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.
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.
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Didier Drogba scored a hat trick in Chelsea’s 3-1 win at Levski Sofia on Wednesday, and FC Barcelona needed a late equalizer to tie 1-1 at Werder Bremen in the Champions League.
Drogba scored in the 39th, 52nd and 68th minutes, while Group A rival and defending champion Barcelona got Lionel Messi’s score in the 89th to offset captain Carles Puyol’s own goal.
Chelsea has six points, Barcelona has four, Bremen one and Levski zero.
Two-time champion Inter Milan lost 2-0 to Bayern Munich and finished the match with nine players. It was Inter’s second straight loss in Europe and left the Italian champion in trouble in Group B.
In other matches, it was Liverpool 3, Galatasaray 2 and PSV Eindhoven 1, Bordeaux 0 in Group C; Spartak Moscow 1, Sporting Lisbon 1 in Group B; Shakhtar Donetsk 2, Olympiakos 2, and Valencia 2, AS Roma 1 in Group D.
Drogba scored his first goal when John Obi Mikel’s shot was blocked by goalkeeper Georgi Petkov. Drogba put a left-footed rebound home. The Ivory Coast striker’s second came after he chested a long pass and put it under Petkov.
Frank Lampard set up Drogba for his third goal.
In Group C, Liverpool led 3-0 before hanging on against Galatasaray. Peter Crouch scored in the ninth minute and with a spectacular scissors kick in the 52nd. Luis Garcia added the other in between.
Umit Karan scored two second-half goals in six minutes to bring the Turkish club back in the game.
PSV Eindhoven connected in the 65th minute in the other group match, with Diego Tardelli crossing for Mika Vayrynen to score. Liverpool and PSV both have four points, with Galatasary and Bordeaux at one.
Inter Milan played with 10 men from the 58th minute when Zlatan Ibrahimovic was sent off for a second yellow card. Bayern Munich broke the tie in the 81st as Claudio Pizarro scored.
Inter defender Fabio Grosso received a straight red card in the 85th for an elbow before Lukas Podolski scored Bayern’s second goal in injury time.
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Bayern has six points, with Sporting at four, Spartak at one and Inter at zero.
In Group D, David Villa scored one goal and set up another for Valencia. AS Roma playmaker Francesco Totti scored from an 18th-minute penalty kick after Cassetti brought down Emiliano Moretti.
Olympiakos’ Nery Alberto Castillo scored one and set up another goal. Shakhtar Donestk’s goals were from Tomas Hubschman and Ciprian Marica.
Valencia leads the group with six points, Roma has three and Olympiakos and Shakhtar have one.
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.
Alex Morgan's 2 goals, including the winner in stoppage time, lift the U.S. past New Zealand 2-1.
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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.
