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.
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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.
Kobe Bryant hit a baseline jump shot with 4.2 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up a six-game road trip by holding on to beat the Raptors 94-92 on Sunday, their eighth victory in nine meetings with Toronto
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.
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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.
It was the Giants’ turn to play on Sept. 23 in the heartland, in Kansas City against the Chiefs. New York’s teams had the sympathy of the whole country now, though fans would still root against them after the opening kickoff. But there was really no escaping the multi-layered tragedies. Dick Lynch, the team’s radio color man for 34 seasons, was back at work in the broadcast booth even though his son, Richard, was missing, presumed dead. Richard was a married broker, the father of a 10-month-old daughter. He had been at his trading desk on the 84th floor of 2 World Trade Center when the second plane struck the building.
It was New York City Day in Kansas City. Lynch cried a bit during the pregame ceremony. Then there was Shaun Powell, the Newsday columnist, who covered the game from the press box. He’d lost his younger brother, Scott, who was inside the Pentagon when a jet crashed into it. John Mara, the Giants vice president, sat just a row above Powell in the press box. A day earlier, he’d been to his fourth funeral in a week, for friends and business associates.
Down on the field, Jason Whittle, a reserve center for the Giants, was back on the sideline after sitting bedside with the brother of his best friend. The brother was a construction worker around Ground Zero, and had been hit by debris. The Giants won, 13-3, as if it mattered.
October arrived, and a delayed baseball postseason ran into November. The Yankees had a tremendous run, staged two of the most remarkable comebacks in World Series history in the Bronx. Then they went back to Arizona, up 3 games to 2, and everybody figured they would close out the Diamondbacks, that this was somehow destiny. New York needed this championship. It was a done deal.
And then the impossible happened. Mariano Rivera couldn’t hold the lead in the ninth inning of Game 7. The Yankees lost. Paul O’Neill retired, right there on the spot, at his locker in Phoenix. This was the wrong ending for a dynasty, for a magical run. New York cried again a little, in a very different way than after Sept. 11th.
This was just sports. We could take the good from it, revel in the triumphs, forget any disappointment at our convenience. There were no real ramifications. It is why sports can bring us such comfort, when real life brings us such great pain. It is why they resumed the games in New York, after the planes hit.
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Robins: This year, six new breeds will be making their debut on the green carpet for the Westminster Dog Show, which begins Monday.
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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.