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.
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.
APAnd if anyone had a right to be ticked off, it’s A-Rod. After all he’s done to be perfect, here are the Red Sox, a scruffy bunch of boors, making fun of his talents, dissing him in print, laughing about him on the public airwaves.
But Rodriguez hasn't retorted, and his Yankee teammates haven't exactly run to his defense. When asked to respond to Nixon's remarks, shortstop Derek Jeter, catcher Jorge Posada and manager Joe Torre all gave diplomatic answers, and not the ones you'd expect from guys ready to dive into a fox hole with A-Rod.
Rodriguez tried being the perfect athlete last year, and look where it got him: a .286 average, 36 home runs and 106 RBI. He wasn’t even the third-best third baseman in the American League let alone the best player in baseball.
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But he never took a bat to the water cooler, never threw a batting helmet, never blew off the press in the clubhouse. Instead, he slapped the ball out of Bronson Arroyo’s hand after hitting a weak, rally-ending ground ball.
I don’t blame him for trying to knock the ball away, even if it was illegal. At that point, you’re just trying to get on base and you let the ump sort out the legality of your actions. But I’d have preferred if he had run Arroyo over — that would have been a better way to vent frustration and anger at himself for such a weak at-bat and at the Red Sox just for being the Red Sox. And no one would have said anything other than that it was a hard-nosed play.
He had a lot of time to think about how he behaved, a lot of time to build up a head of rage at Boston, a lot of time to think of a way to strike back.
And what does he come up with? They’re right? That’s an answer?
Even if they are right, A-Rod can’t think that. I want rage. I want passion. I want a guy determined to go out there and make those arrogant S.O.B.'s eat their words.
I’m tired of perfection, and he should be to. It’s a new season. If there’s still a human being inside the shell of A-Rod, it’s time to let him loose.
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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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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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.
