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.
APDespite Tigers designated hitter Dmitri Young’s pregame insistence that the struggling Tigers would not back down if there was any fallout from Tuesday’s game, there was no trouble, even after Rondell White was hit by a pitch by Wang in the seventh. Tempers flared in the Yankees’ 12-3 win Tuesday after Yankees reliever Paul Quantrill hit Jason Smith with a pitch in retaliation for Rodriguez being hit.
Wang retired his first nine batters before giving up a leadoff single to Brandon Inge in the fourth inning. After Ivan Rodriguez hit an RBI single to make it 1-all, h got Young to ground into a double play. In the sixth, Wang got Rodriguez to ground into an inning ending double play with runners on first and third.
“He was great,” Yankees manager Joe Torre said. “He got into a little trouble, then got Pudge to hit into a double play. He doesn’t lose his cool.”
Wang (3-1) was removed from his fifth major league start with runners on first and third and one out in the seventh to a warm ovation from the crowd of 51,833. Looking down, he shyly tipped his capped as he left, having allowed two runs and five hits.
Mike Stanton relieved and gave up an RBI single to pinch-hitter Ramon Martinez that pulled Detroit to 4-2, but Tanyon Sturtze, with help from Jeter’s catch, quashed the rally.
Mariano Rivera pitched the ninth for his 10th save. He is 10-for-10 since blowing his first two chances of the season — both against the Red Sox, who start at three-game series at Yankee Stadium on Friday.
New York took the early lead on Gary Sheffield’s RBI single in the first, scoring Jeter.
The Yankees loaded the bases in the third inning on Tino Martinez’s leadoff single, Jeter’s double and, after an out, an intentional walk to Sheffield but Maroth (4-4) got Hideki Matsui to ground to first baseman Carlos Pena, who threw home for the force. He then struck out Rodriguez looking to end the inning.
New York chased Maroth in the sixth, putting the first four runners on. Sheffield walked, and Matsui had an infield hit before Rodriguez hit his double. Posada ended Maroth’s night with a two-run single to make it 4-1.
“I think I could have done a better job of mixing up my pitches,” said Maroth, who gave up four runs and eight hits in five-plus innings.
Notes: The Yankees clinched winning their sixth straight series. ... The gametime temperature was 51 degrees. ... Martinez snapped an 0-for-12 slide with a single in the third. He batted ninth for the first time in his career. ... Maroth picked Posada off first in the fourth.
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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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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.