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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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.
ReutersI'm so not a gambling man that I rarely even look at the newspaper line. If I had a dollar for every time I was unable to answer this question — "What's the line on this game?" — I might have enough money to place a fair-sized bet.
So I was more than a little surprised when I discovered, while sifting through the back pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports section, that somebody out there makes an over/under line on how many teams from the top conferences will be invited to the NCAA Tournament.
Well, we can play that game without any money involved.
ACC
Line: 5 1/2 teams. The pick: Under. The obvious choices are North Carolina, Wake Forest and Duke. Georgia Tech's win at Miami makes the Yellow Jackets an easier choice. Maryland's going to make it. Only one more would have to be included for it to go over, but no one else is in great shape. Only Virginia Tech has an advantageous schedule, but the Hokies have the weakest record.
Big East
Line: 7 teams. The pick: Push. Boston College, UConn, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Villanova are solid. West Virginia has some strong wins. Georgetown and Notre Dame are OK, but hurt their own cases with recent defeats. One of them figures to fall out of the picture.
Big Ten
Line: 4 1/2. The pick: Under. Man, if you can find five tournament-worthy teams in this league, you've got an imagination powerful enough to write the next Harry Potter sequel. Illinois. Michigan State. Wisconsin. And then what?
Big 12
Line: 5. The pick: Over. This is a risk, but that's why they call it gambling. Kansas, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and Texas Tech are in. Texas is in decent shape, but not great. Iowa State killed itself in the past week. Texas A&M has made a strong move but has a long way to go. Remember, two of its wins were non-Division I.
Conference USA
Line: 5. The pick: Under. Louisville, Cincinnati, DePaul and Charlotte are set. To get in from here, Memphis needs to win perhaps four in a row. And anyone else would have to win the conference tournament.
Pac-10
Line: 3. The pick: Over. Arizona and Washington were in about two months ago. UCLA got a huge win at Notre Dame on Sunday. Stanford hasn't played like a tournament-caliber team, but it looks like one. The committee won't want to leave out this program if it isn't forced to do so.
SEC
Line: 5. The pick: Over. The compliant bottom of this league allows the better teams to inflate their records to the point where either Vanderbilt or Arkansas might join Kentucky, Florida, Alabama, LSU and Mississippi State.
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.
Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 15 points and Evan Smotrycz added 13, helping No. 22 Michigan remain unbeaten at home with a 70-61 win over Illinois on Sunday.
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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.
