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.
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.
APESPN conveniently held a Town Meeting so that Americans could somehow find a way to continue living if Bonds hit No. 756. Apparently global warming and bad schools are no longer serious problems.
Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly, apparently out of screenplays to plug, advised readers on how to deal with Bonds' record, as if it carried bubonic plague.
Deal with it however you like. But don't lump it with everything else that's happening in our Summer of Sin.
First, remember the core American value: presumption of innocence. Neither Bonds, Vick nor Donaghy have been convicted of anything. Some journalists, myself included, have skipped that principle at times. But the Duke lacrosse case should have cured that.
Speaking hypothetically, a referee who fixes games destroys the foundation of his sport and makes its side issues meaningless. Who cares where Kevin Garnett plays if you can't trust the charge-block calls?
A quarterback who organizes killer dogfights gives a sick new twist to the NFL culture of lawlessness, one that new Commissioner Roger Goodell is actually trying to reverse.
And a left fielder who takes steroids to catch Mark McGwire, the Ghost of Shady Canyon, who, lest we forget, was openly taking andro in the year he hit 70 home runs?
It's a stupid health decision and it's a loathsome message to the kids.
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And corked bats and spitballs might just enhance performance more than drugs actually produce home runs.
Meanwhile, Bonds turns his lonely eyes to 3,000. Look on the bright side. With each day in the big leagues, he delays the Hall of Fame induction.
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.
