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How Close You Were, Dusty
Ah, such a rite of fall: The ritualistic execution of baseball managers. It always is a fun day, the day right after the baseball season ends, because managers just get picked off left and right. It's only a matter of time until Florida, bewilderingly, cans Joe Girardi, but we're gonna look at Cubs ...

Where My Team Stands: New York Mets
If we've learned anything about Octobers the last few years, it's that the month tests, stretches and hones every aspect of loyalty fandom. Typically, we pretty much just tell our friends that we'll see them sometime in November. It's a stressful time....

A Deeply Regrettable Wrong
Before we get started in on an extremely busy sports day, we have some business to attend to....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while ... hey! Where the hell are my Lorna Doons? ... • MLB: Cubs end season with 8-5 win over Rockies. Let the housecleaning begin. • NFL: Chicago Bears remain as only unbeaten team after ... oh no! Todd is having another heart attack! • NASCAR: Tony Stewart crosses finish line mome...

About Last Night...
• College Football: Georgia 14, Ole Miss 9. Georgia pulls off the rare accomplishment of winning a game without actually playing a quarterback. • MLB: Astros 4, Braves 3. Andy Pettite tossed a gem to keep the Astros playoff hopes alive. And then his day took a turn for the worse... • MLB: Brewers 2,...

About Last Night...
• College Football: Rutgers 22, South Florida 20. It's going to be tragic when Rutgers goes undefeated and gets shut out of the BCS Championship game. • MLB: Padres 1, Diamondbacks 3. With one win, or one less from the Phillies, the Padres get in the playoffs. Neither of those things happened last n...

Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Chicago Bulls
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. Let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team. Today we continue with the Central Division, so do us a favor and send us your tips at [email protected]....

No Pedro In October? That Just Seems Wrong
As we deal with our own baseball-related panic — which we'll obviously be getting into later — we turn to Queens, where Mets fans, enjoying their best season in nearly 20 years, have lost their ace for the entire playoffs. Whether Pedro Martinez comes up with a tiny former Brando co-star or not, w...

And It's Like Nothing Ever Happened ... Presto!
So, now that the 9-1-1 call from publicist extraordinare Kim Etheredge has been made public and now that the police have ruled the incident an "accidental overdose," well, everything's back to normal now, right?...

The Closer: You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me, Lucille
Notes from a day in baseball:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while awaiting the YouTube of last night's Daily Show with Carl Monday ... • College football: Auburn, Kenny Irons flatten the Gamecocks. • MLB: Mets bench Pedro through Christmas. • Golf: Tiger leads AmEx, but is it still a winning streak? Somebody help us out here ......

Clinton Portis Hangs Up The Wacky Glasses
There's a reason that you must wait five years until after your career is over to be elected to most professional sports Halls of Fame; it looks strange to have a Hall of Famer out there running around like everybody else. It seems beneath them, somehow....

Still Wading In The T.O. Morass
You know, it's strange how, after the frenzy of Terrell Owens-related madness yesterday, it all seems to have died down today. It never fails to bewilder us that once an athlete denies something, mainstream reporters just kind of say, "OK, well, must not be true, then!" and move on. There seems to b...

Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Cleveland Cavaliers
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. Let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team. Today we begin with the Central Division, so do us a favor and send us your tips at [email protected]....

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
We mentioned this briefly the other day, but we figure it probably deserves its own post....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while gently, delicately rocking ... • MLB: Pedro Martinez gets final tuneup before playoffs and ... uh oh, ... Braves beat Mets 13-1. • Tennis: Venus is back! Let us rejoice. • Soccer: Didier Drogba, hat trick, Chelsea over Levski Sofia 3-1 ... ring a bell?...

The Human Being Vs. The Publicist
A legitimate question as we tie a big ribbon on this whole Terrell Owens suicide business for the day, which, we have to say, ESPN has done a rather outstanding — if predictably overdone — job of covering today:...

