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SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
The Detroit Red Wings equaled an NHL record with their 20th straight win at home, beating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 Sunday night on the strength of Johan Franzen's tiebreaking goal early in the third period.
PBT: Boston's Rajon Rondo continues to be named in trade talks, which is madness. The Celtics guard creates offense and makes everyone around him better, which was evident in Sunday's win over the Bulls.
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.
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods greeted their Sunday pairing at Pebble Beach with optimism. But the day would end happily only for one.
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.
Getty ImagesHe showed how smart he got after reading the overnight reviews early Tuesday. Instead of waiting to see how the weather turned out, he noted that rain and maybe snow was on the way and postponed the resumption of Game 5 until Wednesday — or Thanksgiving, if necessary.
We can only hope that on his day off, he reviews his position on instant replay so we can get a few calls right. When umpires can’t tell when a tag is made or a batter hit by a pitch, it’s time to broaden that technology’s reach.
There is precedent for ordering a change like that in the middle of a Series. During last year’s Stanley Cup playoffs, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman changed the unsportsmanlike conduct rule in the middle of the Devils-Rangers series to keep Sean Avery from being a jerk. No one complained because it was the right thing to do.
It’s asking too much of Selig to do something like that. Good managers are proactive. He’s reactive. You can’t even ask him to get with the 21st century, because he has yet to exit the 19th.
On Tuesday, it was reported that Selig got his weather reports from the Philadelphia grounds crew. That’s all very fine, but can’t Major League Baseball with all its resources order its own report? Because if he’d looked at the radar, as many of us at home did, by the fourth inning he’d have seen a solid blob of rain parked on Philadelphia and extending for 100 miles or so in every direction.
But that would have required planning ahead for every contingency. And that’s been beyond his capacity from the day he took the job. No matter what the crisis, from steroids to the all-star game to instant replay and now to this, he’s always a day late, deaf and blind to the looming catastrophe, waiting for the plane to crash before he acts.
As I said, he’s a swell fellow and a great guy, beloved by all who know him. But he’s got to go.
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