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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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.
CFT: Jordan Jefferson makes it clear he wasn't happy with LSU's game plan in the Tigers' BCS Championship Game loss to Alabama.
Golf's dream pairing - Woods and Mickelson - is on the course in the final round at Pebble Beach. Jason Sobel has 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.
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) -England defender Joleon Lescott preserved Manchester City's two-point lead in the Premier League by scoring a second-half winner in a 1-0 victory at Aston Villa on Sunday.
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.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Want to play in the NFL? It’s signup time for high school players and newly eligible college underclassmen.
A day after a federal judge struck down the league’s rule limiting the draft to players at least three years out of high school, the NFL set a March 1 deadline for those covered to apply for this year’s draft.
As part of the new rules issued Friday to comply with the decision, the newly eligible players must obtain a form from the NFL.
The March 1 date does not apply to players previously eligible to apply for the draft — they had a Jan. 15 deadline.
Players who became eligible because of Thursday’s decision in the case of Ohio State sensation Maurice Clarett must apply for the draft by Feb. 15 to be considered for invitations to the scouting combine, which starts Feb. 18 in Indianapolis.
The league notified U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin on Friday that it would file papers Tuesday seeking a stay of her decision, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said. The NFL’s new draft rules apply only if the Clarett decision remains in force.
Scheindlin has scheduled a hearing on the case for Wednesday, and it is possible the stay application will addressed then, Aiello said.
In her 71-page opinion, Scheindlin declared the rule violated antitrust laws and proposed alternatives.
“Age is obviously a poor proxy for NFL-readiness, as is a restriction based solely on height and weight,” she wrote. “Medical examinations and tests are available to measure an individual player’s maturity. The league could easily use those tests to screen out players who are not prepared to play in the NFL. ...
“By requiring draft prospects to submit to these examinations, the league could provide valuable information about player maturity to its teams and allow them to decide whether a prospect is worth selecting.”
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Jeremy Lin hit a free throw with 4.9 seconds left to overcome a dreadful second half and lift the New York Knicks to their fifth straight victory, 100-98, over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.
Wesseling: 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 AFC teams.
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