Super Bowl XLVI
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.
SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
Ryan Callahan scored three goals as the New York Rangers beat Philadelphia 5-2 on Saturday for their seventh straight win over the Flyers.
Buried on the bench a little more than a week ago, the Knicks' Jeremy Lin is now the toast of New York.
Arc: After heartbreaking loss, Tyler Zeller and No. 5 North Carolina made an impressive statement with a 70-52 win over No. 19 Virginia.
CFT: Jordan Jefferson makes it clear he wasn't happy with LSU's game plan in the Tigers' BCS Championship Game loss to Alabama.
Charlie Wi holds a three-shot lead at the midway point of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and Tiger Woods sits six back.
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.
Marlies Schild of Austria won her sixth World Cup slalom of the season Saturday after overall leader Lindsey Vonn and defending champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch crashed out in the opening run on the windy Pyrenees course.
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.
APBaseball commissioner Bud Selig on Wednesday left open the possibility of punishing New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez for using performance-enhancing drugs. Selig also said he might consider amending the record book to acknowledge steroids use by players.
Selig said he would look into the possibility of reinstating Hank Aaron — a personal friend — as No. 1 on the all-time home run list and attach asterisks or some other note to the records of players involved in steroids use.
"Once you start tinkering, you can create more problems," Selig said, USA Today reported. "But I'm not dismissing it. I'm concerned. I'd like to get some more evidence."
Barry Bonds, who is widely suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs, is baseball's all-time home run leader with 762. Aaron has 755. Rodriguez is 12th with 553.
Selig told USA Today in a telephone interview he "would have to think about" taking action against Rodriguez, saying the player broke the law by using PEDs. Selig refused to be specific about possible penalties, and he indicated a decision would not be made quickly.
Rodriguez admitted Monday he used banned substances from 2001-03 as a member of the Texas Rangers. Two days earlier, Sports Illustrated reported Rodriguez was one of 104 major league players who failed what was supposed to be a confidential drug test in '03. MLB and the players association began a full drug testing program in 2004.
Donald Fehr, the association's executive director, told USA Today he was not expecting Selig to take any action. "I would be surprised if there was an attempt to do it," the newspaper quoted Fehr as saying. "I don't know anything about that."
The Yankees have said they would not discipline Rodriguez.
Also, Wednesday, ESPN.com reported that at least eight players among those 104 tested positive for over-the-counter supplements that weren't banned by baseball until 2005. The website cited an unidentified "highly placed Major League Baseball source."
Meantime, the chairman of the committee that determines the banned-substances list for the World Anti-Doping Agency says he still has plenty of questions for Rodriguez.
"In doping, the devil is in the details, and I think he needs to come forward with the details," Gary Wadler said.
Among the questions Wadler would like to ask:
"Those questions have to be asked and answered, and not only answered, but it has to answered in a convincing manner, not through a handler or a Word Smither," Wadler said.
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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.
