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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
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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.
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INDIANAPOLIS - Revisions to the NCAA’s new report card on academic standards moved dozens of teams off the failing list, but dropped others into danger of punishment.
The adjustments released Monday by the NCAA resulted in nine football programs and six men’s basketball teams moving above the cutoff line for possible penalties, which could include the loss of scholarships.
The most prominent programs revised to now have passing scores are the men’s basketball teams at Connecticut, Temple and Houston, along with the football teams at Oklahoma State and Wyoming.
The revisions also moved 20 teams that initially had passing scores to the failing list, including the football teams at Tennessee and Mississippi State, the men’s basketball teams at Iowa, Utah and Washington, and UCLA women’s basketball.
The NCAA said the revisions to the preliminary report released in February leave 61 football teams, or 26 percent, below the cutoff score, the worst of any sport. The next worst sports were baseball, with a 21.5 percent failure rate, and men’s basketball at 18.4 percent.
Overall, 10 percent of men’s teams did not meet the academic standards; 2.6 percent of women’s teams were subpar.
The schools had through March to correct any reporting errors. Some schools criticized the initial results, pointing out errors and saying low scores could hurt recruiting.
Teams that consistently fall below the cutoff could face sanctions including scholarship losses.
No penalties will be enforced until data from the 2004-05 school year are included. Stronger penalties, such as bans on postseason play, are expected to be enforced by the fall of 2008.
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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.