The Maryland men’s basketball team has lost starting point guard Pe’Shon Howard for the rest of the season after the sophomore tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during practice Thursday. Read full article > >

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Maryland vs. Duke: Terps to face Blue Devils without injured point guard Pe’Shon Howard

The state of Alaska and the genre of reality docu-TV have almost animalistic mating urges. They just can’t stay away from one another, which is how we at home came to know too much about crab fishing, gold prospecting, grizzlies, snow machines, ice-road truckers, chartered plane pilots and the taste of the season’s first whale blubber. Add to that a certain out-of-work politician and the humdrum patrols of the state’s troopers, and it’s been a whole lot of defrosted drama. Yet very little of it has made for memorable watching. Read full article > >

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‘Bering Sea Gold’: Restoring reality TV’s lost glimmer

Has singing-show fatigue clipped the wings of Fox’s golden goose? About 22 million people watched the Season One-One (as Randy Jackson kept calling it) debut of “American Idol” on Wednesday night — about 17 percent, or about 5 million viewers, shy of last January’s season kickoff. Read full article > >

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As 11th season opens, ‘Idol’ proves it’s still got chops despite viewership drop

The eighth-ranked Maryland women’s basketball team played one of its more erratic games this season, committing one turnover after another in addition to missing foul shots and layups, but survived a scare from Virginia , 68-61 , on Monday night before 3,897 at Comcast Center. Read full article > >

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Maryland vs. Virginia women’s basketball: Terps hang on for 68-61 win over Cavs

Paul Scholes comes out of retirement and will play for Manchester United until the end of the season.

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Scholes comes out of retirement

Northampton inflict a first away defeat of the season on Premiership leaders Harlequins.

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Northampton 24-3 Harlequins

BOSTON — The Washington Wizards arrived at TD Garden without a win. And within two minutes of their game against the Boston Celtics, they were without their head coach. But the sight of Coach Flip Saunders stomping on the parquet floor, screaming at referee Eli Roe after Celtics center Greg Stiemsma fell on Rashard Lewis and didn’t get called for a foul, sent a charge through a team that has lacked intensity for the early part of this season. Read full article > >

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Wizards vs. Celtics: Flip Saunders ejected as Washington stays winless

PHILADELPHIA – In a performance befitting their dismal, error- and injury-plagued campaign, the Washington Redskins stumbled their way through a 34-10 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in their final game of the season Sunday. The Redskins have been plagued by mental gaffes, turnovers, injuries to key players and flat-out poor play all season long. Read full article > >

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Redskins vs. Eagles: A season of woes packed into one game as Washington loses to Philadelphia, 34-10

Fly-halves Owen Farrell and Freddie Burns land five penalties apiece to record the first Premiership draw of the season for both sides.

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Saracens 15-15 Gloucester

The NFL ’s regular season wraps up Sunday with three playoff spots, postseason positioning and portions of the record book at stake. The New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys play a winner-take-all game in the Meadowlands for the NFC East title. Tim Tebow tries to add a triumphant chapter to one of the sport’s leading story lines of the season with his bid to get the Denver Broncos into the postseason. Fellow quarterbacks Drew Brees of New Orleans, Tom Brady of New England and perhaps Aaron Rodgers of Green Bay get their final shots to rewrite history in what might be the sport’s most passing-friendly season. Read full article > >

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NFL playoff picture: NFC East, postseason spot for Tim Tebow, records up for grabs in Week 17

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes Tottenham Hotspur can win this season’s Premier League but refuses to accept that Chelsea and Arsenal are out of contention.

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The Giants are 5-3 this season on the road but just 3-4 at home, where they will face the Cowboys in prime-time with a playoff berth at stake.

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For Giants, Home Field Has Been a Disadvantage

Champions Saracens win in front of a record 82,000 crowd at Twickenham to inflict a first Premiership defeat of the season on leaders Harlequins.

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Harlequins 11-19 Saracens

“ The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ” is one of this season’s buzziest movies, as hotly anticipated by its partisans as any installment of “Harry Potter” or “Twilight.” Like Harry and “Twilight’s” Bella Swan, the title character of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling novels has grown into a literary cult figure of freakish devotion. Read full article > >

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David Fincher’s ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ is satisfying and underwhelming

The bookend plays of the Washington Redskins’ most recent loss to the New England Patriots also could bracket their season. In the first quarter, quarterback Rex Grossman dropped back to pass in his own end zone, was drilled by New England defensive end Andre Carter, dropped the football and yielded a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, trailing by just seven points, Grossman looked for veteran wide receiver Santana Moss inside the Patriots 5-yard line. The ball hit Moss in the hands, popped out the other side, and was intercepted. Read full article > >

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Redskins have longest active turnover streak in NFL