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.
Getty ImagesHe has a sense of humor, and during his rare breaks from the game after the season, he’s actually quite engaging and amiable. But once he switches into football mode, you’d swear he was born with a rare birth defect that rendered him incapable of smiling.
The media put up with it for a while because he was winning, and that trumps everything. But after a while, it got tiresome, as did his reluctance to part with information. You’d think he’d mellow, if even a little bit, but he hasn’t.
To the fans, he comes off as cold-hearted and unsentimental. It doesn’t matter how popular or good a player is, if he doesn’t want to accept his assigned position in the team’s salary structure, he’s gone.
That attitude has made the Patriots great. Belichick is all about team, not individuals, and when they were winning their Super Bowls, we marveled at how selfless they all were and we congratulated Belichick as making something that was greater than the sum of its parts.
But now they’re seen as a machine, picking parts off the shelf, plugging them in, and grinding on, made more of cogs and gears than flesh and blood.
The cheating episode in the year’s first game against the Jets wouldn’t have harmed most teams. NFL fans are inured to cheating. They may burst with righteous indignation at a baseball player caught taking steroids, but a football player caught doing the same thing receives virtually no criticism.
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And now they want to see the undefeated Patriots get lassoed and hogtied, even if it means rooting for the Cowboys to do it.
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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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.
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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