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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.
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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.
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.
APThe people in charge — the fans, the presidents — always let icons make the rules.
I remember asking the University of Tennessee president if Fulmer was under a mandate to keep his players out of jail. The president said Fulmer “was under his own mandate.”
Just great. Give him the checkbook and the keys to the school. We know who is in charge.
Cincinnati decided it did not want Huggins’ in charge of its identity. There is a thuggish hue over the program it wanted to eliminate.
Sure, the graduation rate at Cincinnati had improved and Huggins was ranting less on the sidelines. He was a very good coach and his program dominated a solid conference.
But the damage had been done to the school’s reputation. In fact, while Huggins was dangling in negotiations with the school over his contract, one of his players was arrested for bringing a concealed weapon on campus and one of his recruits was charged with statutory rape.
Yet, the majority of Cincinnati fans, we’re told by polls and radio call-in shows, love their coach. They can’t believe he has been forced out.
Unbelievable. Huggins’ reputation for graduating black athletes, according to reports, was miserable for most of his career at Cincinnati. He was thrown out of an NCAA tournament game. He was arrested for drunk driving. His program has been on probation and suffered sanctions.
The school has a terrible identity out there and the fans just yawn. Just win, baby.
The UC administration decided it wanted to do something about that image and identity before it put itself in front of major media markets of the Big East.
So school president Nancy Zimpher got into a power struggle with Huggins. When he was arrested for drunk driving in 2004, she had her chance and pulled the four-year rollover in his contract.
Her board backed her up and Zimpher told Huggins in May that the two years left on his contract were the last two on his contract. See ya.
Now he’s out, albeit at the end of a $3 million parachute.
His apologists will say Riverboat Bob is really no different than a lot of college basketball coaches. That’s true; I think a lot more of them should be fired along with Huggins.
But don’t worry about him. Huggins will get another job because there is another president out there like Georgia’s Michael Adams. Remember how he ignored all the red flags about Jim Harrick at UCLA and Rhode Island and hired him anyway?
Georgia’s basketball program ended up in ruins.
You can bet Huggins will be reborn, just as Bob Knight was reborn, just as Barry Bonds will be reborn.
The guy in the stands just cares about the ball, nothing else.
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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