Sports briefs: Ricky Williams retiring from NFL

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Ricky Williams is retiring from the NFL.

Must Have Red Wine of the Lunar Year

• (http://twitter.com/share) Our Wandering Palate gets into the Black Water Dragon’s Lair for Pegasus Bay Pinot Noir Prima Donna 2009 – Waipara Valley, South Island, New Zealand )and also goes for a vertical tasting)

New York Red Bulls Weekly Update

On Jan. 26, the Red Bulls announced that Major League Soccer and English Premiership side, Bolton Wanderers FC, agreed to a transfer fee for Red Bulls defender and United States National Team international Tim Ream. Ream has agreed to personal contract terms with Bolton, earned United Kingdom visa approval and passed a physical.

The 25 most anticipated games of 2012

Now that we’ve left the money on the nightstand and shown 2011 the door, it’s time to prepare for 2012. January has always just been the month that you prepare for the rest of the year, a toe that you gently slide into the pool to prepare yourself for the shock of cold water. January is the appetizer of 2012, and the perfect launchpad to look ahead at what is to come.

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The insurance subdivision of the House Commerce Committee appeared split Wednesday over whether to prohibit state employees from even considering setting up a state health exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act, even after a national expert from the Cato Institute urged them to do so.