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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.
Getty ImagesDerrick Rose has three older brothers and no father. By the time he was in 7th grade, growing up in the drug- and gang-infested Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's south side, he could dunk. And the word about his prodigious talent was getting out.
Rose's brothers -- Dwayne, Reggie and Allan -- banded together to become that father figure. One of them almost always took him to school or picked him up. Attended his practices.
"When we were looking at high schools for Derrick," Dwayne told Sports Illustrated last fall, "we looked at how many gang areas he'd have to go through to get to school."
The Rose brothers decided on Simeon Career Academy, which is poignant. The school's gym is named after Ben Wilson, a former student who was rated the No. 1 prep basketball player in the nation entering his senior season. However, on Nov. 20, 1984, Wilson, who was by every account a straight arrow and well-liked student, was shot and killed on the eve of his first basketball game. The motive was purely jealousy.
At Simeon the tradition is that the team's best player wears Wilson's No. 25, which fit snugly on Rose. He led Simeon to back-to-back state titles, the first time a Chicago Public League school had ever done so. And when it came time for Rose, whose brothers prohibited him from speaking to the media (or most any other adult not in their family), to announce his college, he held a joint-press conference that included two teammates who were signing with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"They deserve a press conference, too," said Rose.
Derrick Rose has five tattoos. He also had a 3.2 GPA in high school and a trio of older siblings (his mom, Brenda, oversaw his non-basketball development) who relished being their brother's keeper.
Joey Dorsey's father, Richard Griffin, parted ways with his mother, Charlene Dorsey, when he was still in the womb. Griffin and Dorsey occasionally saw one another for the first two years of Dorsey's life. Then, for 11 years, Griffin disappeared.
When Dorsey was 13, Charlene contacted one of his uncles and inquired as to whether Richard Griffin would like to meet his son. She was told that he would rather not.
"You can imagine what that did to my son," Charlene told the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "It crushed him. It crushed him."
In November of 2005, early in Dorsey's sophomore season at Memphis, Griffin contacted Charlene. He now lived on Long Island and was keeping track of his son's basketball exploits. Griffin asked Charlene if he might attend the preseason NIT at Madison Square Garden and see Dorsey for the first time since he was an infant. Memphis officials made the ticket arrangements ... and then Griffin failed to show.
No one in Joey Dorsey's family ever graduated from high school. By summer's end, if he keeps it real, Dorsey will graduate from college.
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.
Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 15 points and Evan Smotrycz added 13, helping No. 22 Michigan remain unbeaten at home with a 70-61 win over Illinois on Sunday.
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