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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.
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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.
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Getty ImagesDodge future
Kasey Kahne has been the only Dodge driver to have much success this season with the second-year Dodge Charger.
He’s 11th in the standings entering Richmond, where he’ll start in 20th position. Penske drivers Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman are next in the standings at 14th and 16th.
But Scott Riggs, one of Kahne’s Evernham Motorsports teammates, says better times are coming.
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“I’ve done a lot of the testing for our team with the Charger with next year’s nose, and it’s going to be real good,” Riggs said. “The car we have now has a lot of downforce. When we’d go to the wind tunnel, the numbers would be real good. In fact, we’d keep winning the Wind Tunnel 500. But, on the track, you’d get air coming from the side and the front end would wash out or just get real loose.
“The new nose doesn’t have as many curves and doesn’t react as much to the side forces. I think everybody will be happier with it.”
Spark plugs: NASCAR awards a five-point bonus for leading at least one lap and five more points for leading the most laps in a race. Kenseth has 95 bonus points to 45 for Johnson. Fourth-place Jeff Gordon has a series-high 105. ... Johnson, third-place Kevin Harvick and ninth-place Mark Martin are the only drivers in the top 18 who have been running at the end of all 25 races this season. ... Chevrolet (Dale Earnhardt Jr.), Ford (Kurt Busch) and Dodge (Kahne) each have won once here in the last three races.
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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.
