TAMPA, Fla. — When the Yankees began talks with the agent for the former Seattle Mariners closer David Aardsma over the winter, Mariano Rivera had not made any public declarations about his future. The negotiations to acquire Aardsma were independent of that.

But Aardsma and the Yankees ultimately reached an

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Rams Coach Shaka Smart threw out the first pitch at a Chicago Cubs game, attended the White House correspondents’ dinner and joined five of his players at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles.

All summer, forward Bradford Burgess smiled for pictures and signed autographs after attending services at Spring Creek

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After Rick Nash, the player most often mentioned as a tempting possibility as Monday’s N.H.L. trade deadline draws near is the Los Angeles backup goalie Jonathan Bernier.

In the wall-to-wall trade talk on the Canadian networks TSN and Sportsnet and anywhere else where trades are discussed, it is practically impossible

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For decades, networks have looked for ways to upgrade the quality of sports broadcasts. Most improvements have been visual, with better cameras, high-definition and snappier graphics.

And while the audio at games and Nascar races is crisper than ever, it can still make leaps in quality.

“We’ve pretty much pushed

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Gary Carter didn’t want to be called Coach. He never liked the word and, besides, Coach Carter would have sounded like an awkward play off a Hollywood film.

As for Kid, his career-long nickname, that didn’t quite fit for a roster of fresh-faced collegians.

“Call me Skip,” Carter told them

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Terrapins Coach Randy Edsall said that O’Brien could not transfer to another Atlantic Coast Conference school, to a university that is scheduled to face Maryland, or to Vanderbilt, which is coached by the former Maryland offensive coordinator, James Franklin.

Edsall’s decision came under fire, however, and on Wednesday he reversed

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