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WASHINGTON, Jan. According to the Associated Press, the NFL is giving every player attending the NFL scouting combine a mandatory baseline brain activity exam. Upscale resorts withworld-class spas, championship golf and exclusive dining blendeffortlessly with a captivating collection of bed and breakfast inns andhistoric districts. San Jose's entire top forward line will be representing the best team in the world (Team Canada) come February in the Olympics.Its second-line center, Joe Pavelski, will be also be in theOlympics, representing Team USA.Add in role players like Manny Malhotra, Jed Ortmeyer, Torrey Mitchell, Jamie McGinn, Frazer McLaren, and Brad Staubitz, and the Sharks truly have Stanley Cup-caliber forward lines.However, despite the fact the Sharks are sending their top two defensemen to represent their countries in the Olympics (Dan Boyle, Canada; Douglas Murray, Sweden), the bottom four defensemen have not been playing up to a Stanley Cup level.Rob Blake, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Kent Huskins, and Jason Demers have had their ups and downs this season, but, unfortunately for Sharks fans, they have had more than their fair share of downs.Taking that into consideration, one of these four will most likely be packaged in a trade to bring in a better defenseman.Now, while I have constantly been questioning the play of Blake, since he's in his first year as Sharks captain, I don't see him being traded.Huskins and Demers simply wouldn't bring much value back in return for trading either one of them.But then there is the curious case of Marc-Edouard Vlasic. It is the only thing thatseparates the Hawks from Cleveland and Boston in the East.In the NBA, staying focused for 82 games can be difficult. The candidate should be someone who could be counted on to run a clean program while providing it the stability it so badly needed coming out of probation.Ultimately Mike Shula and Sly Croom, both former players at Alabama, were interviewed, with Shula being named Head Coach.

Clair's last game as a Brown.Then you turn the focus to Harrison and Cribbs and how to best compliment them. Here's a kickoff to a new weekly feature, the Pac-10 Power Rankings. Division ? 6 GamesDetroit (Home and Road): Detroit is still fully in rebuilding mode. The Griz looked at the 7 foot 3 center from UConn and images of blocked shots and twenty rebound nights danced in their heads.

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