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.
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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.
APWhen Jim O’Brien was fired in May after only one season, Iverson joked no one could blame him. He was right. Iverson and Brown have long since reconciled and the vagabond coach named his former star a co-captain of the U.S. Olympic team.
Once nearly traded to Detroit, only Minnesota’s Kevin Garnett has been with one team longer than Iverson among active players. Iverson is signed through 2008-09 and, despite the occasional trade demand rumor, says he wants to end his career on South Broad Street.
“I gave a lot to this city, I’ve done a lot for this organization,” he said. “I fought my whole career here. I became a man here. From coming in at 20, 21 years old with my talents, everybody expected me to be some 30-year-old man like I am now when it wasn’t possible.”
Former Sixers guard Aaron McKie, now with the Lakers, said it was natural to see Iverson mature.
“I think he’s always going to be the same person,” McKie said. “As you get older and a little wiser, you’ve got younger guys coming up and you teach them just like older guys taught you. I don’t think you can live a full life if you don’t experience hardships.”
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“I could hear how grown up he’d become,” Cheeks said. “That’s what happens with most people. They’ve got to grow up at some point and I could hear the growth in his voice. It was refreshing and it was amazing.”
Now don’t go thinking this is a more polished Iverson, all dressed up and living a Stepford life, ready to be featured as someone that can be embraced by those in the red states.
After all, the Iverson billboards around Philadelphia proclaim “I am what I am.” And no matter how mainstream he’s become, Iverson seems to be drawn like a magnet to controversy. When NBA commissioner David Stern implemented a dress code that stipulates players must dress in “business casual” attire, it was aimed at players such as Iverson who wear baggy pants, jerseys and hats to and from games.
Iverson — who’s making nearly $16.5 million this year — complained that players should be given a stipend to buy new clothes that adhere to the dress code. After all, he says, he bought jerseys of the stars of yesteryear he can never showcase.
The do-rag is a do not. Throw back the throwback. Unplug that diamond stud.
Iverson doesn’t plan to fight the rule.
“I don’t have a problem with it,” Iverson said. “I’ll do it for the rest of the season.”
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
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