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03/18/2009 - Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Blackhawks have activated center Samuel Pahlsson from the injured reserve list.
Pahlsson, acquired from Anaheim at the trade deadline, will likely make his debut for the Blackhawks on Wednesday against Columbus. He had been sidelined since February 1 with mononucleosis.
The 31-year-old native of Sweden has five goals and 10 assists in 52 games this season. He was the leading faceoff man for the Ducks, winning 54 percent of his draws.
Pahlsson, set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, has 52 goals and 91 assists for 143 points in 544 NHL games with Boston and Anaheim. He was a member of the Ducks' Stanley Cup championship squad in the spring of 2007.
The Blackhawks also assigned left wing Pascal Pelletier to the club's AHL affiliate in Rockford. He failed to score in seven games with Chicago, but leads Rockford with 27 goals this season.
<< Vancouver awarded MLS expansion franchise
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Major League Soccer announced on Wednesday
that Vancouver, British Columbia, will be the home of the league's 17th team.
The team will begin play in 2011 at the newly-renovated BC Place Stadium in
the cit
<< Cavs' Szczerbiak out at least two weeks with MCL sprain
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cleveland Cavaliers guard/forward Wally
Szczerbiak is expected to miss the next two-to-three weeks after suffering a
knee injury in Tuesday night's victory over Orlando.
Szczerbiak underwent an MRI
<< Browns' Stallworth releases statement
Berea, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth
released a statement through the team on Wednesday in which he expressed his
grief and prayers for an accident that killed a pedestrian last Saturday
morning
<< Roberto Carlos would consider Real return
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brazilian veteran Roberto Carlos would be
interested in returning to Real Madrid, if Florentino Perez became president
of the Spanish giants again this summer.
The 35-year-old defender, who left the
Skiles, CV31 and Twitter-gate >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - I'm usually safely behind the curve in the
technological revolution.
I text, and am fairly well versed in the world of computers, but I still
struggle with my DVR and can't figure out how to sync up Rhapso
Arizona's Warner has surgery >>
Tempe, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner got a new two-
year deal with the Cardinals this offseason. Now he has a seemingly healthy
left hip as well.
Warner underwent surgery on Tuesday to repair a labrum tear i
Steelers re-sign CB Bryant >>
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Pittsburgh Steelers announced on
Wednesday they have re-signed cornerback Fernando Bryant to a one-year
contract. Terms of the new deal were not disclosed.
Bryant joined the Steelers as
Prado seeks second straight Lane's End Stakes >>
Florence, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado will go after
his second consecutive victory on Saturday in the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes
at Turfway Park. Prado will be aboard West Side Bernie who will face 11 rivals
in the
NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking.
No. 1 always seems to fit USC.
Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent.
Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory.
Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3.
"We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team."
Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time.
"Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team."
The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points.
"I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won."
Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State.
"There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?"
USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll.
"It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter."
While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls.
As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule.
But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference.
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The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road.
The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second.
The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia.
No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday.
Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee.
Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina.
Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson.
The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996.
South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20.
The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24.
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