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Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians was taken to a hospital Sunday with an undisclosed illness and will not be with the team for its wild-card playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens. Clyde Christensen, the Colts' quarterback coach, will call plays. Arians served as interim coach for 12 games this season, going 9-3, when head coach Chuck Pagano was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for leukemia. Arians became dizzy Sunday morning, a source told ESPN. After running tests in the hospital, doctors think he may have a virus or inner ear infection. Arians says he feels he could have left to coach the game but doctors would not let him, the source said. Source: ESPN

im glade to see that the nhl is back. i like watching it once in a while

A tentative agreement has been reached between the NHL and the players' association. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr stood side by side in the early hours of Sunday morning to announce there was a framework in place for a new collective bargaining agreement. Although the deal still requires language clarification, legal fine-tuning and ratification from both sides, a verbal agreement has been reached on the major points. "We still have a lot of work to do," Bettman said, "but it's good to be at this poin The deal still requires majority approval from both the board of governors -- as early as Tuesday -- and the NHLPA membership before it can become official. The tentative agreement is a 10-year deal with a mutual opt-out clause after eight years and includes contract term limits at seven years (eight years for a team to re-sign its own players), a source confirmed to ESPNNewYork.com. "I am happy deal has been reached and excited to get back to playing hockey," Penguins star Sidney Crosby said in an email. Source: ESPN

probablly one of the best at that position. first ballot for sure

probabbly to just eat healthier

in my oppinion this was just another way to stay in the headlines. i dont know why he always likes being in the headlines but he does

cant wait for the Notre Dame game tommorow night. Dont think i can stay up for it tho. im just getting over a wicked cold

I wouldnt go as far to say he is a top 5 player. to be top five in my eyes you need to be as good as Lebron, Kobe, Paul, Durant, Griffin. and I see him trailing those guys a little bit. but he is very close to being a top 5 player

im really looking forward to this game. i hope RG3 shows up

i get it eveey year

goin to tbe knicks celtics pre season game tonight

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Colts coach Chuck Pagano has been diagnosed with leukemia and is expected to be hospitalized six to eight weeks as he undergoes treatment. Team owner Jim Irsay made the announcement Monday during a somber and sometimes emotional news conference at the team complex. "I am optimistic. I feel with every fiber of my body and I know Chuck feels the same way that he can beat this thing," Irsay said. Offensive coordinator Bruce Arians will serve as the interim coach in Pagano's absence. Irsay said that Pagano requested that Arians coach the team while he is undergoing treatment. Source: ESPN

North Carolina coach Roy Williams told the Tar Heel Sports Network that he went through a scary time last month as he prepared to have a tumor removed from his right kidney. But, the Hall of Fame coach said, he felt like "a blessed human being" after learning last week that the tumor was benign. Williams will have a biopsy on a tumor on his left kidney this week. "You hear all these stories where people say it just hits you between the eyes, and I've always heard that,'' Williams said Saturday during halftime of the Tar Heels' football game. "But there's no way to prepare for it, there's no way to say, 'Well, things are going to be all right,' because then your mind just starts racing, and you have so many thoughts going through your mind, (like) 'What am I going to do today, tomorrow? When am I going to do this?' Source: ESPN

If Mark Sanchez continues to struggle, his days as the New York Jets' quarterback will be numbered. For now, he has the support of Rex Ryan, who was bombarded with questions Monday as the inevitable Sanchez-Tim Tebow controversy erupted. "I think (Sanchez) is definitely our guy," Ryan said. "I don't want to get into the what-ifs, this, that or whatever. I just know in my heart, right now, that this is not the time (to change)." After six months of simmering, Sanchez-Tebow has reached a full boil, with Sanchez coming off three straight poor performances. Even Jets owner Woody Johnson, appearing on a Bloomberg TV political show, was asked about the quarterback situation. Source: ESPN

big division game for the Giants. I think they should win it pretty easily

Im looking forward to see how Lebron does comming off of a championship. Im looking forward to see how the Nets do in brooklyn. Really currious how the Lakers will do with all those big names they got. and i hope my knicks improve

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick on Monday said he did not mean to disrespect the official whose shirt he grabbed as the official was running off the field after the Patriots' 31-30 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, saying he was trying to find out whether the game-winning field goal was under review. Justin Tucker's 27-yard field goal as time expired sailed just over the right upright, and several Patriots -- including Vince Wilfork -- were pleading with officials that the ball was actually wide of the goalpost. "From the sideline I saw the ball go pretty close to the upright. I couldn't obviously tell from where I was at where exactly it went," Belichick said in a statement at the beginning of his Monday news conference. "But I saw players waving that it was no good, then I saw the officials giving the signal that it was good, and I just wasn't sure from where I was standing whether the ball, when it went over the crossbar, was above the upright or in between or not in between the upright. Source: ESPN

Steve Blake suffered a puncture wound to his left foot after stepping on a spike strip in a parking lot. Blake will be prohibited from participating in any impact exercises for approximately three weeks. Source: Real GM

Kyrie Irving participated in his first five-on-five scrimmage on Monday after breaking his right hand more than two months ago. Irving broke his hand when slapping a padded wall in Las Vegas on July 14th. Irving improved his left-handed dribbling skills since he couldn't do anything with his right hand for several weeks. "I couldn't tie my shoes," Irving said. "I couldn't put my belt on. There were a few things I couldn't do. I couldn't cook, open up juice. I had my best friend and my father with me all the time." Source: Real GM

The Seattle City Council has approved a plan to build a new arena in the city's SODO district. The vote was 6 to 2 in favor of the project led by Chris Hansen. The plan calls for $200 million in public investment, but construction will not begin until it passes an environmental review and Hansen purchases an NBA team. “Council staff, lawyers and councilmembers have worked hard to produce an agreement that protects the city, charts the right site review process and secures appropriate public benefits,” said Council President Sally J. Clark. “Today’s vote closes one phase of tasks and begins another, including work on how we plan for a bright future at Seattle Center.” Source: Real GM

yea that was pretty funny cobb. big win last night for the yankees. now they just need to keep on rolling with the wins

Major League Baseball appears unlikely to interfere if Melky Cabrera wins the NL batting title while serving his 50-game suspension for a positive drug test.The San Francisco Giants outfielder began Wednesday with a league-leading .346 average, seven points ahead of Pittsburgh's Andrew McCutchen.Cabrera has 501 plate appearances, one fewer than the required amount if the Giants play 162 games. Under section 10.22(a) of the Official Baseball Rules, he would win the batting title if an extra hitless at-bat is added to his average and it remains higher than that of any other qualifying player. Source: ESPN

Another night, another milestone for Derek Jeter.The New York Yankees shortstop led off the bottom of the first inning of Wednesday night's game against the Toronto Blue Jays with a single, giving him 200 hits for the season.This is Jeter's eighth career 200-hit season, tying him with Lou Gehrig for the most by a Yankee. The first-inning single also extended Jeter's hitting streak to 13 games."It's a lot of hits," Jeter said after the Yankees' 2-1 win. "I've always felt that if I was healthy and I go out there and play every day, it's something I'd have a chance to do."Jeter, 38, is the oldest player to collect at least 200 hits in a season since Paul Molitor did so at age 40 in 1996. Jeter is the sixth-oldest player to reach the 200-hit plateau. Source: ESPN

great sweep of the double header yesterday by the yanks