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host: could switching to geico 15% or more on car insurance? host: does charlie daniels play a mean fiddle? ♪ fiddle music charlie:hat's how you do it son. vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> steve: we are at halftime in minneapolis. the biggest difference in this ballgame is rebounding by the timberwolves and second half points. they are shooting 35% from the field and yet they have the lead on the wizards 43-42 at the break. let's look around the n. unusual series of events for ron artest, he fell down his stairs after -- he had a concussion after fa >> steve: this is the first meeting between these two teams this year. washington looks for its third consecutive win. we had a terrific time last night at flip saunders home. he opened it up for the entire team, the broadcasters, trainers, equipment guys, it was fun. 11 rebounds for this minnesota team on the offensive glass that lead to eight second chance points. >> phil: washington was able to keep them at a lower shooting percentage around 35%. but they ar

to geico "sportsnite." alongside lisa hillary i'm jill sorenson. >> the hockey game you saw, the caps had reeled off five straight wins outscoring their opposition in the process 22-6. could they make it six wins in a row with alexander ovechkin backs in the lineup? let's take you to tampa bay. with a good history against the lightning he scored the six of his last 7 games against them. good passing here by the caps. seven shots stopped, looks like marine, off the inside post. have a closer look. the puck trickles on the goal line, no goal called. still scoreless in the second. he'll pass it off to the great 8 for the one-timer. that's ov's 19th of the season, it's 1-0 washington. later in the period, thomas fleishman with the puck high towards the net, eric fehr gets a handle on the pouncing puck. 2-0 caps. he has scored in two straight games. caps on the power play, semin steals the puck from former cap jeff ha burn, he will set up fleishman, his shot will be saved but, oh, he is in the right place at the

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anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> joe: let's get you inside air canada center. the washington taking on the caps. the caps lead by 2 after the 1st period. >> joe: and we are getting going with period 2. there the is air canada center. the home of the toronto mapleleafs. an early whistle and icing call, 12 seconds into the middle frame. alex ovechkin was on the board. the 2 minute mark of this contest for bruce boudreau. >> greg: his 3rd season as a capitals open. winning 67-plus percentage of his games. lost 3 regulation games. >> joe: and the capitals squaring off with the lead. next up, tuesday night at the pepsi center in denver. i am auction to see the colorado avalanche in the flesh. >> greg: yes. they have good young players. >> joe: and ovechkin just missed the mark there. wait until you see the young teenager, on top to have game. >> greg: i am looking forward to him. i think he has already nine goals. he can obviously put the puck in

anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> when you're in l.a. the stars come out to watch the big games in cuba gooding junior. help me help you. great star for the bruins. >> marques: no rebounds, no rings. >> steve: and the lakers owner and the clippers general manager. your comment? >> marques: just for one year. we'll get him back. just for one year. >> steve: do you believe that shot he made the other day? unbelievable. >> marques: one foot running. game tying, game-winner. >> steve: he wheels it in. michael roll will be at the free-throw line. he's the senior. >> marques: we need it going on out here. michael roll is a candidate for that. nikola dragovic also. talking about reeves nelson back on the floor, our outstanding stat guy, great stat. when nelson was out for the six-minute stretch, ten straight second chance points for the kansas jayhawks. that's where ucla really missed the inside presence of the freshman as we focused on at the start

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anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> larry: our subject for the next half hour is terror. tom fuentes was assistant director of the fbi he's office of international operations from 2004 through 2008. he's a contributor for cnn. back with us here in l.a. is harry humphries, counterterrorism expert and founder of the global studies group and former navy s.e.a.l. in new york harvey custom ner. finally in washington jack rice. now is a practicing toernl and journalist as well. janet napolitano was interviewed earlier on cnn's "state of the union." this was her bottom line. watch. >> one thing i'd like to point out is that the system worked. everybody played an important role here. the passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action. within literally an hour to 90 minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in a lot of what had occurred on the northwest airlines flight. we ins

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anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> jim: welcome back to larry king live. i'm jim moret christine brennan, we reported earlier today on inside edition that tiger woods may be leaving the country with his wife, elin, on their $22 million yacht. getting out of the country. getting out of dodge. trying to make the first steps to repair their marriage and then this announcement that tiger woods is leaving golf indefinitely. from your perspective, what does his departure mean and then as a woman, he has a lot more work to do at home than on golf course clearly? >> this is a punctuation mark, the exclamation point on the wildest sentence we have seen maybe ever in sports. this tiger woods saga, the greatest fall from grace, i believe, in the history of sports of an athlete. but this is extraordinary. these two weeks are stunning. for golf, this is a huge blow. the game is kind of reeling, anyway w the economy the sponsor. no sponsors yet on the tourna

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