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.
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.
Getty ImagesBrendan Donnelly (6-2) retired the top three hitters in Texas’ lineup in the 10th, and Francisco Rodriguez worked the 11th.
Michael Young hit his 11th homer in the first, the only run allowed by Angels starter Jarrod Washburn.
The left-hander went seven innings to lower his ERA to 3.21 before leaving after 101 pitches — 71 of them strikes. He scattered seven hits with three strikeouts and no walks.
Texas’ John Wasdin allowed just five hits over eight innings in place of Kenny Rogers, his first eight-inning outing since June 30, 1996, for Oakland against the Angels.
Rogers has a broken bone in his non-pitching hand. The 40-year-old left-hander pitched with the small break last week in Los Angeles and gave up six runs, 10 hits and three walks in 3 1-3 innings.
Just as in their 13-3 victory Monday night and every game of the series last week, the Angels went ahead in the first.
Erstad had a one-out single before Guerrero’s double for his 29-game hitting streak against the Rangers — all since signing with the Angels as a free agent before last season.
It is the longest hitting streak by a player against one team since Ryan Klesko hit in 29 straight against the Houston Astros while playing for Atlanta and San Diego from 1999-02.
Notes: Anderson tied Joe Rudi’s team record for grand slams. ... Rogers was the AL ERA leader at 2.46 going into the night, but Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox lowered his to 2.42 after giving up just one run over 6 2-3 innings against Detroit. ... Washburn has nine no-decisions in 16 starts this season. He went seven scoreless innings to beat Texas last week, his only decision in six games. ... Nix had five putouts and an assist from center field in the first three innings. He started an inning-ending double play in the third when he caught Erstad’s deep fly and threw out Figgins, who never tagged up at first base. ... Wasdin has allowed just three runs over 21 innings in six appearances this season.
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.