EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. --?New York Giants running back Shane Vereen returned to practice Wednesday for the first time since tearing his left triceps in a Week 3 loss to the Washington Redskins.?The hope is that Vereen, currently on injured reserve, can return for the matchup with the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium on Dec. 11, which could be for first place in the NFC East.That would be great, Vereen said. Division opponent. To play against Dallas nonetheless, that would be awesome. Like I said, its kind of out of my hands. Its up to the progression, up to the doctors. Hopefully.The Giants (8-3) now have 21 days to activate Vereen or his season ends.He looks like hes in good condition and caught the ball well, coach Ben McAdoo said.With New Yorks offense sputtering most of the season, Vereen should be a welcome addition for the Giants difficult stretch run. Their opponents over the final five weeks have a combined 34-20-1 record.The Giants play Sunday on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Vereen is not expected to be ready for that game, even though hes trending in the right direction.Physically I feel good, he said. If it was just up to how I felt like that, I wouldve been back. But there is a lot that goes into it and weve got to be smart.Among the primary factors tied into getting clearance for a game is proving there is enough strength in his left arm to play and handle contact.Vereen, 27, is tied for second on the Giants in rushing despite missing the past eight games. He has 147 yards on 31 carries and leads the team with 4.7 yards per carry.The veteran running back has been missed, particularly as a capable receiver out of the backfield. He caught a career-high 59 passes out of the backfield last season.The Giants originally tried to replace the versatile Vereen with Bobby Rainey. That didnt work out. 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WASHINGTON -- Shortly after Jesse Owens returned home from his snubbing by Adolph Hitler at the 1936 Olympics, he and Americas 17 other black Olympians found a less-than-welcoming reception from their own government, as well.On Thursday, relatives of those 1936 African-American Olympians will be welcomed to the White House and will get to shake the presidents hand -- an honor Owens and the others didnt receive, the way some of their white counterparts did, after they returned home from Berlin 80 years ago.U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun announced the visit Wednesday night at a Team USA Awards ceremony.That is why Im here 80 years later, to recognize the senselessness (of not inviting them to the White House), and to pay tribute to all the progress that has come since, Blackmun said.The announcement came on the same night the USOC invited Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were booted from the 1968 Olympics for their gloved-fist protest on the medals stand, to be part of the awards show. Smith and Carlos hadnt been involved in an official USOC event since being sent home from Mexico City. The gold- and bronze-medal-winning sprinters will be at the White House on Thursday, as well.At the 1936 Olympics , Owens won four gold medals, but it was the messsage Owens victories sent by winning in Nazi Germany and undercutting Hitlers white-supremacy dogma that stood as the lasting memory of those games.dddddddddddd.Owens returned to a segregated America where he had trouble finding steady work and where, according to his interviews in later years, the president, Franklin Roosevelt, never sent him any words of congratulations or an invitation to the White House.Decades later, Owens was acknowledged and honored at the White House. In 1976, President Gerald Ford presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.The stories of the other 17 blacks on that team were less-widely known. Thursdays event was meant to give a long-overdue White House recognition to those athletes, who accounted for 14 of Americas 56 medals in Berlin.Owens daughter, Marlene Owens-Rankin, will be among the relatives at the White House.To be able to go to the White House 80 years later with Barack Obama as president and also with the other 1936 Olympians that really didnt get the exposure that my grandfather did, for various reasons, I think it would make him so happy, said Owens granddaughter, Marlene Dortch. ' ' '