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 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.
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.
Euro Roundup: First-place Manchester City won 1-0 at Aston Villa on Sunday on Joleon Lescott's goal in the 63rd minute, maintaining its two-point lead over Manchester United in the Premier League.
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.
WASHINGTON - Beaming like a kid who just met his favorite sports star, Mayor Anthony A. Williams signed legislation Wednesday to bring major league baseball back to the nation’s capital.
“This is one of my proudest days as mayor,” Williams said.
His signature came after weeks of political wrangling as several members of the District of Columbia Council balked at an earlier plan to finance a new stadium along the Southeast waterfront.
Under the resolution approved by baseball owners on Dec. 3, the last step for the Montreal Expos to become the Washington Nationals is for commissioner Bud Selig to declare that “arrangements (are) being made that are satisfactory to the commissioner for the use of RFK Stadium for the 2005 season.”
It would be the first move by a major league team since the expansion Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers after the 1971 season.
Supporters and opponents of building a new, publicly financed stadium for the Washington-bound Montreal Expos watched officials amend their initial deal with Major League Baseball to include private financing. Big league baseball officials responded by suspending the team’s promotional and business operations.
So Williams, Council Chairwoman Linda Cropp and MLB officials negotiated a deal that would allow some private financing. MLB and the city also agreed to split the price of insurance to cover cost overruns or construction delays.
“Together we worked through our differences and developed the legislation that I’m proud to sign,” Williams said Wednesday, sporting a red and white Washington Nationals cap.
He called the signing a “symbol of how we are keeping our commitments. Yes, to Major League Baseball, but also to keeping our city moving forward.”
The legislation clears the way to renovate RFK Stadium, where the Nationals will play beginning in 2005. It also allows the city to sell up to $584 million in bonds for construction of a 41,000-seat stadium.
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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.