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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.
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.
Eleven shots separated Phil and Tiger Sunday at Pebble Beach as Lefty secured his 40th Tour win. Jason Sobel had 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.
Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
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.
You can argue that you didn’t know the supplement was loaded, or that your personal trainer gave you something and told you it was safe, so you took it. But you can’t argue that you didn’t take anything, not now or ever, and therefore the positive test is inexplicable.
Palmeiro was just another of a large number of players whose power numbers surged in the mid-1990s. He went from a pretty good hitter with occasional power to a very good hitter with major power.
Like everybody else, he said it all came through hard work and clean living. And we might have been able to live with that — baseball, after all, had no prohibition against steroids — had he not swore to tell the truth to Congress and pulled that act with the waving finger and the solemn declaration that he had never used steroids. When he tested positive after that performance, he has some ‘splainin’ to do.
Instead of explaining, he dissembled. He didn’t know how it could have happened. He really was clean. He felt terrible about it. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
That was bad enough. The discovery that he tried to blame Tejada is the last straw.
They say you don’t know a person’s true character until he faces adversity. Well, Palmeiro has faced adversity, and he’s come up lacking in every way possible. Once known as a nice guy, he’s proved to be a rat and a slimeball, a guy who would try to smear an innocent teammate to save his own worthless butt.
Get out of the game now, Raffy, and stay out. And good luck finding something to do with the rest of your life.
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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