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.
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.
API know there is some concern in Philadelphia, where the Phillies have discovered that Jimmy Rollins was blowing smoke in spring training, the relief pitching really stinks, and they can’t win a game. My advice is to fan that concern into a full-blown panic. Fans down there have already seen Atlanta and the Mets up close and painful, and there’s no question — and this isn’t a long limb to climb out on — those two teams are going to fight it out all season long. The Mets will ride their success of last year and this year’s powerhouse to a team attendance record. The Braves will sell out Turner Field. Once. Maybe.
But the most excitement is in the NL Central, where the Pirates and Reds are battling for first-place — riding roughshod on the division. Yep, if I were the Cardinals, I’d be very, very worried about them right now. In fact, if I were the Cardinals, I’d be very, very worried about everything. Like the Yankees, they’ve got pitching problems.
So do the Dodgers. Jason Schmidt went down, the team’s scoring just four runs a game — a lot only by the standards of the Cards and Astros — and the Diamondbacks are already the class of a division that’s headed for another year as baseball’s worst.
I know I should say something about the Cubs, but what’s the say about 3-4 and chasing Cincy and Pittsburgh? I know Lou Piniella’s a genius, because I read a story by an expert attesting to that fact. He doesn’t have to prove it just yet, but it would be nice if he’d kick it in gear sometime soon.
He doesn’t want those Pirates to get too big a lead, does he?
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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