Super Bowl XLVI
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SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
PHT: Some purists might try to poke holes in Detroit’s 19 straight wins at Joe Louis Arena, but it’s an impressive run nonetheless.
Buried on the bench a little more than a week ago, the Knicks' Jeremy Lin is now the toast of New York.
Arc: With 38 teams projected to be on the NCAA Tournament bubble, this is a big weekend to boost a tournament profile.
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.
Wayne Rooney scored twice as Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1 in an ill-tempered match Saturday to provisionally move to the top of the Premier League.
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.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Syracuse has agreed to play three home games against Notre Dame and Southern California over the next seven years in the new stadium at the Meadowlands.
Two people with knowledge of the agreement, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official announcement has not been made, said the Orange will face USC in 2012 and Notre Dame in 2014 and 2016.
The new privately owned $1.6 billion stadium is being built by the Giants and the Jets of the NFL. It is scheduled to open next season.
The Jets and Giants have scheduled a news conference for Tuesday to announce the games.
The new stadium will seat about 80,000 people, 30,000 more than capacity at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse’s home field.
Once one of the powers of college football, Syracuse (3-9) has fallen on hard times in recent years. The Orange have not played in a bowl game since 2004 and finished last in the Big East Conference last season and fired coach Greg Robinson.
Doug Marrone will have 13 starters returning in his first season as coach.
Pete Carroll’s Trojans have been one of the best programs in the country this decade, with a run of seven straight Pac-10 titles, BCS bowl games and 11-win seasons.
Notre Dame, a football independent and a Big East member in most other sports, has agreed to try to schedule three games a season against Big East opponents.
While the Irish have been scheduling some home games at neutral sites, such as next season’s game against Army at Yankee Stadium, the games at the new stadium which has not been named, would be home games for the Orange.
The Irish have played Syracuse six times, most recently an embarrassing 24-23 loss last season when the Irish gave up two fourth-quarter touchdowns to an Orange squad that had scored two fourth-quarter TDs all season and finished with nine losses. The series is tied 3-3.
A telephone message seeking comment was left for Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick.
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Jeremy Lin had the most astounding performance of his remarkable week, scoring a career-high 38 points and outdueling Kobe Bryant as the New York Knicks held off the Los Angeles Lakers 92-85 on Friday night.
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.
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