The Yankees are trying to exercise their playoff demon that is the Angels, like LA did by beating the Red Sox in the LDS. Alex Rodriguez‘ bat is awake and he’s working towards shaking the “Playoff Choke” label. CC did what they brought him to NY to do in Game 1, and Jeter’s still the man. The Yankees have different guys stepping up at different times to carry them to pie-in-the-face team victories.

One of the biggest contributions to the New York success is coming from the Angels in the form of errors. Los Angeles committed three errors in Game 1 and two more in Game 2 including the debacle that allowed the winning run to score. There’s not gonna be any divine intervention so the Halos need to break out their DVD players and garbage cans.

Angels Need Some to Watch Some of Those Tom Emanski Videos [Larry Brown Sports]

The Village People didn’t have this in mind. Thank you Waikato Times via Stuff.co.nz

Vince Carter says he must dominate Pavlovic.. Sends T-Mac get well text. Thank you The News Herald

IGF-1, the new HGH. Thank you Blog Critics

Jaws understands McNabb’s predicament. Thank you Philadelpia Daily News

Just what mom needs: a football book for women. Thank you PR Web

Group wants to keep the “ping” in high school baseball. Thank you ESPN.com

HBO Chairman Chris Albrecht charged with domestic assault and battery. Thank you The New York Times

30% of MLB and 50% of the Yankees are foreign born. Thank you Seattle Post Intelligencer

Shaun Alexander doesn’t care to know if his foot is broken. Thank you Philadelphia Inquirer via the AP

Texas basketball fans are 66.6% bummed. Thank you The New York Sun

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Koren Robinson has a new anklet. Thank you Seattle Times

Dwayne Jarrett is gonna have the Cabana Club crackin’ tonight. (3rd paragraph down) Thank you Eurweb.com

Who’s the favorite to win NEXT year’s college hoop championship? Check the odds here. Thank you to sportsbook.com via Gambling 911

Joe Frazier to box his daughter… In court. Thank you Delaware Online

Michael Jordan’s son checking out Valpo. Thank you NWI Times

10 things to root for instead of Barry Bonds. Thank you Tufts Daily

Joe Torre and A-Rod feel Barry Zito’s pain. Thank you San Mateo County Times via InsideBayArea.com

USC’s Nick Young says no Mayo on mine. Thank you LA Times

Time is running out… If you haven’t checked out my “Can You Help A Brotha Out??” post, please do. I’m asking for everybody that goes to that post to leave a number from 1 to 16 in the comments section. IT DOESN’T MATTER if the number you leave is a repeat. You’re all kind of voting on something that will be revealed in a post tomorrow. One thing I don’t understand is that quite a few people have visited the post but only 20 people have left a number. To quote Mark Jackson, “You’re better than that”.

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There are times in your life you know what you’re doing is wrong. Then there’s times that you do something, only to look back and say, man I shouldn’t have done that(see Jody Reed contract negotiations). This video is both for A-Rod.. There’s no way he thought this was a good idea before or after he participated. It’s hard enough for him to win over the NY fans without them seeing him with his eyes closed, saying “aaaah that’s good, that’s good”, getting a topless back rub…from a man..

I’ve been scouring the Internet for this video only to have TheBigLead.com find it first. Damn it man.

Again.. Props to everybody that has left a number in the Can You Help A Brotha Out?? post. I’m accepting your numbers up until midnight Pacific on Wednesday. It doesn’t matter if you repeat a number that somebody already posted. So, again, please click here  and leave any number from 1 to 16 in the comments.

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