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.
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.
Monba suffers hoof injury
And what happened to Monba, the lukewarm 3.80-to-1 favorite, who finished dead last, almost 40 lengths behind the winner?
The son of Maria’s Mon got bounced around pretty good rounding the first turn and suffered a bad cut — “a quarter- or 50-cent-sized chunk” — on the inside of his right-hind hoof, DRF reported Monday.
Trainer Todd Pletcher said he was hopeful the wound would heal within “a week or two” and said the colt would most likely be pointed toward the Lane's End (Gr. 2) at Turfway Park on March 22 or the Blue Grass Stakes (Gr. 1) at Keeneland on April 12.
As interesting as the Fountain of Youth was, a race a half hour later that lacked even an iota of drama was the highlight of the day for me.
Defending champ War Pass looked like a monster as he pulled Cornelio Velazquez around the Gulf Stream oval even though the jockey put him in a hammerlock almost the moment the gate opened.
He beat absolutely nobody, but he sure looked good doing it, stopping the clock in a decent time of 1:36.38 for the one-turn mile (not sure if anyone has retimed that one yet!) and earning a Beyer figure of 97.
Zito told the DRF that War Pass will race next in the Tampa Bay Derby (Gr. 3) on March 15. The two-time Derby winner has said previously that he will likely run the son of Cherokee Run one more time before the Derby.
Big races this weekend: The Sham Stakes at Santa Anita and the John Battaglia at Turfway Park. Leading West Coast hopefuls El Gato Malo and Colonel John are among those expected to contest the former.
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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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.