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.
APHarold Henderson. The NFL's vice president for labor relations, Henderson should be Upshaw's adversary. Yet Henderson has been a driving force behind union conciliation, and since he joined the league in 1991, labor peace has been his hallmark. Henderson has gone further by designing education and career planning programs to benefit players. As Henderson describes his challenge, "The players had no relationship with the league. There was a void, a need. Players weren't getting services from the league of any kind in a centralized way."
Dwyane Wade. "I'm not Michael Jordan. I never will be Michael Jordan," Wade said last year. "Lord knows I don't want to be Michael Jordan." Still, Wade has emerged as the NBA's most marketable player — a humble, family-oriented guy with absurd on-floor abilities. He has boosted Converse into market respectability, appears in popular car, cell phone and sports drink commercials and his jersey has been the NBA's top seller. Wade may not be Jordan, but he's the most like Mike since the league had Mike.
Tony Dungy. Dungy is the first black coach to win a Super Bowl, but his contributions run much deeper. After years of being passed over for head coaching jobs, Dungy has leveraged his own opportunities into opportunities for others. As Buccaneers coach, he gave Bears coach Lovie Smith and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin their first pro jobs, and he had Chiefs coach Herm Edwards on his staff. "I think there was a subconscious barrier," Dungy says. "I think we had a vision of what a head coach looked like. White, middle-aged." Not anymore.
Jonathan Mariner. Mariner's reputation as an astute accountant might be unmatched in sports, plus he is a black belt in shaolin kung fu. Good thing he has that fighting spirit -- he took over a financial mess as MLB's CFO in 2002 and has helped direct baseball to better financial times. Ultimately, his job focus is to get owners to keep their balance sheets clean. Knowing Mariner could drop the whirling horse maneuver on them, most listen.
Trevor Edwards. No company influences the way fans think about athletes and sports more than Nike, and few employees have more say in Nike's branding efforts than Edwards, vice president of global brand and category management. He helps forge and manage Nike's multimedia advertising approach, no matter the audience. "We create demand for our brand by being flexible about how we tell the story," Edwards told Advertising Age magazine.
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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Robins: This year, six new breeds will be making their debut on the green carpet for the Westminster Dog Show, which begins Monday.
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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.