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SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
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PBT: Jeremy Lin wasn't his hot self on Saturday, but he still led the Knicks to victory.
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.
CFT: Jordan Jefferson makes it clear he wasn't happy with LSU's game plan in the Tigers' BCS Championship Game loss to Alabama.
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.
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) -England defender Joleon Lescott preserved Manchester City's two-point lead in the Premier League by scoring a second-half winner in a 1-0 victory at Aston Villa on Sunday.
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.
APLahudood captured the Filly and Mare Turf while earning a Beyer Figure of 105, a victory that makes her the slight favorite for an Eclipse Award as top female turf runner. She defeated the previously unbeaten Nashoba's Key, who won races on both turf and artificial surfaces this year, putting her in contention for both champion older filly or mare and champion female turf horse.
Lahudood has been retired, Ginger Punch is likely to be retired, but Nashoba's Key will race next year.
The battle for champion male turf runner should be between Breeders' Cup winners Kip Deville (Mile), who got a Beyer Figure of 108, and English Channel (Turf), who received a Beyer Figure of 111 in his career finale. English Channel should be favored in that category.
Even though Lawyer Ron ran poorly in the Classic, he did finish second to Curlin in the Jockey Club Gold Cup and won both the Whitney and Woodward at Saratoga to make him the favorite for champion older male. But Eclipse voters might circle back and consider Invasor, who had to be retired earlier this year following victories in the Donn Handicap and Dubai World Cup.
Another Breeders' Cup absentee, Belmont Stakes and Kentucky Oaks winner Rags to Riches, is favored to win the Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old filly, though her Todd Pletcher-trained stablemate Octave -who finished a close third in the Distaff - might have been a champion had she been born any other year.
Friday's three Breeders' Cup races included one race that should determine a champion. This year, for the first time, an Eclipse Award will be given to champion female sprinter, and Maryfield likely secured that title with her win in the Filly and Mare Sprint, in which she got a Beyer Figure of 101.
There is no Eclipse Award for milers or 2-year-old turf runners. Corinthian, in his final start before going to stud, got a Beyer Figure of 119 when winning Friday's Dirt Mile. Nownownow got a Beyer Figure of 85 for winning the inaugural Juvenile Turf.
Among trainers, Bob Baffert will have two champions (Indian Blessing and Midnight Lute), but Pletcher could have as many as three (English Channel, Lawyer Ron, and Rags to Riches).
Garrett Gomez made himself the front-runner for an overdue first Eclipse Award as champion jockey with victories on Indian Blessing and Midnight Lute to help widen his lead in purse earnings for the year.
The first of three pools of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager begins its three-day run on Friday and the bet's opening scenario is very similar to each of its opening pools since the wager was created in 1999.
It's first time that Classic will be broadcast in primetime on Nov. 3.
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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.
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