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Ryan Callahan scored three goals as the New York Rangers beat Philadelphia 5-2 on Saturday for their seventh straight win over the Flyers.
Jeremy Lin hit a free throw with 4.9 seconds left to overcome a dreadful second half and lift the New York Knicks to their fifth straight victory, 100-98, over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.
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The United States swept favored Switzerland out of the Davis Cup on Saturday when Mardy Fish and Mike Bryan beat Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.
Luis Suarez's refusal to shake hands with Patrice Evra overshadowed Manchester United's 2-1 win over rival Liverpool that lifted the defending champions to first place in the Premier League on Saturday.
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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WAUSAU, Wis. - Darin "Doogie'' Weiks is a high school football celebrity in central Wisconsin, thanks to playing one game that was his first and also his last.
"I never thought it would happen,'' the Athens High School senior said Friday. "This is very special and the best thing in my life. I wanted to play football pretty bad.''
Weiks, 17, has a rare, genetic liver disease that prevented him from playing the sport — until Thursday night's 33-19 win over Abbotsford.
A friend on the team suggested that Weiks, who plays on the Bluejays' basketball and baseball teams, be the kicker for the last game. The coaches and his parents agreed, and after just three days of practice, Weiks pulled on No. 5 for the season finale.
Since middle school, Weiks wanted to play football, but the chance was too risky of a hit rupturing his enlarged liver. He has an ailment called glycogen storage disease, he said. Last month, doctors found cancerous tumors and Weiks is now on a list for a liver transplant.
All that was forgotten when Weiks trotted onto the field for his first extra point try Thursday night in Athens, a farming town of about 1,000 people 30 miles northwest of Wausau, as his father, the field announcer, called out his name and number.
"I heard him. It was pretty special,'' the teen recalled Friday in a telephone interview from the 200-student high school.
His teammates urged him on.
"They told me that it didn't matter if I made it or missed it,'' Weiks said. "Just that they were happy that I could be out there with them.''
With his mom in the stands next to a banner reading, "This Weik's Special is a Kicker,'' the "pretty pumped up'' rookie lined up for the kick.
"It went right down the middle,'' he said. "I didn't really hear the crowd, but I guess they were pretty loud.''
For the night, Weiks made three of five extra point tries.
"It was pretty special to be part of the team,'' said the senior who hopes to study nursing after he graduates. "I was just so grateful that all my friends would be able to do that for me — being out there with them guys on the last game of our career.''
The team finished 3-6, out of the playoffs, but Weiks said he felt like a celebrity Friday — and a little like the star of the 1993 movie "Rudy,'' an account of Daniel "Rudy'' Ruettiger and his dream of playing football at Notre Dame.
While he awaits a call for the liver transplant, Weiks intends to continue his athletic career.
"I am pretty happy,'' he said. "I start basketball Nov. 17.''
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.
NEW YORK (AP) - As the glow fades from the Giants' Super Bowl triumph, some New York sports fans are tuning in to basketball and hockey, with the Rangers in first place and the Knicks' overnight sensation, Jeremy Lin, sparking "Lin-sanity.''
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Silva: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for NFC teams.