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.
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.
APNow all Gillispie needs is one of the tour busses like Smith had in Minnesota.
“I’m looking forward to meeting every single person in Kentucky if I get a chance to,” he said.
Well, he shouldn’t expect a welcome mat in Louisville.
Beilein, who paid $1.5 million to West Virginia for taking the job at Michigan with five years remaining on his deal, said those same fans who are happy now with a fresh face and a new voice could be the same ones setting up firecoach.com Web sites when the wins don’t come as quickly as they’d like.
“People who have won national championships before, I think their patience line might be different,” he said.
Smith knows all about coaching under the weight of impatient fans. He won’t get that in Minnesota where the Gophers went 9-22 last season and suffered through the academic fraud scandal under Clem Haskins and only one NCAA tournament in seven-plus seasons under Don Monson. There are no immediate Big Ten title expectations for now.
“I think they’re a little more realistic than that, coming off the year we had,” Smith said. “They did win nine games. They have some solid kids returning.”
Huggins is enjoying a happy homecoming in his return to West Virginia. He was a former captain and two-time academic All-American during his 1975-1977 playing days, and spent the first year of his coaching career with the Mountaineers as a graduate assistant.
Huggins is finding it easy to reconnect with old friends and fans.
“I was there for five years, so you take four years on either side and it’s like 13 years of people you went to school with,” Huggins said.
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.
Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 15 points and Evan Smotrycz added 13, helping No. 22 Michigan remain unbeaten at home with a 70-61 win over Illinois on Sunday.
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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.