SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Jim Boeheim got his milestone victory. But the Georgetown men’s basketball team made Syracuse ’s longtime coach and his players work overtime to get it. Orange senior Kris Joseph sank a three-pointer with 29 seconds remaining in overtime, and Jason Clark committed a turnover with 4.9 seconds showing on the clock Wednesday at the Carrier Dome, where second-ranked Syracuse held on for an exhilarating 64-61 victory and the crowd of 27,820 serenaded Boeheim after he moved into sole possession of third place on the all-time Division I wins list. Read full article > >

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Georgetown vs. Syracuse: Hoyas fall in overtime, moving Jim Boeheim into third place in NCAA career wins

The Washington Wizards are off to their worst start in franchise history, and with each loss Coach Flip Saunders and his players find it harder to explain or excuse the struggles. They are the third-youngest team in the NBA, with an average age of 25.02, and eight players on the roster have less than three years of experience. But while youth and inexperience have contributed to Wizards’ 0-8 record, several scouts and league executives believe the problems run much deeper than the usual bumps that come from rebuilding. The Wizards, they argue, suffer from a lack of overall talent and a toxic culture of losing that has prohibited the growth of its developing players. Read full article > >

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Wizards’ woes stem from from lack of talent and losing culture, executives say

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Shortly after finishing the 2010 season at 4-8, Virginia football Coach Mike London told Jon Oliver, the school’s executive associate athletic director, that he felt his players needed to be tougher, more accountable and more disciplined. “In my mind, listening to [London], I felt like it was coming down to a lot of what was happening in the weight room,” Oliver said. Read full article > >

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Virginia football learns the price of strength

Chelsea reject a proposal from their players to wear T-shirts in support of captain John Terry.

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Terry T-shirt support ruled out

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish defends his players after they were criticised for their public backing of Luis Suarez.

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I will miss Bruce Boudreau, and not just in the plethora of commercials he starred in while coaching the Washington Capitals . Boudreau had a dry wit and did not suffer fools, at least among the media contingent at Kettler and Verizon Center. He was never dull, and for a columnist, that’s great. But coaches don’t have to please columnists; they have to please general managers, and owners, and fans. Increasingly, Boudreau was failing to do that. And he certainly wasn’t pleasing his players, at least some of them. It’s no great secret in sports that coaches are hired to be fired. It’s no great secret that when a coach clashes with a player making $9 million a year, a player who used to be regarded as the best in hockey — and a player who probably still regards himself as the best in hockey — that coach is the one who’s going to be hitting the bricks, not the player. Read full article > >

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BALTIMORE — John Harbaugh aggressively pumped his fist when Joe Flacco converted a big third-down throw. He jumped on the back of linebacker Jameel McClain as he ran off the field after a key sack in the fourth quarter, and he gave several of his players hugs after receiving the first of two celebratory Gatorade baths. Read full article > >

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Baltimore Ravens top San Francisco 49ers in the Harbaugh bowl

BALTIMORE — John Harbaugh aggressively pumped his fist when Joe Flacco converted a big third-down throw. He jumped on the back of linebacker Jameel McClain as he ran off the field after a key sack in the fourth quarter, and he gave several of his players hugs after receiving the first of two celebratory Gatorade baths. Read full article > >

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Baltimore Ravens top San Francisco 49ers in the Harbaugh bowl

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association announced a new collective bargaining agreement, ensuring labor peace between the sides through 2016 and guaranteeing 21 consecutive years without a work stoppage since the 1994 strike, the longest uninterrupted stretch since the formation of the modern Players Association in 1966. Read full article > >

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MLB, players announce new collective bargaining agreement, extend labor peace

The NBA ’s more than four-month long labor dispute effectively moved from debates in plush hotels to arguments in a courthouse when the players’ union disbanded in an effort to file an antitrust lawsuit against the NBA. And on Tuesday, players hit the league with separate antitrust complaints in Minnesota and the Northern District of California in an effort to prove that the lockout is illegal. Read full article > >

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NBA players file two antitrust suits against league; David Stern calls decision ‘a sham’

No one knows precisely how the N.B.A. will change under a proposed matrix of new regulations, which are now under review by the players union.

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What N.B.A. Could Be Like Under a New Labor Deal

Derek Fisher stated at a news conference that the players would accept the league’s proposed 50-50 split of revenues if the league to relaxed its proposed restrictions on free agency.

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N.B.A. Players Signal a Shift That Could End the Lockout

Former ICC anti-corruption chief Lord Condon believes countries who fail to control their players should be banned from cricket.

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The NBA is giving the players’ association until Wednesday to accept a deal over a new collective bargaining agreement after the two sides met for eight hours over the weekend.

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Alabama Coach Nick Saban’s birthday was Monday, and as a gift, his players signed a jersey with the No. 60 — his age — and his last name on the back. But when the players presented the jersey to their coach, it didn’t register with Saban that they were pointing out his age. He was upset because he thought they’d pegged him as an offensive lineman. Read full article > >

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