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• NHL This Week: Rangers and Isles Meet in Brooklyn

  

  PhotoThe Islanders and Mikhail Grabovski, left, taking on Colorado's Andreas Martinsen, have won three of their last four games.CreditBruce Bennett/Getty ImagesEvery Tuesday, The New York Times will look at the week ahead in the N.H.L., highlighting hot — or not so hot — teams and players.Games to WatchMinnesota Wild at Chicago Blackhawks, Tuesday, 8 p.m., NBCSNBlackhawks forward Patrick Kane has scored a point in 19 straight games, compiling 11 goals and 20 assists in that span. He will go for ..

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• Do You Know Who Burglarized These Homes in Buffalo Grove?

  Buffalo Grove policeare investigatingthree home burglaries that occurred last month at homes located close to Illinois Route 22, between Buffalo Grove Road and Stevenson High School, the Buffalo Grove Countryside reports. Police believe the burglaries are related and in each case, the burglar, or burglars, pried open a door.The burglaries occurred on Nov. 4, at a house in the 2800 block of Daulton Drive; on Nov. 5, at a house in the 2100 block of Apple Hill Lane ; and on Nov. 6, in the 2200 bloc..

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• The Best Teams? Look at the Big Games

  

  PhotoSure, they lost Sunday night, but Tom Brady and the Patriots are No. 1 in the Authentic Games Index.CreditJustin Edmonds/Getty ImagesIn this world of data-driven precision, we’ve come to expect everything to the fifth decimal place. Tuesday Morning Quarterback says there’s still room for totally unscientific back-of-a-cocktail-napkin thinking. Enter my Authentic Games Index.What’s an Authentic Game? You know it when you see it. Usually this means a date against another team that’s playoff-b..

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• Gronk Tweets 'Agree' On Idea That NFL Is Targeting Him For Pass...

  

  By Matt Dolloff (@mattdolloff)BOSTON (CBS) — The NFL would be a better place if the players got to speak their minds more often. People get all mad when guys like Richard Sherman say outrageous stuff, but that should be what we want. It’s way better than the endless assembly line of clichés.That’s why it’s awesome to see Rob Gronkowski say in one word what everyone in Patriots Nation already noticed: the NFL is singling Gronk out for offensive pass interference penalties more than anyone else by..

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• Michael Riedel's 'Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway'

  

  Could it be that there were saints walking among us in 20th-century Manhattan? And could it be that those saints were a couple of Jewish lawyers? Who lunched at Sardi’s?It seems that way in Michael Riedel’s “Razzle Dazzle,” a rollicking, authoritative and valuable history of Broadway that serves primarily to beatify Bernard Jacobs and Gerald Schoenfeld, the attorneys who wrested control of the mighty Shubert Organization, Broadway’s biggest landlord, from their clients in the summer of 1972. The..

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• Full Sparks: Leafs rookie posts shutout in NHL debut

  

  For the Minnesota Wild, today was a day for damage control.Try to act surprised, OK?“We’re obviously on the same page,” defensemanRyan Sutertold the Star Tribune. “It’s a story that shouldn’t even be a story. I think the heat of the practice yesterday, I was just saying stuff I probably shouldn’t have said.”In case you missed it, whatSuter saidwas that he shouldn’t be playing with a left-shot defenseman likeJonas Brodin.“I don’t know what [the coaches are] thinking,” said Suter.But in addition t..

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• Jury Convicted NY Ex-Speaker Despite No 'Smoking Gun'

  

  ALBANY, N.Y. — There was no star witness, no damning testimony, no briefcase stuffed with cash that sealed the fate of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who for 20 years was one of the state's most powerful politicians.Instead, legal experts say, a jury convicted the Manhattan Democrat of corruption Monday based a slow drip of circumstantial evidence that painted the Manhattan Democrat as a political insider who profited from his public service.Silver's appeal is likely to focu..

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• The Biggest Names on Preet Bharara's Trophy Wall

  

  Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver'sconvictionon Monday was a huge blow against Albany's culture of corruption, but it was also a major personal victory for Preet Bharara, the crusading U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. From the beginning of his tenure in 2009, Bharara has vowed to make cleaning up New York politics a top priority, and after taking on two of the most powerful men in Albany — Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — earlier this year, he has t..

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• Rex Ryan: Bills have to get better challenge system in place

  

  Getty ImagesOn Sunday, Bills coach Rex Ryan responded to questions about not challenging aJeremy Maclincatch that looked like an incompletion on replays with an answer that included complaints aboutthe lack of replayson the video board at Arrowhead Stadium.Those replays would have helped Ryan on the sideline, but there’s little reason why coaches up in the booth wouldn’t have been able to notice that it didn’t appear to be a catch. It was a rough day all around on the challenge front.The Bills w..

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• Recap & Analysis: Riveters Loss To Beauts

  

  The New York Riveters faced off against the Buffalo Beauts for the first time this season and Buffalo skated away with their first win.TheNew York RivetersandBuffalo Beautswent into last Sunday's game at Aviator Sports & Events Center in the midst of two opposing streaks. The Riveters were looking to continue their winning ways by securing their third victory in a row, while the Beauts were hoping to find a way to win for the first time in their history following a heartbreaking shootout def..

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