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.
PBT: Jeremy Lin wasn't his hot self on Saturday, but he still led the Knicks to victory.
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.
On balance, last weekend’s Dubai World Cup program was the best renewal ever and what makes Dubai such a strong possibility to host a future Breeders’ Cup event. That, and the organization’s need for funding which, among other things, can help grow the international racing model.
Expansion on several levels has been in the works for some time. There was an announcement on Jan. 25 that there would be a Request For Proposals for any track in the world with an interest in hosting a future Breeders’ Cup. This, too, creates a synergy with the “Breeders’ Cup Challenge,” in effect a playoff system that features a ‘win-and-you’re-in’ format for designated races deemed worthy by the Breeders’ Cup committee.
Significantly, the first race in the Challenge series will be the Hong Kong Jockey Club Champions Mile at Sha Tin Race Course later this month. Additionally, the recent marketing partnership between the Hong Kong Jockey Club and Breeders’ Cup Limited includes a $1-million bonus provision for the horse that sweeps the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile and Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile in December, also at Sha Tin.
For the first time this year, horseplayers in Hong Kong will be able to wager into Breeders’ Cup betting pools. The speculation is that the recent hiring of New York Racing Association Senior Vice-President and COO Bill Nader by the Hong Kong Jockey Club as its Executive Director, Racing, will pay immediate dividends, not only helping facilitate Hong Kong’s simulcast wagering on Breeders’ Cup but also for his racing expertise and contacts among America’s top horsemen. The HKJC clearly has ambitious plans, but also has serious competition.
The demonstration to visiting dignitaries at Nad Al Sheba before the World Cup left many observers bug-eyed. A 50-foot scale model of the new Meydan complex was hydraulically lifted out of the ground, allowing visitors to walk around inside it. According to one observer, not a single detail was overlooked and that the projected costs possibly reaching $1 billion was not hyperbole.
Meydan, translated from the Arabic to mean “where people congregate, compete and aspire to win” is the vision of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates. But not even a sheikh can have everything he wants. Witness the performance of his Discreet Cat. It turns out the Sport of Kings can humble them, too.
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.