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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.
Eleven shots separated Phil and Tiger Sunday at Pebble Beach as Lefty secured his 40th Tour win. Jason Sobel had 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.
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.
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Getty ImagesMagician-daredevil David Blaine had mixed martial arts fighter and YouTube sensation Kimbo Slice deliver two vicious punches in his abdomen — and survived to talk about it, according to TheBlemish.com.
Blaine, who did the stunt for his "Dive of Death" special on ABC, referred to the death decades ago of famous magician Harry Houdini, who purportedly died of a ruptured appendix after asking a volunteer to hit him in the stomach.
In the video, Blaine is rocked back several feet after being hit but doesn't go down and appears basically unhurt by the hits.
Meanwhile, Blaine says he’s unhappy with how he ended his latest stunt: hanging upside-down without a net high over Central Park for 60 hours.
The 35-year-old endurance artist, who completed the stunt Wednesday night, expressed his disappointment in an appearance Thursday morning on “Live With Regis and Kelly.”
“I had dreamed up the most amazing ending for a stunt ever,” he said.
Blaine said his grand finale of diving from a platform 44 feet to the ground while attached to a harness didn’t go according to plan. He was supposed to jump and, at 10 feet, be swept away by a bunch of helium-filled balloons.
Instead, he dangled awkwardly for a moment before disappearing in an ascent into the night sky.
Blaine said ABC, which aired the event in a two-hour special called “David Blaine: Dive of Death,” had encouraged him not to dive because of high winds.
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Blaine added: “I know that it didn’t work right when all my friends called up and said, ‘Wait, what happened? I’m confused.”’
Did his head feel heavy with blood during his upside-down act?
“In the beginning it did,” he said. “At the end of the first day I thought I wasn’t going to make it. I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I didn’t want to disappoint everybody, so I kept pushing and going as hard as I could.”
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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After leading by 18 points in the first half, the Los Angeles Lakers were staring at a four-point deficit with less than two minutes to play.
