Sports picks
This guy says the Buckeyes stay number 1.
If you’re a suffering Notre Dame fan, here’s a site devoted to commiserting over it all.
And if you’re waiting for the baseball playoffs, it’s quite a tangle out there.
With one weekend left in baseball’s regular season, almost nothing about the playoffs is certain except for this: Next week, two of the four first-round series will open in New York, with the Yankees and Mets hosting and with the Statue of Liberty beckoning to all who harbor World Series dreams: “Bring me your flawed, your sputtering, your huddled, injured masses who yearn to spew champagne all over one another.”
Indeed, scanning the lists of teams who, entering yesterday’s play, had already clinched playoff spots (the Yankees, Mets, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins) and the list of those still in contention with three games to play (St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies), one would be hard-pressed to identify a single team without serious flaws and serious questions.
 At least the Bears are off to a great start.
