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?
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.
New York Racing Association via Filly & Mare Turf:
Just call Ouija Board the queen of the turf.
The 5-year-old European sensation unleashed an explosive rally in the stretch and won the $2.2 million Filly & Mare Turf by 2¼ lengths over Film Maker in her final race in America.
Ouija Board also won the 2004 Filly & Mare Turf at Lone Star Park and finished second in last year’s edition at Belmont Park.
“I was very fortunate to have ridden her,” jockey Frankie Dettori said. “She’s the best filly in the world, without a doubt.”
Ouija Board’s 21-race career carried the mare based in England to major stakes around the world She will be retired at the end of the season after races in Japan and Hong Kong.
The 7-5 favorite in a field of 10 returned $4.80 to win. Sprint:
Thor’s Echo took the lead at the top of the stretch and pulled an upset in the $2.1 million Sprint, defeating another long shot, Friendly Island, by four lengths.
Henny Hughes, the 8-5 favorite, never fired and finished last in the 14-horse field.
Sent off at 15-1, the 4-year-old gelding Thor’s Echo paid $33.20 to win. The colt is trained by Doug O’Neill, who also handles Lava Man.
Mile:
Miesque’s Approval was headed for retirement late last year. Marty Wolfson talked owner Charlotte Weber out of it, and the 7-year-old horse won the biggest race of his career — the $2.1 million Mile.
Pulling away in the stretch, Miesque’s Approval beat Aragorn by 2¾ lengths at odds of 24-1, returning $50.60 to win.
With the horse in poor form and running in claiming races for trainer Bill Mott, Wolfson asked Weber for a chance to train Miesque’s Approval, and the horse has responded with five wins in seven starts this year.
The first of three pools of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager begins its three-day run on Friday and the bet's opening scenario is very similar to each of its opening pools since the wager was created in 1999.
It's first time that Classic will be broadcast in primetime on Nov. 3.
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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.