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It was a banner day for Rutgers football as three top recruits chose to join the Scarlet Knights. I had a chance to speak with head coach Greg Schiano to get his impressions on the recruiting class.

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A new Haier Shooting Stars champion will be crowned as teams representing Atlanta, Los Angeles, Sacramento and the state of Texas take the floor on Feb. 13, as part of NBA All-Star Saturday Night at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

For the first time in the event's history, TNT and NBA TV analysts will participate in the event, each serving as the NBA Legend on one of the four respective teams.

Team Sacramento is represented by the Kings' Tyreke Evans, who has won four consecutive Western Conference T-Mobile Rookie of the Month awards, and who headlines the 2010 T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam Rookie Team; TNT and NBA TV analyst Chris Webber, a five-time All-Star, who averaged 20.7 points, 9.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists over a 15-year career; and Nicole Powell, currently with the New York Liberty, who was a first-time WNBA All-Star in 2009 with the Sacramento Monarchs.

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Three wins, seven losses, and one shootout loss in the last 11 games for the Devils. Their season has taken a direct turn south with 27 games left to play, and just six more to be contested in a span of nine days before the Olympic break. They're sending out an S.O.S. to the injured Patrik Elias, David Clarkson, and Paul Martin (remember him?), who can't return soon enough.

The problems right now are all correctable, and it's hard not to agree with Jacques Lemaire when he says he'd be content with his team just keeping its head above .500 for the remaining games prior to the Olympic break that commences February 14.

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Match up against Stan Fischler in our ranking game!

The Maven gave his Best Five NHL Captains, and now it's your turn. Rank the Best Five NHL Captains from good to best, and compare your ranking to Stan's, send the results to a friend, comment below, or start over.

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• The World's Most Famous Arena will have serious sizzle for many reasons this Saturday at 12 noon when St. John's hosts West Virginia. First, because the Red Storm desperately needs a marquee win, and second, because it's the New York debut of Mountaineer big man Deniz Kilicli.

• If Corey Stokes continues to make big shots for Villanova the way he did in the second half of the Wildcats' win over Seton Hall on Tuesday night, Jay Wright will have a team capable of winning the National Championship.
  
  I see Stokes playing the same role for Wright as Rashad Anderson played for Jim Calhoun when UConn cut down the nets in 2004.

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Knicks legend and NBA Hall-of-Famer Dick McGuire passed away at the age of 84 on Wednesday.

Prior to the Knicks' big win over the Wizards, Donnie Walsh, Mike D'Antoni and others shared their fond memories of No. 15.

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Rutgers picked up its second consecutive Big East win this season with an impressive 84-72 victory over St. John's. I had a chance to talk with Scarlet Knights head coach Fred Hill to get his thoughts on the game and his team's improvement throughout the season.

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New York Knickerbockers legend and Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dick McGuire, who helped shape the franchise's destiny for more than half a century, passed away today on Long Island at the age of 84. He died at Huntington Hospital of natural causes.

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Jim Boeheim, you've got some company.

Ok, maybe it's not that serious, but upstate New York is no longer just a one team show in terms of quality college basketball.

In a year where Boeheim and Syracuse have a legitimate chance to win their second national championship in school history, two mid-major programs, Siena and Cornell, are making their own cases to be heard among college basketball's elite.

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Where is the National Hockey League Police when a steal has taken place?

(Kidding, of course!)

But if the Rangers' acquisition of Olli Jokinen and Brandon Prust from Calgary is not – at least by stickhandling standards – a heist of the best (for Rangers) kind, then I don't know what is.

And I'm not Jokinen either!

In plain Brooklynese, the Blueshirts got something for nothing. Actually, you can make that plural; SOMETHINGS for zippo. Zero. Zilch.

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