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SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
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.
Miami coach Al Golden says the worst is behind him, but his headaches figure to continue now that former booster Nevin Shapiro, now in jail, says his involvement with the Hurricanes program will result in stiff penalties.
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.
Euro Roundup: First-place Manchester City won 1-0 at Aston Villa on Sunday on Joleon Lescott's goal in the 63rd minute, maintaining its two-point lead over Manchester United in the Premier League.
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.
APChildren draw crayon tributes, grandmothers bake apple fritters, grown men swallow hard, ministers preach of courage and spirit, press releases are updated with conclusions that the patient has a positive attitude.
All of this for a horse.
Take that back. None of this is for the horse. It is for us. I think we want to honor a purity in sports, a nobility of the uncorrupted, a simplicity that no longer exists, if it ever did.
We have found a place to look, a much more uncomplicated and undemanding place than a dugout or a huddle or a penalty box.
Barbaro will never disappoint us. He never can. He will either die a dignified and gallant death or he will recover to remind us that courage and a positive outlook can prevail.
Try finding that reassurance in the NFL or the NBA. Me, I'll take the not knowing, the variety, the rogue, the exception, the surprise.
If the world of sports were full of Barbaros, as is horse racing, full of athletes bred exactly and precisely to do a single thing, how dull it would be. If there was an actual recipe for the next Michael Jordan, as there might be for the next Dr. Fager, it would only matter who had the ingredients.
If rewards were as simple as an extra handful of oats, how soon the novelty of virtue would weary us. A reminder: A horse that will not mind is soon a gelding.
The beauty of sport is not to confirm the design but to violate it. The basketball player who is too short, the pitcher who is too fat, the wide receiver who is too slow, the bicycle racer who should be dead from cancer winning the Tour de France seven times in a row.
These are every bit as inspirational as the animal too dumb to know that it is hurt, that would kill itself, like the great filly Ruffian, because it has no choice.
How horrific were the replays of Barbaro's fractured leg in the Preakness, but no more so than Joe Theismann's. It might be interesting to see who got the most mail.
The first of three pools of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager begins its three-day run on Friday and the bet's opening scenario is very similar to each of its opening pools since the wager was created in 1999.
It's first time that Classic will be broadcast in primetime on Nov. 3.
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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.