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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.
APBut everything changed with the trip down I-95 to Citizens Bank Park.
Rodriguez's two-run homer in the third inning of Game 3 was a momentum-changer. The Phillies had grabbed a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second against Pettitte, but Rodriguez answered with a memorable, opposite-field shot off a television camera that extended a bit too far over the right-field wall.
It took the first usage of instant replay in the World Series to decide it, overturning the original ruling of a double. And by the fifth inning, the Yankees took the lead and chased Cole Hamels, and hung on for an 8-6 win in the series' pivotal game.
You know the Phillies were fearful of the damage Rodriguez could do by the way they pitched him throughout the series — hard and in — sometimes too far in.
Rodriguez twice was hit by a pitch in Game 3, and then again in his first at-bat in Game 4. Later in that game, he got a measure of revenge with the go-ahead, ninth-inning RBI in the Yankees' 7-4 victory.
“There's no question; I've never had a bigger hit,'' Rodriguez said of the RBI single to left field.
“I made an adjustment after the first two games. What I was doing was very simple; I was expanding the strike zone, and that's something I didn't do against Minnesota or Anaheim. When I get good pitches to hit, and I put a good swing on it, good things usually happen.''
If that sounds like a calmer, more-relaxed Rodriguez than the one who played the worry-wart like no other superstar before him, you're not the first one to notice.
“I wasn't here before this season, so I couldn't tell you how he was before that,'' A.J. Burnett said. “But I know he's about as relaxed as I could imagine him being.
“It doesn't matter what the situation is when he comes up. He's confident, he's loose, and he's hitting the ball, and he's having a blast.''
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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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