This Season, Rangers Lose Element of Surprise
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The Rangers kept much of its identity intact through the off-season, losing only a handful of contributing players and adding a few who have extensive playoff experience.
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The Rangersâ injury problems have made their playoff run precarious.
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Lose the choreography and dial back the frivolity. Thatâs my advice for the Mets as they resume the season. The Yankees, on the other hand, could use a bit of strut.
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This season, Cubs fans have learned that there is no such thing as a comfortable lead in Major League Baseball.
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The feel-good story of the baseball season turns into a different kind of feel-good storyâand leaves us fans feeling bad.
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For all the triumphs of last season, the Rangers find themselves in 11th place in the Eastern Conference entering Saturdayâs game against the St. Louis Blues.
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In the third off-season after the lockout, the Rangers were big players in a free-agency signing period that turned into a bit of an unexpected frenzy across the N.H.L.
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The Oakland Athletics are doing their best to eliminate one of their pursuers in the AL West. Texas entered the weekend needing a series sweep to get back in the race. Instead, the Rangers are on the verge of being swept and falling 10 games behind division-leading Oakland with a month left in the season.
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They are suffering inexplicable breakdowns, and unaccountable disasters. This used to be the Boston Red Sox in October. Now it is the teams they are playing.
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For the first time in two and a half seasons, the cheery success story of the New York Mets has lost some of its luster.
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At 6:41 of the second period, after New York forward Petr Prucha had scored his second goal to give the Rangers a 3-1 lead, Tim Thomas glanced at the high-definition scoreboard to see how the puck eluded his grasp.
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The Rangers rely on Henrik Lundqvist to lock things down on defense. They just never counted on Nigel Dawes to supply all the offense.
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Defenseman Paul Mara, newly acquired from the Boston Bruins, did not arrive in time to aid in the New York Rangersâ victory over the Montreal Canadiens.
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Playing bitter division rivals on back-to-back nights, the Rangers may have given their up-and-down season a major jolt Friday night with a 3-1 victory over the Devils at Prudential Center.
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The Nets and the Phoenix Suns are part of a trend that seems to have pervaded this young season: Teams with high expectations that have stumbled out of the gate.
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This yearâs World Series was so full of odd, unscripted sights and moments that it sometimes seemed as if the laws of baseball probability had been temporarily suspended.
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Just as the Yankees predicted, the sun did come up after Tuesday night&#39;s historic 22-0 loss to the Indians. But the players awoke to a much different world, one in which the Yankees suddenly