Silva: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for NFC teams.
SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
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PBT: Jeremy Lin wasn't his hot self on Saturday, but he still led the Knicks to victory.
Arc's five up, five down: After No. 11 Michigan State's 58-48 upset of No. 3 Ohio State, you'd be a fool to discount the Spartans' national title chances now.
CFT: Jordan Jefferson makes it clear he wasn't happy with LSU's game plan in the Tigers' BCS Championship Game loss to Alabama.
Golf's dream pairing - Woods and Mickelson - is on the course in the final round at Pebble Beach. Jason Sobel has hole-by-hole reports.
The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Switzerland in the Davis Cup on Sunday, with 19-year-old Ryan Harrison and John Isner winning closing singles matches.
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) -England defender Joleon Lescott preserved Manchester City's two-point lead in the Premier League by scoring a second-half winner in a 1-0 victory at Aston Villa on Sunday.
Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom Sunday in the Andorran Pyrenees. Overall leader Lindsey Vonn was more than a second behind and finished eighth.
Robins: It’s the Year of the Dragon on the Lunar calendar, and this Chinese influence could extend to it also being the year of the Pekingese on the green carpet at the 136th Westminster Dog Show on Tuesday.
APFor Rangers, same old story
Texas once again fails in its attempt to catch the Angels and Athletics while also being painfully reminded of the folly of five-year, free-agent pitcher contracts. (Quiz: Name the last good deal of that length for a pitcher).
The same ownership that signed Chan Ho Park repeats the mistake with Kevin Millwood, a pitcher who worked on one-year deals the last two seasons.
With big money comes responsibility for Millwood, and that didn’t work well for him in Philadelphia.
Thumbs up for WBC
The World Baseball Classic is a success, more so in Latin and South America than in the United States.
The skepticism of American fans is offset by the passion of many of the game’s great players representing their baseball-mad countries.
Remember that this event is being pushed to the players by their union. And as long as many of the top names play, the WBC has tremendous credibility.
Going global
The success of the WBC will bring to the forefront international expansion by Major League Baseball.
At a time when the Florida Marlins are actively setting the table for a move by raising ticket prices after dismantling a winning team, MLB has run out of American cities for franchise relocation.
Few take Portland seriously, and Las Vegas, although the leading candidate, still has serious viability questions.
Watch Monterrey, Mexico become a stronger candidate after the initial WBC.
A different sort of walk
Last is the prediction I truly hope does not come true: Labor strife reenters the game in September.
This will be triggered by the players, whose union was publicly trounced in the drug-testing saga, and has watched the percentage of revenues devoted to payroll shrink from 65 percent to 53 percent over the life of the current agreement.
Ownership will have little appetite for a work stoppage, the hardliners of past years softened by an explosion of revenues, particularly from MLB’s internet site.
But the union will want something to hold aloft as a sign of victory, and if ownership doesn’t regard their request as reasonable (what are the odds on that?), then all bets are off come Labor Day.
The omen: Baseball’s big strikes were in 1981 and 1994, 13 years apart. We are now 12 years from the last stoppage. Most of the players who lived through that, some of whom stepped in to prevent a 2002 September walkout, are gone.
SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
DeMarco: Plug in a well-heeled ownership group and negotiate one of those mega-bucks TV deals that are going around, and the Dodgers could become the west coast version of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox.
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Wesseling: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for AFC teams.