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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.
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.
TAMPA, Fla. - New baseball players' union head Michael Weiner anticipates talks with Major League Baseball on a new collective bargaining agreement will begin by spring training or perhaps a bit earlier next year.
"Our goal will try to be, in one sense, you always want to have an agreement without a threat of a stoppage," Weiner said on Sunday. "But you also have to have an agreement that works for both sides. I'm sure that everybody will try our best to get a deal done on a kind of timeframe that we did last time. So we'll just have to see how it plays out."
The current agreement expires in December 2011. The deal was announced during the 2006 World Series, about two months before the previous agreement expired.
Weiner and other union officials met with New York Yankees players as part of a tour of spring training camps. The issue of blood testing for HGH was also discussed.
"Our attitude toward any kind of testing, blood or urine, is really the same, that we have to make sure the science is down and with the commissioner's office we will continue to investigate whether the science behind the blood test for HGH is 100 percent sound," Weiner said.
"The test has to be administered in a way that's safe for the players, and obviously drawing blood has complications that don't exist with respect to collecting urine. And the test has to be administered in a way where the players can actually go to work. Drawing blood is harder to do."
Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson, a former union representative with Detroit, agrees.
"We want to make sure it's accurate," Granderson said. "We definitely are not subjecting the players to something that could be inaccurate, plain and simple."
Expansion of the draft to include international players and the forthcoming recommendations from commissioner Bud Selig's on-field review committee will likely be part of next year's labor talks. Proposals about realignment may also come up.
"We'd be happy to talk about those (ideas) in bargaining," Weiner said
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