08:06 AM ET 05.23 | Perhaps a quarterback not named Matt Moore will have an opportunity to run the Dolphins offense. [Miami's first day] of organized training activities provided the first chance to watch the quarterback competition between Matt Moore, David Garrard and Ryan Tannehill. Soon after practice, Dolphins coach Joe Philbin was asked about comments recently made by owner Steve Ross, who speculated Moore would likely be the starter Sept. 9. ... "Look, last time I checked, he is on board. I told him and we have been very upfront with him, we want a competitive situation at that position as well as the other positions," Philbin said. "These guys work hard; they deserve the opportunity to compete for a job on this team, a starting position on this team."

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08:17 AM ET 05.23 | The matter or what was referred to as a complication remains so for Mariano Rivera. [Rivera] still hasn't been able to set a date for surgery to repair the torn ACL in his right knee he suffered in Kansas City earlier this month, because the blood clot doctors discovered following the injury hasn't dissipated. "We're trying to work out the clot," said Rivera, who remains on medication to get rid of the clot and is rehabbing the knee in the meantime. "I have to strengthen the knee. I'm doing a lot of therapy." The hope is the rehab will help offset the delay of the surgery. Because the Yankees don't expect Rivera back before next season, manager Joe Girardi is confident Rivera's return won't be affected by the clot.

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08:11 AM ET 05.23 | Larry Bird certainly didn't like what he saw Tuesday night. [Bird] doesn't do a lot of interviews. He prefers to stay in the background and let his players get the attention. But when Bird talks, you listen. That was the case about two hours after the Pacers suffered the worst playoff loss in franchise history -- 115-83 -- in Game 5 against the Miami Heat. "I can't believe my team went soft," Bird said on the phone. "S-O-F-T. I'm disappointed. I never thought it would happen." When asked to elaborate on those comments, an obviously frustrated Bird said, "That's all I have to say." Those are the strongest words I've ever heard Bird say about his team -- good or bad -- in my seven-plus years of covering the Pacers.

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08:27 AM ET 05.23 | Dave Tippett, probably wisely, chose not to elaborate on his thoughts of the officiating after Phoenix bowed, but that doesn't mean the Coyotes were happy. One hit that was a hot topic after the game was Dustin Brown's hit on Michal Rozsival in overtime. "Rozsival was cutting to the middle, and I cut across and made contact," Brown said. "Obviously, they thought it was a kneeing. It happened at high speed. I felt like I got him with my shoulder and my left side and his right side all made contact from toe to shoulder." Coyotes players thought the hit came after the whistle. "If Raffi Torres gets 25 games for his hit during the play, then this guy (Brown) ought to be done forever," Smith said.

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08:24 AM ET 05.23 | This is a final four season, of sorts, for former Virginia Tech signee Montrezl Harrell. [Harrell] has a leader in the fight to land his services, and that leader is Louisville. The four-star prospect's father told Mike Hughes of InsideTheVille.com Friday night that Rick Pitino and company are Harrell's front-runner, and that his son will visit U of L before any other school. The Hargrave Military Academy star is also considering Kentucky, NC State, Florida and Alabama. I suppose this clears up any debate over whether or not there is mutual interest between the parties. The scholarship issue, however, remains a mystery.

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10:14 AM ET 05.20 | UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones had long ago developed into a dominant fighter, but only recently had he taken that next step and become a massive box-office star. That's why his arrest early Saturday in Binghamton, N.Y., on a charge of driving under the influence has to be so troubling to the UFC brass. The UFC is in dire need of new stars and Jones has given every indication he's ready to ascend to the top in that realm. Though UFC officials do not release pay-per-view figures, media estimates were that Jones' last bout, at UFC 145 in Atlanta on April 21, sold in excess of 700,000 units. The event attracted a crowd of 15,545, which paid a live gate of $2.3 million. Those are the kind of numbers which stamp a fighter as a legitimate box-office star.

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10:44 AM ET 05.13 | After three rounds of The Players, Kevin Na has the fewest strokes, by one, and the most waggles, by about 500. A gun-hating liberal probably has an easier time pulling the trigger. Na shot 68 Saturday at TPC Sawgrass. But people seemed to spend more time counting his long waggles, short waggles and whiff-like swings when stepping out of address than his number of strokes. Na and playing competitor Zach Johnson were put on the clock on the 10th tee and taken off on the 17th tee. In between, Na got a bad time when hitting his second shot on No. 16. Two bad times in a round call for a one-stroke penalty, though the PGA Tour hands those out like manhole covers. The last player to be docked strokes for dallying was Dillard Pruitt at the 1992 Byron Nelson. To his credit, Na knows he has a problem. He says it stems from his inability to get comfortable over the ball since he changed swing coaches in the spring of 2011. "Because my balance at the setup is totally different, I don't feel comfortable," he said. "I'm trying to get comfortable with my waggles." He wants his routine to go like this: little waggle, half waggle, little waggle, half waggle, go. But when it goes longer, he said, "there's a lot going on in my head."

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09:13 AM ET 05.20 | Nearly every major American sport has black stars, including Tiger Woods, LeBron James and Serena Williams, but the top three Nascar national series have none. It is a glaring absence in a sport desperate to attract new fans and diversify its audience. Darrell Wallace Jr., 18, who is scheduled to make his debut in the lower-level Nationwide Series on Sunday at Iowa Speedway, just might be the one to finally break through. "We really feel that Darrell is a guy that has a gift behind the wheel," said J. D. Gibbs, the president of Joe Gibbs Racing, one of the top teams in Nascar. Gibbs has been searching for Nascar's first black star for nearly a decade, beginning with a collaboration with Reggie White before he died in 2004, and signed Wallace in 2009, when he was 15. "I think it's a real value to this sport if you can kind of have that piece fit in," Gibbs said. "Other sports, it kind of happens naturally. This sport's hard because of the barriers to entry because of the cost standpoint." Darrell Wallace Sr., who owns an industrial cleaning business, has spent nearly $1 million to support his son???s racing. Now Gibbs has taken over. The plan is to have Wallace race in four Nationwide events this year, with the possibility of a full schedule in 2013. Nascar officials will be among those watching closely on Sunday.

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10:08 AM ET 05.19 | While Juan Agudelo has stated that he feels new club Chivas USA values him, the Red Bulls insist they valued their 19-year-old phenom, enough that they'd spent years rejecting legitimate offers for him and would've turned down this one as well if Agudelo himself hadn't desperately wanted to leave. "Juan has (been) asking for a move for quite awhile. It makes no sense to keep an unhappy player. But it's been going on for awhile," coach Hans Backe said at today's practice, the first since Agudelo was officially dealt yesterday for Heath Pearce, allocation money, salary cap relief and a cut of any future transfer fee. "I've been speaking personally to Juan a number of times over the past months about his future, his wishes, our wishes. How we can work together, not work together," said GM Erik Soler. "As I said, some people think it's wrong to let him go; I think it's a perfectly right thing to do. I need to think about his career, his wishes but also the club."

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