{"id":48057,"date":"2025-09-29T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48057"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:25:06","slug":"new-york-giants-owner-john-mara-says-he-has-been-diagnosed-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48057","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants owner John Mara says he has been diagnosed with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">New York Giants owner John Mara announced Monday he was recently diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mara said in a statement released by the team that he has been following a treatment plan recommended by doctors. He did not disclose what form of cancer he has and asked for privacy on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI\u2019m feeling strong and optimistic, and I\u2019m committed to seeing this through to a positive outcome,\u201d Mara said. \u201cI\u2019m fortunate to be surrounded by incredible support \u2014 personally, professionally and medically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mara, 70, added that he expects to remain active with the team as president and CEO while being treated. He was at the Giants\u2019 practice facility in East Rutherford, New Jersey, last week when coach Brian Daboll formally named rookie Jaxson Dart the starting quarterback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Mara family has owned the storied NFL franchise since its founding in 1925.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/sports\/nfl\/new-york-giants-owner-john-mara-diagnosed-cancer-rcna234549\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Giants owner John Mara announced Monday he was recently diagnosed with cancer. Mara said in a statement released by the team that he has been following a treatment plan recommended by doctors. He did not disclose what form of cancer he has and asked for privacy on the matter. \u201cI\u2019m feeling strong and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[2675,10262,34808,2831,1358],"class_list":["post-48057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-cancer","tag-giants","tag-john-mara","tag-new-york","tag-owner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48059,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48057\/revisions\/48059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}