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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.
Lefty wins his 40th PGA Tour event with his never-ending supply of tricks up his sleeve. What We Learned this week at Pebble Beach.
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.
APHow do you do all of that with the biggest budget in the National League?
The Wilpons ought to be asking that question. Instead, they’re firing the manager and half the coaches in the middle of the night and congratulating themselves for being tough and proactive.
When owners are losers, so are their teams. You can pretty much count on that. It’s what we’re seeing in New York. Just because you own a team and have a lot of money doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing. If there was any doubt about that, the Wilpons have erased it.
The New York Mess can say that the team’s just 6.5 games out in the NL East, but they’re not going to catch Philly, and they’re not going to get a wild card, not with the lineup they have; not with Wagner as the last line of defense.
This is essentially the same team that authored that historic collapse at the end of last year, and it’s looking more and more like that wasn’t an aberration but a true reflection of what they’re made of.
Willie Randolph is a great baseball man who deserves another shot somewhere else, in a place where management is sane and the roster isn’t stacked with underachievers, head cases, and superannuated superstars basking in the fading glory of years gone by.
The Wilpons and Minaya think they did something important by firing Randolph. They’re about to discover they did nothing, because the problem isn’t on the bench, it’s upstairs, where the guys who built the Mess work.
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