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The Detroit Red Wings equaled an NHL record with their 20th straight win at home, beating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 Sunday night on the strength of Johan Franzen's tiebreaking goal early in the third period.
PBT: Boston's Rajon Rondo continues to be named in trade talks, which is madness. The Celtics guard creates offense and makes everyone around him better, which was evident in Sunday's win over the Bulls.
Arc: Syracuse is among a solid group of No. 1 seeds in our latest tournament projections, but the middle of the pack is much more murky.
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.
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods greeted their Sunday pairing at Pebble Beach with optimism. But the day would end happily only for one.
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.
Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
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.
AP“I might wake up tomorrow feeling differently,” he said. “We’ll see. I’ll make a decision soon and go from there.”
If this was Radke’s final appearance, it was a disappointing one, ending with him sitting in the dugout staring at the field.
His teammates once again could not come up with a timely hit, his injured right shoulder couldn’t come up with one more big start and he couldn’t even catch a simple popup.
Pitching to extend the Twins’ season and his career at least another day, Radke allowed four runs — three earned — and five hits in four innings.
Radke got little help. Shortstop Jason Bartlett committed his second error of the series on a grounder by Kotsay in the third inning. Bradley then homered to make it 4-0.
Radke’s dropped popup proved more symbolic than significant.
With two outs in the fourth, D’Angelo Jimenez hit a popup halfway up the first-base line. Radke called off catcher Joe Mauer and first baseman Justin Morneau but the ball deflected off his glove for an embarrassing error.
An error by Morneau in the seventh led to four more unearned runs.
“That wasn’t Twins baseball at all,” Hunter said. “We know it. Everybody who saw it knows it. We didn’t play Twins baseball. We made three errors. That’s not us. We didn’t get guys over. We didn’t do anything.”
After making a hard push down the stretch to make the postseason and win the AL Central, the Twins had little left against Oakland.
Minnesota never held a lead in this series and finished 1-for-19 with runners in scoring position. The Twins have lost four straight postseason series and won just two of 15 games since beating the Angels on Game 1 of the 2002 ALCS.
“It’s disheartening to see how good we played over the last four months and then to lose the first three games,” Radke said. “There’s really no words for it.”
Minnesota squandered two early chances. With runners on first and second and one out in the first, Michael Cuddyer hit into a double play.
Then after a leadoff double by Morneau and sacrifice bunt by Hunter in the second, White hit a fly to left field that wasn’t deep enough to score Morneau. After Jason Tyner walked, Bartlett struck out to end the threat.
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