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.
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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.
APHernandez allowed a run and six hits over six innings and struck out five. He also walked six batters for the second time in his last four starts.
“A lot of times when Livan is walking somebody, it’s semi-intentionally,” Arizona manager Bob Melvin said. “He’s not going to give in. He’s going to be real fine on the corners, and at times he’ll pitch around a guy to get to the next guy. So it’s not like he’s just missing and has no command. He’s got great command.”
Russell Martin doubled in the second inning and scored the game’s first run on a bases-loaded walk to Furcal, who had a .345 career batting average and four home runs against Hernandez entering the game. Pierre followed with a slicing drive toward the line in shallow left field, but Byrnes made a diving catch.
Nomar Garciaparra, 0-for-11 lifetime against Hernandez, did not start. He pinch-hit for Penny in the sixth against Hernandez and drew a one-out walk that loaded the bases, after Wilson Betemit bunted into a force play at third. Furcal looked at a third strike and Pierre again lined out to Byrnes, leaving the bases loaded a second time.
The Dodgers had runners at second and third in the fifth. But Luis Gonzalez stranded them with a grounder to shortstop Alberto Callaspo, who was stationed to the right of second base on the unorthodox defensive shift against the former Diamondbacks World Series star.
Notes: OF Marlon Anderson started at 1B for the first time since the Dodgers acquired him from Washington last August. He committed an error in the second inning when he dropped a foul pop by Carlos Quentin, who then singled and was erased on Callaspo’s double-play grounder. Anderson started 15 games at 1B for the New York Mets in 2005. ... Arizona RHP Micah Owings, sidelined due to an injured right hamstring, will be activated from the DL on Thursday to start against Mets LHP Tom Glavine. ... Arizona 3B Chad Tracy left in the third because of a sore muscle in his back. SS Stephen Drew replaced him in the batting order and struck out all three times up.
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.