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.
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· Known as “The Great Dane” and “Gambling Gus”
· Won his first WSOP bracelet in the 2010 WSOPE £10,000 NLHE High Roller Heads-Up Event, and later in the year won the 2010 FullTiltPoker.com Poker Million IX in England, good for $1 million, joining Michael Mizrachi as poker’s only players who have at least four $1 million paydays
· Lifetime live tournament winnings in excess of $9.38 million, and ranks 16th on the all-time money list
· He and Carlos Mortensen are the only players in history to have won 3 WPT open titles
· His success as a player has been instrumental in fueling the tremendous increase of poker’s popularity among European players
NHPC record: 6-7
NHPC total winnings: $75,000
2005: Defeated Curtis Bibb before losing to Chris Ferguson in Round 2
2006: Eliminated in Round 1 by Shawn Sheikhan
2007: Eliminated in Round 1 by Shawn Sheikhan
2008: Defeated Don Cheadle, Scotty Nguyen, Phil Laak before losing to Phil Ivey in Round 4 ($75,000)
2009: Defeated David Benyamine before losing to Huck Seed in Round 2
2010: Defeated Greg Raymer before losing to Paul Wasicka in Round 2
2011: Eliminated in Round 1 by Gavin Smith
PAD record: 1-6
Match 1: 1st ($120,000)
Match 7: 3rd
Match 12: 6th
Match 15: 3rd
Match 20: 5th
Match 26: 4th
Match 28: 5th
Weeks 52-53: Cash game participant
Weeks 60-61: Cash game participant
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.
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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.