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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
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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.
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MIAMI - Jamaal Magloire has worn four different uniforms over the past three seasons, and spent last season as a forgotten man at the end of the New Jersey and Dallas benches.
He doesn’t think he’s finished, and the Miami Heat apparently agree.
The Heat signed the former All-Star center on Tuesday, four days after agreeing to basic terms with the nine-year veteran. Magloire will likely compete with Mark Blount when training camp begins later this month for the starting center position.
“This is an opportunity for me to re-energize my career,” the 30-year-old Magloire said. “I love this game so much and the fact that I didn’t play last year just makes me more vicious and more hungry to go out there and get the job done this year. The memories I have, it’s all motivation now.”
The 6-foot-11, 265-pound Magloire has averaged 8.6 points and 7.2 rebounds in his career. He spent his first five seasons with the Charlotte and New Orleans Hornets, and has now been with five teams since the start of the 2005-06 season — Milwaukee, Portland, New Jersey, Dallas and now Miami.
“He will dramatically support our post position,” Heat president Pat Riley said. “He is an excellent rebounder with a big body. On the defensive end he will plug up the paint and the offensive end he can score. We feel that this is definitely the right place for him.”
Riley and Magloire have been linked from afar for years — both wore No. 42 at Kentucky.
The Heat sought another big man this summer, in part because veteran Alonzo Mourning — who suffered a serious knee and leg injury last December — is not expected back before the regular season begins. Mourning has said several times he will cancel plans to retire if his body allows him to continue playing this coming season.
Miami went 15-67 last season, suffering through countless injuries that prematurely ended the seasons of stalwarts Dwyane Wade, Udonis Haslem, Shawn Marion and Mourning, among others.
But after seeing Wade’s stellar play at the Olympics, and with the acquisitions of Michael Beasley and Mario Chalmers helping revitalize the Heat this summer, Magloire said he’s confident Miami won’t in any way resemble the team that was on the floor last season.
“I see this team as a playoff team,” Magloire said. “I see this team with just as much of a chance as any other team, especially in this division, to win the division, to win the East and to fare well.”
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Magloire’s best season with 2003-04, when he averaged 13.6 points and 10.3 rebounds for New Orleans and earned his lone All-Star selection. He averaged 1.8 points in 31 games last season with New Jersey and Dallas.
“Last year, opportunity didn’t knock,” Magloire said.
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
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