The San Francisco Chronicle will no longer refer to Washington, DC's NFL team as the Redskins.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune will no longer refer to Josh Furman as a quarterback.

Blackhawks goalie Nikolai Khabibulin has allowed 10 goals on his last 45 shots faced.
Are opposing teams playing Ronald Reagan's Brandenburg Gate speech in the dressing room?

TSN announced plans to broadcast every Kansas college basketball game this season.
It will be the first thing from Kansas on Canadian TV since The Wizard Of Oz.

Nice to see Jordan Farmar on the Lakers again.
Showtime is back in L.A.

After 15+ years EA Sports is dropping Tiger Woods from the title of its golf game.
It's about time Carl Spackler got his due.

The Raptors and Bucks had to quit because the playing surface was too slippery.
That's the same excuse the Buffalo Sabres are using.

Good thing for the Cards' Allen Craig he got that obstruction call: he was moving from 3rd to home like a three-legged race.
He looked like Jack Nicholson in the hedge maze at the end of The Shining.

China towed away that zombie car covered in ivy.
Wrigley Field wants its old bullpen car back.

For the first night ever in Boston sports history, the Red Sox got more tripping calls against them than the Bruins did.

Roger Goodell says he wants NFL franchises in both L.A. and London.
They could be a significant new source of fine revenues.

NBA owners approved a 2-2-1-1-1 series format for the Finals.
They spent 20 minutes trying to explain it to the Charlotte Bobcats before throwing up their hands and saying "What's the point?"

Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is getting a new trial for a '70s murder he was convicted of 11 years ago.
From his prison cell in Nevada, O.J. Simpson said if he is let out, too, he'd be happy to assist in the hunt for the real killer.

The Portugal-Sweden World Cup playoff draw ensures either Cristiano Ronaldo or Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be out.
Regardless, grilled sardines will advance.

Kinda sad on the field after the game: Eli handing out discount coupons for the Passing Academy to Freeman.

Day 5 of extreme fog in Vancouver.
The visibility range is Josh Freeman surveying the field.

The Giants and Vikings are a disaster on Monday Night Football.
I've seen better-played preseason CFL games.

Has anyone ever gone from being an instructor at the Manning Passing Academy to a student?

Jim Leyland wants to spend more time with his grandkids.
For Halloween, he'll be giving tours of his haunted bullpen.

What color of smoke coming from Comerica Park signifies the Tigers have found Jim Leyland's replacement?

Russian divers found a five-foot diameter chunk of that February meteorite at the bottom of a murky lake in the Ural Mountains.
That they can find, but there's still no sign of Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring.

The Rams have discussed signing Tim Tebow.
If he goes to St. Louis while the World Series is on, he'll be rooting against the team that looks like Jesus.

Nice Alex Edler centre ice shot Marc-Andre Fleury let in to open the Canucks-Penguins scoring Saturday.
He looked like Prince Fielder playing first base.

Oregon wore pink helmets against Washington State, and rose awareness about breast cancer and deficiencies in Mike Leach's defense.

LeBron James wants to play a NFL game.
How about Madden 25?

LeBron James says he wants to play one NFL game.
Maybe the Browns can offer him a contract but he can sign with the Dolphins instead.

Celtics great Bill Russell was arrested at Sea-Tac after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on bag.
I guess that finally settles the debate over whether Russell would fit in in today's NBA.

Toughest job in sports right now: Grambling State recruiting coordinator.

Colts owner Jim Irsay said Peyton Manning was into putting up "Star Wars numbers".
Look for the Broncos to be up by two touchdowns Sunday in less than 12 parsecs.

Who sponsors the Tigers bullpen calls - Kingsford?

Torii Hunter is upset the policeman in the Red Sox bullpen didn't do anything to help.
That's okay; at least he wasn't as bad as the firemen in the Tigers bullpen.

Why does the home-plate umpire wear a black dinner jacket?
Do their passes to get into the ballpark say "semiformal wear suggested"?

