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Ryan Getzlaf had a goal and an assist to help the Anaheim Ducks move in front and they held off Calgary 3-2 on Sunday night to end the Flames' six-game winning streak.

Mack Brown knows it's coming. At some point during warmups before No. 1 Texas plays No. 11 Missouri on Saturday night, Longhorns freshman safety Blake Gideon will seek out the coach who has won a national championship and say: "I hope you're not nervous." Gideon does it every week and it's a pretty funny line coming from a guy who has played six games.

Cito Gaston will return as manager of the Toronto Blue Jays next year. "Cito's definitely going to be back," general manager J.P.

Ricciardi said Thursday. "He's done a good job. We're six games over .500 since he took over. We've got a long way to go offensively, but he's really laid the groundwork for some of the right stuff offensively.

Washington Nationals closer Chad Cordero is out for the season with a torn labrum in his right shoulder. Cordero will have surgery on the shoulder, which has been bothering him all season.

The date for the procedure has not been set. Cordero has pitched in only six games, allowing one run in 4 1-3 innings.

The mirage of this NBA Finals is that Los Angeles was a heavy favorite to beat Boston in five or six games.

The Lakers went 12-3 through the Western bracket on the legs of the league's best player and the mind of their winningest coach, but the one advantage they haven't been able to seize -- the disappearance that's killing them now -- has been the absence of Bynum.

At 7-feet and 285 pounds, he would be the biggest player in this series.

Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh sent the NFL eight videotapes that show New England violated league rules by recording opposing coaches' playcalling signals.

The tapes include signals by coaches of five opponents in six games from 2000-02, but don't include video from the St.

Louis Rams' walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl.

Freshman O.J. Mayo scored 25 points, Taj Gibson added 20 points and 11 rebounds, and smaller Southern California dominated the backboards en route to a 77-64 victory over No. 7 Stanford on Saturday.

Dwight Lewis had 14 points and freshman Davon Jefferson added 11 -- six on his second and third 3-pointers of the season -- as the Trojans (20-10, 11-7 Pac-10) won for the fifth time in six games as they...