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Ryan Callahan scored three goals as the New York Rangers beat Philadelphia 5-2 on Saturday for their seventh straight win over the Flyers.
Jeremy Lin hit a free throw with 4.9 seconds left to overcome a dreadful second half and lift the New York Knicks to their fifth straight victory, 100-98, over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.
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.
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Move over, Hollywood and NFL types, golf's two real A-listers take center stage Sunday at Pebble Beach, both in need of a win.
The United States swept favored Switzerland out of the Davis Cup on Saturday when Mardy Fish and Mike Bryan beat Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.
Luis Suarez's refusal to shake hands with Patrice Evra overshadowed Manchester United's 2-1 win over rival Liverpool that lifted the defending champions to first place in the Premier League on Saturday.
Marlies Schild of Austria won her sixth World Cup slalom of the season Saturday after overall leader Lindsey Vonn and defending champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch crashed out in the opening run on the windy Pyrenees course.
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.
DURHAM, N.H. - A New Hampshire football player charged with murder in California is expected to turn himself in by Monday, authorities in San Diego say.
San Diego Police Lt. Kevin Rooney said Friday that prosecutors and the lawyer defending Henri “Hank” Hendricks were arranging his surrender to face charges that he was part of a gang that fatally beat a man in May. Before he was suspended Friday, Hendricks, 21, was a backup quarterback at the University of New Hampshire.
Paul Levikow, a spokesman for the San Diego District Attorney’s office, said in addition to the murder charge, Hendricks will face two assault and one battery charge stemming from a separate confrontation at a party on New Year’s Eve. Hendricks’ bail will be set at $750,000, Levikow said.
Police allege that Hendricks and four other San Diego-area men beat professional surfer Emery Kauanui Jr. of Hawaii at Kauanui’s home in San Diego’s La Jolla section on May 24. Kauanui, 24, died several days later.
“He had nothing to do with it,” Joe Cox, Hendricks’ lawyer, said of his client Friday.
According to court records cited by the San Diego Union-Tribune, Hendricks described a fight between Kauanui and one of the defendants and then Kauanui being felled, and striking his head, after being punched by a second defendant. Hendricks did not describe being physically involved himself.
Police allege the men are members of a gang known as the Bird Rock Bandits, something defense lawyers deny. According to court documents cited by the newspaper, police accuse the loose-knit group of about a dozen of harassing, intimidating and assaulting numerous people in La Jolla.
Cox said Hendricks has denied being part of the Bird Rock Bandits.
Hendricks is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in San Diego Superior Court. The others, who face similar charges, are Seth Cravens, 21; Eric House, 20; Orlando Osuna, 22; and Matthew Yanke, 21. All four pleaded innocent at a hearing Tuesday.
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Hendricks was not arrested immediately after the beating, but gave a statement to police a few days later. He wasn’t charged until Tuesday.
According to search warrant affidavits, Hendricks told detectives he was with Cravens, House, Yanke and Osuna at a bar the night of May 23 but had left when a confrontation occurred between House and Kauanui. Hendricks told police he and the others left the bar and drove to Kauanui’s home, where a second confrontation occurred. He said it ended when Kauanui got punched in the jaw and fell backward, hitting his head.
Rooney said he could not comment on what allegedly happened, but said the fact that prosecutors are treating it as a gang case raises the stakes under California law.
“That brings into it a whole other dimension,” he said.
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Jeremy Lin hit a free throw with 4.9 seconds left to overcome a dreadful second half and lift the New York Knicks to their fifth straight victory, 100-98, over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.
Doron Lamb hit a 3-pointer with 3:18 left to put No. 1 Kentucky ahead to stay, and the Wildcats took a big step toward a Southeastern Conference regular-season title by beating Vanderbilt 69-63 Saturday night for their 17th straight win.
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.
