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.
APRandy Wolf (3-3) was charged with six runs, 10 hits and four walks over 5 2-3 innings in his 200th big league game. The left-hander was in 4-1 with a 3.50 ERA in his eight previous starts against Arizona.
Young drove Wolf’s second pitch of the game to right-center for his third homer. The Diamondbacks left five runners in scoring position over the next three innings before scoring three runs in the fifth.
Eric Byrnes ended a 1-for-18 drought with an RBI double into the left field corner that allowed Orlando Hudson to score easily from first. Chris Snyder singled home another run after Wolf walked .205-hitting Carlos Quentin with two outs. Quentin scored when center fielder Juan Pierre made a diving attempt on Webb’s short flyball and it popped out of his glove for an RBI single.
Chad Tracy chased Wolf with a two-out RBI double in the sixth and Tony Clark greeted Rudy Seanez with an RBI single for a 6-0 lead.
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Young tacked on another run, leading off the seventh with a first-pitch homer against Seanez. The right-hander was trying to eat up a few innings for a tired Dodger bullpen that allowed only one hit through the final 10 2-3 innings of Sunday’s 17-inning, 5-4 victory at San Diego.
Brett Tomko, who was scheduled to throw on the side Monday between starts, relieved in the eighth. He gave up Young’s RBI single and a bases-loaded walk to Hudson.
Notes: Young’s multi-homer game was the first of his career. He was the first Diamondbacks player to lead off the first inning with a home run since July 23 at Phoenix, when Jeff DaVanon connected on the first pitch from Colorado’s Byung-Hyun Kim. ... Hudson was 3-for-5 with a walk, and has reached base in all 27 games. He is batting .385 lifetime against Dodgers pitching (30-for-78). ... C Russell Martin, one of four Dodgers who played all 17 innings in Sunday (including Garciaparra, Pierre and Jeff Kent), was the only one who had the night off. Mike Lieberthal got his third start behind the plate.
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.