Baseball players - Red Sox, A's, Brian Wilson - stop with the beards!
You look like a mountain goat at an Arcade Fire concert.

A Vancouver art gallery is prepared to spend big bucks for some Andy Warhol prints of Wayne Gretzky coming up for auction.
You'd think they would know better after the locals' experience overpaying for a facsimile of Mark Messier.

For Halloween, my niece is going to be an Oregon cheerleader possessed by marketing demons.

In NHL disciplinary news, the Canucks Alex Edler was suspended 3 games for Jason Botchford publishing Joe Thornton's comments.

Chicago Bears WR Brandon Marshall wore green shoes on Thursday Night Football to support Mental Illness Awareness Week.
Oregon Ducks cheerleaders will wear green contact lenses Saturday to make us more aware of mental illness in the Oregon athletic department.

Virginia Tech and Tennessee will play a college football game before up to 160,000 on the infield of the Bristol Motor Speedway in 2016.
Will there be a NASCAR race on the track at the same time?

A new book claims Sheryl Crow witnessed her then-boyfriend Lance Armstrong blood doping in 2004.
I knew that morning beer buzz was just a gateway drug.

New York City is looking to regulate costumed characters who wander around Times Square posing for pictures with tourists.
Next up for the committee: investigating 53 men who have been impersonating the New York Giants.

Virginia Tech will play Tennessee at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2016.
The game is expected to draw a record 150-160,000 fans.
Also, the world's biggest DUI checkpoint.

Dennis Rodman sort of got his wish: he's been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Pierce Prize.

The Vancouver Canucks are looking good at 3-1.
Damn; there go all the Club 500 jokes I was crafting.

The Rays walk-off home run Monday night landed in the pool filled with actual rays.
That may be the key to the Diamondbacks avoiding future visiting team pool parties: put a couple sharks in there, or closer to their name, some rattlesnakes.

Controversy over whether Condoleezza Rice should be on the College Football Playoff committee.
C'mon - she has plenty of experience sending young men into physically hazardous situations.

That 9-year-old boy who flew to Vegas unattended put his entire piggy bank on the Broncos at -28.

Authorities are investigating after a 9-year-old boy without a ticket boarded a plane for Las Vegas in Minnesota.
There are also 25 men from Tampa somehow getting into ALDS playoff games without a ticket.

San Diego at Oakland with the late NFL game Sunday night.
Ironically,  the Chargers played like there was a pitching mound in the middle of the field.

Exciting times for college football: we're just a year away from a four-team playoff, and subtitles for Lou Holtz.

The Lotto 6/49 jackpot is $31 million, or roughly what Floyd Mayweather bet on WWE Battleground Sunday night.

The Big Ten games today are so dull the Pacific Life game summary whale beached itself out of boredom.

Alex Rodriguez is suing everyone in baseball except the San Diego Chicken.

Congrats to whoever had Roy over Torts in their first meltdown pool.
That contest didn't last long.
Like a 100-meter dash.

By the looks of the Capitals' goaltending, this may be the only shutdown Washington sees this year.

How is The Presidents Cup going forward during the government shutdown?

Utah looks like they are America's Cup crewmen.

Canadian Supreme Court appointee Marc Nadon now says he didn't mean to imply that he was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings.
That would have been impossible, because he was spending that winter touring as the rhythm guitarist in The Guess Who.

Air Force and Navy will play their football game Saturday, despite the government shutdown.
This is great news for Notre Dame's hope of becoming bowl-eligible.

The Commander-In-Chief Trophy college football game between Air Force and Navy Saturday may be canceled due to the government shutdown.
Suddenly, Notre Dame may need the government to achieve bowl eligibility.

I want to hear Jim Cornelison sing "Black Hole Sun".

The NHL opening night pre-game ceremonies are reminiscent of the ending of The Return of the King.

In their pre-game opening ceremony, the Chicago Blackhawks introduced their massage therapist.
I guess he's hoping for a happy ending.

The U.S. government shutdown could not have come at a better time for President Barack Obama, who is intensifying his research for his upcoming NBA fantasy draft.