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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Getty Images“Yeah! Let’s go!” he screamed after one especially dominating move in the paint.
“I’ve been told the least important score is the halftime score, so I wasn’t worried that we were down,” May said. “I didn’t play well in the first half, but Coach told me, ’We’re not going to stop coming to you.’ They had faith in me.”
Michigan State made only 10 of 34 shots in the second half, finishing at just under 34 percent. Maurice Ager typified the Spartans’ offensive woes, leading the way with 24 points but finishing just 6 of 18 from the field.
The final is a matchup between two sentimental coaching favorites. The mother of Illinois’ Bruce Weber died last month during the Big Ten tournament. Then there’s Williams, who never quite could take Kansas all the way.
Williams, who’s willing to put his emotions on display for all to see, went through a gut-wrenching decision to leave the Jayhawks when the Carolina called him home two years ago.
Williams is a Tar Heel through and through — a North Carolina native, he went to school in Chapel Hill, sent his two children to school there and learned the coaching ropes as an assistant to Dean Smith.
When Carolina first called, Williams couldn’t bring himself to leave Kansas. But he finally made the move that always seemed his destiny when the Tar Heels came back to him in 2003, eager for the right man — the only man — to rebuild a program that fell into disarray under Matt Doherty.
Now, just three years removed from a 20-loss debacle and with Smith watching from the stands, North Carolina put itself just one victory away from its first national championship since 1993.
Williams’ last trip to the title game was his last hurrah at Kansas. The Jayhawks lost 81-78 to Syracuse, a potentially tying 3-pointer blocked in the waning seconds.
Michigan State was no tournament neophyte, reaching its fourth Final Four in seven years under Izzo. The Spartans won it all in 2000.
But not this year.
“We just didn’t have enough weapons,” Izzo said. “It’s going to be a great championship game with two No. 1 seeds. It’s probably the way it’s supposed to be.”
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.
Herb Pope scored 19 points, including four free throws in final 10 seconds, and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead Seton Hall to a 73-66 victory over Pittsburgh 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.