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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.
PBT: Boston's Rajon Rondo continues to be named in trade talks, which is madness. The Celtics guard creates offense and makes everyone around him better, which was evident in Sunday's win over the Bulls.
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.
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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.
Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
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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But Clemens is worse than all of them, because at least none of them stooped to the depths that the Rocket did to weasel his way out of all the accusations of his alleged drug use. He tried to convince Congress that he never told his teammate and training partner Andy Pettitte about his use of human growth hormone by saying his good buddy “misremembered” what he said. Clemens said he told him it was his wife who got a syringe full of HGH injected into her by McNamee, not him. He told Congress that it was his mother’s idea for him to start taking those so-called vitamin B-12 injections after one congressman wondered what legitimate medical reasons he had for using the drug.
He tried to come up with all sorts of alibis, but none of them passed the sniff test. What it all came down to was that no matter how smarmy McNamee might look, Clemens still came out looking more smarmy.
And now all I know is that Roger Clemens has created an impossible situation for his Hall of Fame chances. If Mark McGwire destroyed his entrance into Cooperstown with his awkward refusal to answer any questions before Congress, then Clemens absolutely nuked his chances with his clumsy attempts to outsmart Congress.
We thought just a few years ago that the moment Clemens retired, his next stop would be in Cooperstown. Today we know something entirely different.
His Hall of Fame path has been redirected like some bad roll of the dice in a Monopoly game.
And unless you have a “get out of jail free” card handy, Roger, it no longer looks like you’ll be stopping at Cooperstown any time soon.
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