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The Vancouver Canucks learned a valuable lesson in a scary first-round survival against the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks. When you have a team way down, make sure you put them out as quickly as you can. Because if you let a club hang around, things can turn around in a hurry. The Presidents’ [...]
The Detroit Red Wings figured out a way to be on the winning side of a one-goal game against the San Jose Sharks. For Detroit, it was about time. Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left, lifting the Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over San Jose in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal [...]
Milan Lucic scored twice, Johnny Boychuk got the go-ahead goal, and the Boston Bruins stopped any chance of another historic comeback by the Philadelphia Flyers with a 5-1 win Friday night that completed a sweep of the Eastern Conference semifinal series. In this round last year against Philadelphia, the Bruins became just the third NHL [...]
The NFC South got a whole lot tougher on draft weekend, and it had nothing to do with Cam Newton. The NFC South was the best division in the NFL last year. The Falcons went 13-3. The Saints, who happened to be the defending champions, went 11-5. The Buccaneers went 10-6 and would have won [...]
It’s been a rough week for Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall. Just days after sending out controversial comments via Twitter about the death of Osama bin Laden and the events of 9/11, Mendenhall was dropped from his endorsement contract with Champion. USA Today first reported the news. Champion sent the following statement to ESPN.com [...]
Ask Shane Mosley how he can beat Manny Pacquiao, and the answer is match his speed and don’t be afraid to trade punches with a fighter who loves to trade punches. Ask trainer Naazim Richardson how his fighter can beat the best boxer in the world, and the answer is slightly different. “If he can [...]
Kurt Busch says his profanity-laced tirade last weekend at Richmond International Raceway led to a restructuring at Penske Racing that will produce better cars. “Instead of talking about it we’re reacting to it,” Busch said on Friday at Darlington Raceway. Busch did a lot of talking at Richmond, saying over his in-car radio, “We look [...]
The first time Bob Baffert saw filly Plum Pretty, he turned to owner John Fort and asked him if he got the name right. “Did you say her name was Plum Pretty or plum ugly?” Baffert said with a laugh. The way the trainer’s blossoming star ran in Friday’s $1 million Kentucky Oaks, perhaps Plum [...]
Major League Baseball and its players’ association are considering a formal plan for dealing with alcohol-related incidents in the next collective bargaining agreement. “This certainly has been something that we’ve been discussing in our ongoing collective bargaining talks,” league spokesman Pat Courtney said, according to the New York Daily News. Alcohol use has become a [...]
Kentucky freshman Brandon Knight announced Friday that he will keep his name in June’s NBA draft, forgoing his final three years of eligibility. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound guard said he made his decision after a combine for league scouts, where he was told he could be among the first 10 selections. “My main goal was to [...]
The Miami Heat say they aren’t paying any more attention to the newfound praise for the team’s success than they did to critics who ridiculed their early season failures. “We understand that, as we win games, people will try to crown us,” Heat forward LeBron James said. “That’s bizarre. We just have to go out [...]
Mario Williams became the Houston Texans’ cornerstone as the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2006, to say nothing of his defensive role. But as Houston’s Wade Phillips-led defense transitions to the 3-4 scheme, Williams has again become a building block. Williams will move from defensive end to outside linebacker with the scheme switch, the [...]
A.J. Foyt doesn’t mind being The Replacement as long as he gets to lead the Indianapolis 500. On Friday, the four-time race winner accepted an invitation to step in for Donald Trump as the celebrity pace-car driver, ending a controversy before the May 29 race. It was an obvious choice. “I never knew officially who [...]
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell expressed frustration Thursday in the lack of negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement. During a call with Kansas City Chiefs fans, Goodell reiterated the league’s desire to resume negotiations with the locked-out players. The venue is an important distinction and the commissioner and owners have repeatedly accused the players of [...]
Charlie Wittmack climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest on Friday, the latest achievement in an extreme test of human endurance that began in England 10 months ago. Wittmack, a 34-year-old Iowa attorney who became the first Iowan to summit Everest back in 2003, reached the highest point on Earth for a second time at [...]