The Giants' Hakeem Nicks said Wednesday that his doctors have given him clearance to start running next Wednesday. The team's leading receiver had emergency surgery last Monday for Compartment Syndrome, a condition where nerves and blood vessels in his right leg were compressed and that, if not caught in time, could have led to amputation. Doctors told him they'd caught the condition "just in time." He has an eight-inch wound on his calf, but he said he's feeling better and is aiming for a Dec. 12 return, when the Giants are at Minnesota.

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