|  HOW THE WEST WAS (ALMOST) WON AND WHERE IT GOT US
After the Giants finished off the Diamondbacks in three straight games, the Cubs nearly finished off the Padres in the NL West, sending San Diego to their third loss in four games. Ironic, since it came on an evening when the Padres wore their 1984 throwbacks. Unless you consider that back then, those Padres dropped the first two games of the (best-of-five) NLCS to the Cubs, only to run off three straight wins against the Cubs to teach 10-year-old kids throughout Chicagoland exactly what it means to be a Cubs fan clinch their first pennant. Now, these Padres also need to run off three straight wins against the Giants just to force a one-game playoff with the Giants for the NL West title. So, four straight wins then. (Where have you gone, Steve Garvey?) Game one is tonight in San Francisco (10:15 ET).
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|  RYDERS ON THE STORM
The Twenty Ten Ryder Cup began Friday morning at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales. And it began in the driving rain, and then it was stopped by the driving rain. And if the driving rain ever gives way to driving the fairway, then pay attention to how Friday morning gives way to Friday afternoon. Because in each of the last four Ryder Cups, the team that led after the Friday morning session went on to win. At Valhalla in 2008, the USA!USA!USA! got out to a 3-1 lead in the Friday morning foursomes. In fact, the last time a team trailed after Friday morning and came back to win was in 1999, when the USA!USA!USA! did at Brookline. (But come to think of it, the USA!USA!USA! hasn't won a Friday morning four-ball session since 1979 at The Greenbrier.)
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|  "I'M A MAN. I'M 40."
Oklahoma State beat Texas A&M with a field goal as time expired. So the Cowboys stay unbeaten and the Aggies became one-beaten. But it would have been the other way around had the Aggies been able to answer any of the 28 unanswered points the Cowboys put up in the second half. Still, coach Mike Gundy got his 40th career win, and left the Big 12 with just five unbeaten schools. The Big Ten has six. One of them is Ohio State, who will fight Illinois in Champaign for the Illibuck on Saturday. Since 1925, the Illibuck has been, of course, a turtle, because they're expected to live long lives, and they expected the rivalry to live long as well. The turtle died in 1927. It's now wooden. Coincidentally, Ohio State leads the rivalry 58-23-2.
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|  TIKI TORCH
Tiki Barber has weighed in on the 1-2 New York Football Giants, and thinks coach Tom Coughlin is in a crisis because of the perception that he's losing the team. "He is in a crisis because of the perception that he is losing his team," Barber said "We all know that especially in New York, once the media and the perception becomes a reality, you start fighting against it. And when you are fighting against something that is not necessarily real, you make it real. That is why he is in a crisis." The Giants host the Bears on Sunday night. Also Sunday night, they will induct Tiki into their ring of honor. Well-timed.
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| 18 | The NFL owners might want to expand the schedule to 18 games, but that doesn't mean the players necessarily want to. Specifically, 13-year veteran Hines Ward. "I'll probably be the last double-digit guy," he said. "The 10-year guys you won't see any more, except for your quarterbacks. The running backs, you're really going to see a short lifetime span. The season's just too long [already]." Just a reminder that the NFL played 12-game schedules in the 1950s.
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| 13, .520 | With the news that Felix Hernandez is shut down for the season, he'll finish with just 13 wins (and 12 losses). If he goes on to win the Cy Young Award, those 13 wins would be the fewest for any Cy Young Award winner (hedge - as a starting pitcher, in a non-strike season) and his .520 winning percentage would be, by far, the lowest all-time.
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| 54, 1? | Jose Bautista recorded his 11th career multi-home run game when he went deep twice last night. His season home run total now sits at 54. He's only the 16th player ever to have 54 homers in a season. And only after last night does he now have his first home run to right field. In his career. Wait, what?
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| "Yeah, check sat at my house for a couple weeks before I cashed it. I was weighing my options about what I should do. ... Do you want to take this?" Albert Haynesworth talked to our own Sara Walsh about his hesitation to cash his bonus check. His $21 million bonus check.
Read | Watch the Interview | "I think I could put my shoes on in his shoes." Nate Robinson and his size-10 feet wore Shaq's size-23 shoes to run a suicide at Celtics practice. It's just one more reason to use Twitter as your window into these 2010 Celtics.
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| Which notable QB prospect would you want your team to select in the NFL Draft? - Jake Locker (Washington)
- Andrew Luck (Stanford)
- Ryan Mallett (Arkansas)
- Terrelle Pryor (Ohio State)
- Nathan Scheelhaase (Illinois)
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