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SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
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.
NBCSports.com illustrationThe cutaways the Fox network keeps making to Hudson cheering from the Yankee Stadium stands with Jay-Z make for much better TV than the relentless shots we also get of former mayor Rudy Giuliani’s grinding his teeth and quivering with anxiety beneath his Yankees cap.
The Kate-Rod relationship has given the gossipmongers at the New York Post and TMZ a new sports ‘It’ couple to obsess on, too, besides those old married fogies Tom Brady and Giselle Bundchen. It’s even been amusing to see Kate-Rod subjected to the same panting, tried-and-true menu of speculation since they started dating in May: Is that a diamond engagement ring Hudson is wearing?! Did she get A-Rod to covert to Buddhism same as Madonna pulled him into Kabbalah? Are Kate-Rod expecting a baby? The answers: No. No. And God, no.
For all we know, the best thing Hudson has done for A-Rod hasn’t been sleeping with him. I like to think maybe she told him he was dropping his front shoulder when he swings at the breaking ball, and that’s why he went on this tear and loves her so much. That would be a great story. Let’s hear Tim McCarver or TMZ break down that.
Instead, for a change, what we have is a nice story revolving around A-Rod with an ending or meaning that’s hard to predict.
A cynic might say the hot streak A-Rod is on just underscores how the past damnations were right and the only thing stopping him all along was himself.
A fabulist might say the run that A-Rod is on is a classic tale of redemption.
A moralist might say there goes the sports world again, celebrating another jock who had to screw up to rise up.
But a die-hard Yankees fan says, Who cares? Just shut up already and let the man play.
SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
DeMarco: Plug in a well-heeled ownership group and negotiate one of those mega-bucks TV deals that are going around, and the Dodgers could become the west coast version of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox.
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