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.
Eleven shots separated Phil and Tiger Sunday at Pebble Beach as Lefty secured his 40th Tour win. Jason Sobel had 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.
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Whatever the reason was, it was the same one that made it worthy of an AP story and prominent play in all the usual places.
Nowhere in the brief AP story does anyone congratulate wide-out Calvin Johnson, defensive end Gaines Adams and defensive tackle Amobi Okoye for their honesty. Instead, we have a discussion of the NFL’s new emphasis on character and speculation about whether this is an example of good character or bad.
To which the only response should be, since when is honesty bad? It only makes you wish that guys would fess up to real issues, like domestic violence, heavy drinking and the use of HGH and steroids. But we can be pretty sure that’s not going to happen.
It is possible that the three — Johnson could be the top pick overall — were simply pre-empting drug tests that they suspected would show that they had THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in their systems. Unlike most recreational drugs, which are water-soluble and go through the system relatively quickly, marijuana is fat-soluble and shows up in urine tests weeks after exposure.
In that case, it’s better to tell them up front than wait for the lab report.
But even if that’s the case, the players know that the NFL considers marijuana every bit as evil as steroids and they don’t dare get caught with it in their systems once they’re in the league. So it’s probably safe to assume they’ll behave themselves.
And who would you rather have on your team, somebody who admitted to smoking weed or someone who might be using steroids — or someone who got into a fight?
It must be a big deal because people leaked the information, hiding behind a guarantee of anonymity. I don’t know what their motives were, other than to vilify the players for something that shouldn’t even be on the NFL’s testing menu.
These are confidential interviews. There better be a good reason for violating that confidentiality, just as Pro Football Weekly should have a good reason for granting sources anonymity.
I can’t see a good reason here for spilling the beans or granting anonymity.
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Wesseling: 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 AFC teams.
After leading by 18 points in the first half, the Los Angeles Lakers were staring at a four-point deficit with less than two minutes to play.
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.
