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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.
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.
LONDON - Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1 to move two points ahead at the top of the Premier League on Sunday, while Chelsea lost ground with a 1-1 tie at Blackburn.
Fernando Torres put Liverpool in front with a header at Old Trafford, and Wayne Rooney evened the score in the 12th minute. Pepe Reina saved Rooney's penalty kick, but Rooney later put home a rebound for his 33rd goal of the season. Park Ji-sung headed a second-half winner from Darren Fletcher's cross.
Didier Drogba put Chelsea ahead after six minutes at Blackburn, but a header by El-Hadji Diouf gave the hosts a point. Chelsea is four points behind United and two behind Arsenal but with a game in hand on both. Arsenal beat West Ham 2-0 on Saturday.
Man United has 69 points and second-place Arsenal 67, each from 31 games. Chelsea has 65 from 30 and has the chance to cut United's lead to one point Wednesday when it plays its game in hand at Portsmouth on Wednesday.
"It's a difficult moment now," said Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti, whose team was knocked out of the Champions League by Inter Milan on Tuesday. "We are in third position and we are behind now. We have to run more but we don't have to lose our confidence."
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FRANKFURT (AP) — Schalke squandered a chance to knock Bayern Munich off the top of the Bundesliga. settling for a 2-2 draw at Hamburger SV.
Bayern lost 2-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday and Schalke could have moved a point ahead at the top with a win.
Ruud van Nistelrooy scored for Hamburg late in the first half but Schalke turned the game around with a goal from Kevin Kuranyi and a penalty kick by Ivan Rakitic during a five-minute stretch in the second half.
Substitute Jonathan Pitroipa salvaged a point for Hamburg with a tying goal in the 77th minute.
Bayern leads the standings with 56 points and Schalke has 55.
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Luis Suarez scored twice and created another as Ajax routed RKC Waalwijk 5-1 to cut first-place FC Twente's lead in the Dutch league to four points.
Suarez first crossed to Siem de Jong, whose header put Ajax in front after nine minutes. De Jong set up the Ajax captain for the second goal in the 47th after Waalwijk had tied it through Marko Pantelic's own goal.
Frank van Mosselveld also had an own-goal in the 65th before further goals by Suarez and Dennis Rommedahl completed the rout.
With six rounds to go, FC Twente leads the standings with 71 points after holding rival PSV Eindhoven to a 1-1 draw Saturday. Ajax moved to second with 67 points, one more than PSV.
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GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Kenny Miller scored on a header in the 84th minute, leading nine-man Rangers past St. Mirren 1-0 for a victory in the Scottish League Cup.
After Kevin Thomson and Danny Wilson had been sent off in the second half, Rangers were left two men short for the last 20 minutes at Hampden Park.
But Miller headed home a cross by Steven Naismith Rangers' 26th triumph in Scottish soccer's third-tier competition.
Also in the last eight of the Scottish Cup and well ahead in the league, Rangers are now on course to win three titles.
On Saturday, Rangers' lead in the league championship was cut to 10 points by Celtic, which beat St. Johnstone 3-0.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — U.S. striker Eddie Johnson scored for Aris in a 1-1 draw with Panionios in the Greek league.
He scored in the 11th minute and Panionios tied in the 80th on a goal by Davor Kukec.
Aris is in fifth place with 43 points, five behind fourth-place AEK Athens.
First-place Panathinaikos has 61 points, four more than Olympiakos, with three rounds left.
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.
Alex Morgan's 2 goals, including the winner in stoppage time, lift the U.S. past New Zealand 2-1.
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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.