07:02 AM ET 05.23 | So far, so not good for Rex Ryan and Gang Green. Some defensive formations were not in the playbook, and there were plenty of false starts. But the most aggravating were the turnovers, a point of emphasis for the Jets each of the last two seasons. Mark Sanchez tossed three interceptions today. Geno Smith added another. "Today, obviously, I was not happy about how many times we turned the ball over -- four interceptions and a fumble, I believe," Ryan said. ... "You can do 90 percent really good things. But if you do 10 percent poor things you're going to get beat in this league. And those are the things we have to get better at, protecting the football over anything else. Today was a disappointment as far as that's concerned."

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07:14 AM ET 05.23 | Is timing everything? University of Oregon president Michael Gottfredson received a notice of allegations in the Ducks' ongoing NCAA investigation of its football recruiting practices on Dec. 5, 2012. The document was released [Wednesday] by the university in response to a public records request made by The Register-Guard. A letter from the NCAA to Gottfredson detailing the administrative process of the investigation is followed by seven specific allegations of wrong-doing by the Ducks under former head coach Chip Kelly. All seven closely resemble -- almost to the word -- allegations listed in Oregon's failed attempt at a summary disposition resolution as submitted to the NCAA in October of last year.

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07:10 AM ET 05.23 | Don Mattingly peeled a little paint before Wednesday's game, ripping into the team that has him on unsettled ground. Either Mattingly spoke with the blessing of general manager Ned Colletti, team president Stan Kasten and the club's new ownership, or his words amounted to an angry, desperate stand from a man who knows he soon might lose his job. One rival GM said it had to be the latter, finding it difficult to believe that upper management would endorse criticism of its own strategies. "He's trying to get himself fired," the GM said upon learning of Mattingly's comments. Mattingly rarely is as candid or expansive as he was during his pregame session with reporters Wednesday. His remarks offered a glimpse of his frustration.

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07:05 AM ET 05.23 | If Dwight Howard is going to wind up in Dallas, it will take some shuffling of the future. [The Mavericks], with their first lottery draft pick in a dozen years firmly in hand, have their eyes on a bigger prize. Multiple sources have told ESPN.com's Chad Ford the Mavs are likely to shop the pick in hopes of creating the cap space necessary to make a run at [Howard] in free agency. The 13th overall pick has a cap hold of $1,655,300. ... The hope is to sell Howard or Chris Paul -- who would each have to sacrifice a fifth year on the max contract that he could get from the Lakers and Clippers, respectively -- on the possibility of building a championship contender. "We'd love to get one of the main guys," Nowitzki said last week.

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07:21 AM ET 05.23 | Perhaps, after more than 1,100 games in the NHL, Daniel Alfredsson has earned the right to play the realist. [Alfredsson] says the Ottawa Senators probably won't come back against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Those words, after a 7-3 Game 4 loss on Wednesday put Alfredsson's team down 3-1 in the series, might be a strict motivational ploy. But if the Sens played their last home game of the season, and Alfredsson the last home came of his career, he didn't seem to take any chances. ... The quote Twitter seized on after the game came when he was asked if the Sens could come back from the deficit: "Probably not. They have too much depth," he said, according to Erin Nicks of NHL.com. ... "We don't have much going for us right now. Maybe that's the way we like it."

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09:27 AM ET 05.22 | UFC light-heavyweight contender Gegard Mousasi could be a force in the 205-pound division if he notches a few wins over a fellow title challengers, but he may have his eyes set at a championship run in another weight class in the top promotion in the world. It is something that Mousasi has been mulling for the past year and now he has finally voiced what many fans were hoping he would choose to do. Mousasi is one of the smaller 205-pound fighters in the weight class, so he is looking to potentially maximize his talent at middleweight.

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05:07 PM ET 05.20 | Jennifer Johnson was able to pick up her first LPGA victory yesterday. Other than bogeys on the first two holes in the first two days, she played very steady golf. Jennifer Johnson came out of nowhere on Sunday, and picked up her first win on the tour. She fired a seven-under par 65 in the final round, and picked up a much-needed $180,000 for her effort. She had a problem with the par-four fifth hole during the weekend, but back-to-back 65s will most generally win you a golf tournament.

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06:20 PM ET 04.24 | NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kurt Busch climbed into a ride of a different kind on Tuesday as part of a media event to promote the V8 Supercars Series race May 17-19 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. As part of the promotion, Busch made a 20-minute run around the road course in a V8 Supercar, while Supercar driver James Courtney took Busch's No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet NASCAR Sprint Cup car for a spin. "It was sure a thrill to get into a car that I have watched and admired for many years during all those Supercar road races," Busch said. "It was also a little weird driving the Supercar and watching my car stretch its legs down the straightaway." Before getting into the Supercar, though, Busch acclimated himself with the track by driving his familiar ride, his Sprint Cup car. "I had a blast driving my car on the road course and even more of a blast in the V8 Supercar," Busch said. "The Circuit of The Americas is an awesome track with a lot of interesting and fun turns." When it came time to climb into the V8 Supercar, Busch had a few things to get used to. Opening a door to get into the car, as opposed to climbing in the window, was the easy part. Busch had to get used to a car with the steering wheel on the right side and the shifter to his left.

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05:01 PM ET 05.20 | The rumors and speculation have been swirling all season that this could be Jose Mourinho's last at the Bernabeu. And now Real Madrid has formally announced that Jose Mourinho will not be back next season. "We've decided to bring our relationship to an end," said Real Madrid President Florentino Perez. "Nobody's been sacked, it's a mutual agreement." Real Madrid has fallen short of winning a trophy this year. They are 13 points behind Barcelona in La Liga, lost to their cross town rivals Atletico in the Copa Del Rey, and fell to Borussia Dortmund just short of the Champions League final.

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09:38 AM ET 05.22 | When the French Open begins on Sunday in Paris, the men's field will be without the No. 2 player in the world. England's Andy Murray withdrew from the field on Tuesday due to a back injury that forced him to pull out of the Italian Open in the middle of a match. The back condition is reportedly chronic for Murray, and he met with various doctors this week before coming to a decision to skip the second Grand Slam tournament of the year. Murray is the reigning U.S. Open champion after defeating Novak Djokovic in September to claim his first and only grand slam title, but the French Open remains the only tournament in which Murray has not reached the finals. In addition, clay is certainly regarded as his worst surface.

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