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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.
PBT: Jeremy Lin wasn't his hot self on Saturday, but he still led the Knicks to victory.
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.
APYankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, in contrast, was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and is hitless in his last 13 at-bats after being named AL player of the month for May.
So is Buddy Bell a miracle worker? The question seemed to rankle the new manager.
“I’m not,” he said. “It (the sweep) is something the players should be proud of. They should feel good about themselves.”
Matt Stairs hit Pavano’s pitch into the left-field bullpen leading off the sixth. A moment later, Long hit one into the bullpen in right, making it 5-2 and bringing a roar from 25,590 fans who have had little to cheer about since a 104-loss season in 2004. Most of them were on their feet and many were waving brooms as the Yankees went down in the ninth.
Bell, who took over the team on Tuesday just hours before the first game of the series, became the only Royals manager besides Whitey Herzog to win his first three games.
Pavano (4-4) went 5 1-3 innings, allowing five runs and nine hits. After giving up only 16 home runs last season with Florida, he’s already served up 13 this year.
The Royals, who swept the Yankees in New York in 1994, tied it at 1 in the third on an RBI double by Angel Berroa, then took a 3-1 lead in the fourth on Teahen’s RBI single and a fielder’s choice grounder by Costa in his second major league at-bat.
The Yankees got a run in the first on Hideki Matsui’s sacrifice fly. Derek Jeter’s RBI single in the fifth made it 3-2.
“It hurts, there’s no question about that,” said Torre. But there are a lot of other guys who are hurting, too.
Notes: Jeter’s single in the third broke an 0-for-12 skid. ... Mike Sweeney’s line-drive single in the fourth missed Pavano’s face by inches. ... The Royals’ sweepless streak wasn’t even close to the major league record of 134 series set by the Athletics from 1918-22. ... The home run was No. 200 for Stairs, who joined Larry Walker as the only Canadian-born players with 200 homers.
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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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.