|  YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME
You don't play to just play it. That's the great thing about sports. You play to win. Unless you're Vincent Jackson and Logan Mankins. In that case, you play to get paid, which is why you won't play for about another month. Wait, what? It's true. Chris Mortensen reports that they'll each report to the Chargers and Patriots respectively (upon a recommendation from the Players' Association) with just enough time left to play just enough games to win unrestricted free agency after this season. Mankins will report by November 16th. The roster-exempt Jackson will report by October 31st, because he still has to sit out three unpaid games before he is eligible to play the necessary six paid games to earn his sixth accrued season.
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|  FAVRE DOWN IN PAIN?
Brett Favre has started 289 straight regular season NFL games. Or, if you prefer, he hasn't not started a regular season NFL game for 18 straight years. Needless to say, that's an NFL record. And needless to say, a little bit of elbow tendinitis isn't going to stop that at this point, right? Wrong. "I don't want to play just to play," he said. "It's kind of a funny injury. It could flare up and get worse." Which means he could sit out a game or two. But at least we're only talking about his elbow, and not his groin. That seems to be just fine after getting, um, tweaked in practice yesterday.
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|  FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
Someone (let's call him Deacon) once said (yesterday), "Deciding which Speedo to bring to Vegas is easier than you think. All of them." So who knows what the Lakers decided to pack for their trip there for their first game stateside as two-time defending champs? According to J.A. Adande, Kobe Bryant didn't pack the sleeve he's been wearing on his right knee, and didn't show any more bounce or lift than he did on their European vacation. He also didn't show much else, playing 18 minutes in a win against the Kings, scoring just 7 points on 2-for-10 shooting from the floor. Which means that for the preseason, he's now averaging 7.3 points per game on 4-for-28 shooting. Don't hurt yourself - that's 14.3 percent from the floor.
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|  STAR TREK: THE VOYAGE HOME
The NHL tried to provide drama yesterday. There were six games on the schedule and all six were decided by a single goal. Four of the six games had the game-winning goal scored with less than four minutes left in the third period or later. Two of them were decided in overtime. But still, that's nothing like the drama that will unfold tonight in Dallas when Detroit comes to towns (8:30 ET). Because that's when Mike Modano will skate against the Stars for the first time in his 21 year career. It's a career that saw him log more time with the Stars longer than Dallas has, since he debuted for the club when we called them the North Stars and they called Minnesota home. (Call it 1989.) He's the franchise leader in goals (557), assists (802), and points (1,359). Yet they let him go this summer.
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| 5 | NASCAR welcomed 5 more members into their Hall of Fame yesterday. That's on top of the 5 members that were already in there before yesterday. The newest 5 enshrined were David Pearson (winner of 105 races), Bobby Allison, Lee Petty, Ned Jarrett, and Bud Moore. Two notables not enshrined were three-time NSCS champions Darrell Waltrip and Cale Yarborough. So maybe one of them could get to Washington and help drive the cars on the set of Transformers 3.
Read More | Newton: All Politics | Bumblebee Wrecked on the Set |
| 1,000,000,000 | That's what a billion looks like, all spelled out in numerals. (Now imagine what it looks like in stacks of nickels.) Take a good look, NFL, because according to the Wall Street Journal, it could all be gone if there's a lockout once the collective bargaining agreement expires in March. Because even if the 2011 season ends up getting played in full, the league might not get paid in full.
Read More | Now imagine what it looks like in stacks of pennies. |
| VIII | His name is registered as Big Bad Bruce, but you can call him Uga VIII. He's the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Georgia's original Uga the English bulldog, and will officially become beloved between the hedges in a ceremony before Saturday's homecoming game against Vandy. (Uga VII lasted less than two seasons before his heart failed him in November of last year. So he was replaced by his half-brother, Russ.)
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| "I got an 11 o'clock reservation I had to make. I didn't want to stay any longer than I had to, you know what I'm saying? It's my birthday." Paul Pierce didn't want to come out of the game against the Knicks. He wanted to stay in just so he could hit a tiebreaking jumper with eight seconds left to avoid overtime and make it to his 33rd birthday party. Well-played.
Recap | Highlights | "It's different when they're our guys. They know I didn't mean to do it. But it's still not a good feeling." A.J. Burnett is slated to start Game 4 for the Yankees, and tuned up for it with a simulated game yesterday. All he did was sail his first pitch to the backstop and plunk two of his teammates. He called it "a good day."
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| Which World Series matchup do you most want to see? - Rangers - Giants
- Rangers - Phillies
- Yankees - Giants
- Yankees - Phillies
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