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The Detroit Red Wings equaled an NHL record with their 20th straight win at home, beating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 Sunday night on the strength of Johan Franzen's tiebreaking goal early in the third period.
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: Syracuse is among a solid group of No. 1 seeds in our latest tournament projections, but the middle of the pack is much more murky.
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.
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods greeted their Sunday pairing at Pebble Beach with optimism. But the day would end happily only for one.
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.
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.
CHICAGO - Injured Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez missed his first game of the season, out for Tuesday night’s matchup with the Chicago White Sox.
Rodriguez, batting .308 with four homers and 10 RBIs, strained his right quadriceps Sunday at Baltimore. Morgan Ensberg was listed as the starting third baseman against Chicago.
Rodriguez will rejoin the team on Thursday. He will be re-evaluated then to see how well his quadriceps has responded to treatment. It was unknown when he would play again.
The third baseman was in Miami, where his wife gave birth to their second daughter Monday night.
“Everyone is going well. A new baby girl, so that’s exciting,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Tuesday.
“Obviously he has his little quad problem. He’ll rejoin us Thursday. I don’t know if he’ll be able to play Thursday, we’ll just how he how the treatments go and how he responds to it.”
The Yankees want to make sure they don’t hurry him back too soon.
“We’ll make that evaluation on Thursday, where we think he’s at,” Girardi said. “One thing you can’t do is rush him and then lose him for a long period of time.”
But then again, the Yankees need him back whenever he’s ready.
“We don’t want to DL him if he could be back four or five, six, seven days,” Girardi said.
Girardi said Rodriguez was planning to get treatment Tuesday.
“Alex is such a great conditioned athlete that hopefully. ... maybe he responds quicker to treatment than a normal being,” Girardi said. “He said he was going to shoot for Friday, maybe Thursday, but he didn’t think he’d be able to play before that.”
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