way, and it is going to be the last time.”

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The New York Giants announced Friday that they have released controversial wide receiver Plaxico Burress.

The decision comes four months after Burress, 31, accidentally shot himself in the leg at a New York City nightclub. The troubled star was the hero of the team’s 2008 Super Bowl win, grabbing the game-winning touchdown pass. The Giants suspended Burress after the Nov. 29, 2008 shooting incident and held his future in the balance.

“I am an optimist, and I believe most situations can be worked out,” said Giants General Manager Jerry Reese. “We hung in there as long as we could in hopes that there could be a resolution to this situation other than the decision we made today to release Plaxico. It wasn’t to be, so now we have to move on. Like everybody else here, we want nothing but the best for Plaxico, and we are appreciative of the contributions he made to this franchise.”

Burress joined the Giants in 2005.

N.Y. Giants receiver Plaxico Burress got a rare legal win Wednesday when a Pennsylvania jury sided with the troubled baller in a civil dispute over an impounded vehicle. Fred Laurenzo, who owns a car dealership in Lebanon, Pa., loaned Burress a 2004 Avalanche truck, worth $36,000, in exchange for autograph signings and other publicity events. But New York City Police impounded the truck, telling Laurenzo that it had been involved in a crime. He said that Burress never contacted police to resolve the matter, and it remained in custody for about a year. Laurenzo sued for $19,000. But a jury awarded him only $1,700, the amount that Burress had contended he was responsible for. Burress still faces gun charges after shooting himself in the leg in a New York restaurant.