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.
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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.
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.
APYou can’t help but think while watching them on a night like Monday against the Packers how good this team could be if it just had a quarterback who could rise even to the level of mediocre. This isn’t something new with the Bears.
The last time they had a competent quarterback was in the mid-1980s, when Jim McMahon was at the controls of the team’s only Super Bowl squad.
Before and since, Chicago has gone through more bad quarterbacks than any four teams in the league. There is no conceivable reason for that to be the case.
There have to be at least a dozen back-up NFL quarterbacks who are better than Kyle Orton or any of the other impostors who have called signals for the Bears over the decades. Where were they when Kerry Collins, the hero of Tennessee, was available? How do the Patriots find Matt Cassel? Why didn’t they take a shot at Kurt Warner?
It’s not just this year. The Bears have turned lousy quarterbacking into a perverse art form. Look at the guys they’ve had in just the last decade: Brian Griese, Orton, Rex Grossman, Chad Hutchinson, Craig Krenzel, Jonathan Quinn, Kordell Stewart, Henry Burris, Chris Chandler, Jim Miller, Cade McNown, Shane Matthews and Moses Moreno.
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Keep going back and the list gets no more impressive and the names no more recognizable. Every year the Bears go into the draft and every year they come out without a decent starting quarterback. And every year they go into the season knowing that it’s all going to come down to defense and special teams.
You have to sit in awe that they’re as good as they are. Monday night, they showed again why their fans are so devoted to them.
They’ve turned winning ugly into an art form. You don’t have to enjoy watching it, but you have to admire it.
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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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Paul Pierce has been around long enough to know what Rajon Rondo's performance can mean for the aging Boston Celtics.
