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.
APLee qualified his statements by saying he rarely used greenies. First, because they made you feel stronger than you really were, which would be a problem for control pitcher like Lee. Second, “you never know when it might rain. … That’s when you see entire teams of players chattering away at each other and doing six hours of Nautilus.”
Like how, in the business world, the assistant manager who can’t seem to shut up and seems a little too excitable isn’t naturally enthusiastic — it’s the four frappucinos per day he’s gulping.
In fact, it might be that our own culture of stimulant use keeps us from seeing who’s amped and who isn’t. Or, perhaps it’s not that we don’t see it, it’s that we don’t really care. In the nonsports world, you don’t find up-and-coming executives trying to get ahead by going to the office washroom with a fellow up-and-comer and asking the fellow employee to please shoot him or her in the rear with stanolozol. But you will see them walk out for a mid-afternoon jolt of joe, or an after-work cocktail of vodka and Red Bull.
Speaking of Red Bull, so heavily caffeinated it’s banned in France, we have no compunction about the so-called “energy drink” sponsoring race cars or even sticking its name on a soccer team. But what do you think would be the reaction to a certain laboratory buying a team and calling it the New York Balcos?
We don’t have to open our eyes to athletes’ use of stimulants. Many fans’ eyes have been dilated enough to be wide open, too. Perhaps the clearest signal athletes are staying away from the hard, banned stuff is not seeing them be less attentive at play. The clearest signal would be seeing them gumming up the lines at Starbucks with the rest of us.
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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