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SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
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.
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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.
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.
APTuesday night was an example. Going into top of the seventh, an inning Chamberlain used to be available to pitch, the Yankees were tied with Toronto 3-3. Going into the bottom of the seventh, the score was 9-3. Yankee fans had better get used to it.
But this move is for the long haul, both in this season and in future seasons. This year, the team has had some injuries, most notably to Alex Rodriguez and catcher Jorge Posada. A-Rod is back and Posada should rejoin the team this week. That’s a big addition.
And this year is hardly over. The Red Sox have lost David Ortiz for a month and maybe the season. That’s as big a loss as any team is likely to absorb, and it remains to be seen how Boston will react.
And if the Red Sox thunder on without missing a beat, so be it. The Yankees have decided that Chamberlain is going to be the backbone of their rotation for the next 10 or 15 years. They’ve rejected the idea of making him Mariano Rivera’s understudy, holding down the seventh and eighth innings for now and then taking over as closer when Rivera retires.
Plus, they need starting pitching. Only Chien-Ming Wang is pitching with any consistency, and nobody yet has won a pennant with one reliable pitcher. They drafted Chamberlain to be a starter, and that’s now what he is.
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You figure he’ll get better. You also figure with his fastball, he’s going to give up some home runs. Every game won’t be a shutout.
He didn’t do what they asked him to do, which was get through at least four innings and maybe five. But we saw he can handle the job. The Yankees lost the game, but it wasn’t about one game. It’s about the future that’s still murky for this season, but a lot brighter in the years ahead.
SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
DeMarco: Plug in a well-heeled ownership group and negotiate one of those mega-bucks TV deals that are going around, and the Dodgers could become the west coast version of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox.
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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.
