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.
Reuters“The district court rested its order on legally insufficient grounds, and abused its discretion in granting the motion to quash,” Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain wrote for the appeals court.
In dissent, Judge Sidney R. Thomas voted to uphold Illston, writing that the government’s action “suggests an abuse of grand jury process.”
The players’ union can now ask for a new hearing before the full 9th Circuit or appeal the panel’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The union’s general counsel, Michael Weiner, declined to immediately comment, saying he wanted to first review the decision.
Separately, the court also ruled that “the government’s seizures were reasonable under the Fourth Amendment” and sent the case back to the district court to review what evidence can be used and what must be returned.
Circuit Judge Richard C. Tallman also heard the appeal.
In dissenting from much of the majority opinion, Thomas wrote: “It’s a seizure beyond what was authorized by the search warrant, therefore it violates the Fourth Amendment.
“The scope of the majority’s new holding could not be greater; it removes confidential electronic records from the protections of the Fourth Amendment. ...
“Perhaps baseball has become consumed by a ’Game of Shadows,”’ Thomas added, referring to the book by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, “but that is no reason for the government to engage in a ’Prosecution of Shadows.’ “
The government’s investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, a now-defunct Burlingame supplements lab at the center of the steroid scandal, already has resulted in guilty pleas from BALCO president Victor Conte, Bonds’ personal trainer Anderson, BALCO vice president James Valente, chemist Patrick Arnold and track coach Remi Korchemny.
The case is United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing Inc., 05-10067.
SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
DeMarco: Plug in a well-heeled ownership group and negotiate one of those mega-bucks TV deals that are going around, and the Dodgers could become the west coast version of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox.
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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.