|  SPECIAL SAUCE
You know their names. Brady. Moss. Welker. Nevermind them. How about Tate? Arrington? Chung? Tate (Brandon) returned a kickoff 103 yards for a touchdown. Arrington (Kyle) returned a blocked field goal 35 yards for a touchdown. Chung (Patrick) returned an interception 51 yards for a touchdown. (He also blocked two kicks.) It's the first time in the whole entire history of the NFL that a team has returned a kickoff, a blocked field goal, and an interception for a touchdown in the same game. And it meant that the Patriots blew out the Dolphins 41-14 despite only 153 yards passing from Brady, and despite Randy Moss not catching a single ball for the first time in four years.
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|  NO SPARE RIBS
Michael Vick's ribs are too painful for him to play this week. But they weren't too painful for him to talk last night on WXTG Radio about just how painful they are. "Usually I'm a fast healer, so we'll have to see," Vick said. "It won't be no more than two weeks, hopefully. Hopefully." One week means he won't play Sunday in San Francisco. Two weeks means he wouldn't play in Philly against his former team from Atlanta. (Three weeks means he wouldn't play in Tennessee. And after that, the Eagles have a bye.)
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|  KOBE AT 60 AND SLEEPING
After yesterday's preseason loss to the Timberwolves (?!), Kobe Bryant said his knee isn't even close to 100%. "I'm probably about 60 percent," he said before adding that he's feeling better than he felt while winning his most recent second-straight title. "During the NBA Finals, it was extremely, extremely, extremely painful. Now, not so much." Which is great, because nobody would want him to use a bad knee as an excuse if he should lose to LeBron in a game of one-on-one. Especially after he just said, "I could beat LeBron one-on-one in my sleep." How can this not be part of the All-Star Weekend? Winner gets home-court advantage in the Finals? Does David Stern subscribe to The Rundown? If not, can somebody forward this to him?
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|  SPEAKING OF WHICH - TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT
Pistons at Heat
--- LeBron/Wade/Bosh debut as teammates. Never heard of them.
Magic at Rockets (at Hidalgo, Texas)
--- Yao Ming is expected to be capped at 12 total minutes over two six-minute stretches. (That's exactly half of the 24 total minutes he'll be capped at each game in the regular season.) Expect both of those stretches to come in the first half.
Clippers at Blazers
--- 2009 No. 1 overall pick Blake Griffin figures to play after not playing at all last season after he broke his knee in, um, the preseason. (Note to Clippers: You sure about this?)
Wizards at Mavericks
--- 2010 No. 1 overall pick John Wall figures to play, despite picking up a cut over his eye in practice yesterday. (Gilbert Arenas is questionable after practicing yesterday with his sprained ankle taped up.)
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| 100 | Good Ol' Tom Brady recorded his 100th regular season win of his career in just his 131st regular season start. That makes him the fastest quarterback ever to the century mark, since Joe Montana needed 138 games with the 49ers. Meanwhile, all 100 of Brady's wins have come with Bill Belichick as his coach. In NFL history, only two other head coach + starting quarterback combos have won 100 regular season games together: Don Shula and Dan Marino (116) and Chuck Noll and Terry Bradshaw (107).
Joe Montana | Dan Marino | Terry Bradshaw |
| 49-29 | Justin Morneau has been ruled out for the entire 2010 postseason run of the Twins. In 81 games this season, Morneau hit .345 with 18 homers and 56 RBI. So you would think that losing a former MVP and a four-time All-Star would be quite a blow to Minnesota. You would be wrong. Because after he went down, the Twins actually scored more runs per game, and actually ended the season 49-29 - the best record in the AL over that span.
Morneau Out | Twins In |
| 09-1270 | The case is University of South Carolina v. University of Southern California, 09-1270. It concerns who really owns the initials "SC". And the Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal by the Gamecocks, who had their trademark claims rejected by lower courts. Which is all well and good, until they decide to come after the "SC" that belongs to SportsCenter.
Read More | Southern Cal as "SC" | SportsCenter as "SC" |
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| "If someone has a very, very high level of plasticizers in the urine, it would be hard for that athlete to explain how that happened if not for doping." Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is already under investigation after testing positive for a banned substance at the race. Now multiple reports say he also tested positive for a substance that -- while not banned -- is usually indicative of a blood transfusion. The World Anti-Doping Agency bans transfusions except in a medical emergency. The New York Times reports the test, for a substance found in plastic IV bags, occurred one day before his positive test for clenbuterol, which Contador has said entered his system through tainted meat. Contador's press agent told the Times that Contador "has done nothing illegal". Contador is facing a two-year ban and loss of his Tour title if convicted of a doping offense.
Read More | "In frustration, I whacked myself on the head with my bat in the ninth. I had my helmet on...[but] that night and the next morning, I just didn't feel good." So Brian Roberts didn't finish out the season after he gave himself a concussion when he hit himself in the head with his bat. Ladies and gentlemen, your 2010 Baltimore Orioles.
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