Tagliabue's decision and his supporting opinion are the latest installment

And then Tagliabue reached his highest level of pedantry and pretension with, "If the league wishes to suspend a player for pre-game talk including 'offers' to incentivize misconduct, it must start by imposing enhanced discipline for illegal hits that involved the kind of player misconduct that it desires to interdict."

Tagliabue's decision and his supporting opinion are the latest installment in one of the most bizarre chapters in the history of a league that has thrived with heroic players, solid leadership and lucrative television contracts, and now finds itself watching its former commissioner snipe at its current commissioner on a discipline case that should have been easy.

Yet Chris Paul is with the Clippers

Yet Chris Paul is with the Clippers, Howard with the Lakers, and players seemingly still are getting where they want, how they want.

But if the Lakers, or other potential suitors, knew the Heat could "franchise" LeBron, would they be as quick to shove Kobe and Pau out the door? We've already seen what can happen to teams that bank on free agency and come up short, such as the Mavericks after their failed offseason bid for Deron Williams.

Just this past week DeShawn Stevenson, now of the Hawks but then of the Mavericks, said the forward-thinking approach of Mark Cuban toward 2012 free agency essentially robbed Dallas of at least getting back to the Finals against the Heat.

To his credit, Cuban wanted it all. To Dallas' detriment, it effectively, at least as Stevenson now claims, cost Dallas a season of championship contention.

In the wake of 2010 free agency, David Stern spoke of how the process drew focus to his league, created the type of offseason interest heretofore unseen in the NBA during the summer months. 

NHL players raise their stick and a skate into the air

After an impressive dunk, NBA players release primal yells. NHL players raise their stick and a skate into the air and do a one-legged jig after scoring a goal. And more than a few baseball sluggers have stood at home plate admiring their work a little longer than usual.

Tiger Woods ... you know, back when he was Tiger Woods... pumped his fist, his face contorting whenever he dropped a big putt in a major championship ... you know, back when he won major championships. Such displays were the antithesis of accepted conservative golf decorum. The old guard considered it tacky and in bad taste.

What Alburquerque did was nothing compared with the competition.

Who is Josh Reddick to stand as judge and jury in regards to respecting the game after he showed up the home-plate umpire by angrily flipping his bat after a disputed called third strike?

Diggs actually missed the pylon

"Diggs is an amazing player," said quarterback PerryHills, the front end of Diggs's 113-yard afternoon. "I'm very privileged to have him on my team. Just makes big plays every time he touches the ball. It's a great opportunity to play with him."

And yet there's the obvious question mark. Diggs only had three receptions. He returned seven kickoffs and punts and was solid again in that aspect. But when the ball came his way on plays from scrimmage, the Mountaineers had no answer for the Good Counsel product.

His first score came on a 15-yard out route in front of West Virginia's bench. Diggs planted, tiptoed near the sideline and got solid blocks from Marcus Leak and Kevin Dorsey. Running side-by-side with Mountaineers cornerback Pat Miller, Diggs took flight from the four-yard line, football in his right hand.

Diggs actually missed the pylon. He landed three yards into the end zone.

The membership of Augusta is comprised of a good percentage

I also wonder if Martha Burk and the National Council of Women's Organization's hadn't made a public spectacle about admitting women back in 2002 if the decision to add women members wouldn't have been made faster.

The membership of Augusta is comprised of a good percentage of the most powerful men in the world, men for whom bully and bluster can often fall on deaf ears.

That's where you get the "but not at the point of a bayonet," comment from Hootie Johnson.

Well, that bayonet has dulled in the past decade and Augusta will be the better for it.

The backup catcher was in the lineup Wednesday

Upon re-entering the Dodger clubhouse, Treanor said he was greeted with a hug by teammate Matt Kemp, who was shouting "U-S-A, U-S-A!"

Treanor plans on watching the part of the final that he missed later Wednesday night after the Dodgers game and expects to do a lot more crying and shouting when that time comes.

"Deep down in my heart I wanted to be there for all three of them," he said.

The backup catcher was in the lineup Wednesday night and Mattingly joked, "he wasn't playing until she won."

Treanor said he's hopeful to see his wife in Miami when the Dodgers take on the Marlins, but he's not sure if she'll be able to make it with all the media hoopla that will surround her in the next week. He is beyond proud of his wife for all she has accomplished, getting emotional while talking about all of her accomplishments. 

Thole skipped a single off the front of the mound

"Nothing was as sharp as I needed it to be," said Young.

The Mets finally awakened in the fourth. David Wright opened with a double into the left-center field gap. One out later, Lucas Duda walked and Scott Hairston smashed a double to left, scoring Wright from second. Kirk Nieuwenhuis then sliced a single to left, sending two more runs home. Nieuwenhuis had entered the series batting .133 (6-for-45) since June 16.

Thole skipped a single off the front of the mound and into center field. That ended the night for Young, as Jordany Valdespin came up to pinch hit in the ninth spot. He popped out. Then Ruben Tejada, who fell into a two-strike count, shortened his swing and poked a single through the right side, scoring Nieuwenhuis to make it 5-4. 

Texas rookie Yu Darvish and fellow starters Jake Peavy of the White Sox

The other NL candidates: Arizona second baseman Aaron Hill, Atlanta outfielder Michael Bourn, and St. Louis third baseman David Freese.

The five candidates for the final AL roster spot are all righthanded pitchers: Texas rookie Yu Darvish and fellow starters Jake Peavy of the White Sox and Jason Hammel of Baltimore, and relievers Jonathan Broxton of the Royals and Ernesto Frieri of the Angels.

Third baseman Pablo Sandoval, catcher Buster Posey, and outfielder Melky Cabrera of San Francisco overcame late deficits to win starting spots. Giants ace Matt Cain, who pitched a perfect game in June, made the NL pitching staff.

Prosecutors conceded that Mr. McNamee

Mr. Hardin said again and again that the case should not have been brought because Congress had overstepped its bounds. After the verdict, his defense team spoke with three jurors, who said they believed Mr. Clemens never used drugs, according to Mr. Hardin.

"They believed the whole thing was an abuse of the process," Mr. Hardin said of the jurors.

In the end, the trial became Mr. Clemens's word against that of Mr. McNamee, who claimed he injected Mr. Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs. Mr. Clemens said Mr. McNamee injected him with only vitamin B12 and the painkiller lidocaine.

Prosecutors conceded that Mr. McNamee was a flawed witness but said that they had enough corroboration of his story to elicit a conviction. The defense said he "cooked the books" to set up Mr. Clemens for a fall. 

Heading into Thursday night's regular-season finale

His embarrassingly bad Charlotte Bobcats have one more shot to avoid the title.

Heading into Thursday night's regular-season finale, the Bobcats are teetering on the verge of the worst winning percentage (.106) ever and could clinch the dubious distinction with a loss at home to the New York Knicks in the lockout-shortened season.

Charlotte is a woeful 7-58 and its record-setting futility would eclipse the 39-year-old mark held by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers. That team finished 9-73 (.110) in a full regular season.

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Davis was benched for the fourth quarter in Milwaukee

Baron Davis is playing with neck, back and hamstring injuries and is limited on most nights to 25 minutes or less. His play often erodes as the game wears on, and he has trouble keeping up with younger, quicker guards.

Davis was benched for the fourth quarter in Milwaukee, and he played just 2 minutes 31 seconds in the final period a night earlier, in Chicago. He sat out most of the fourth quarter and overtime against the Bulls on Sunday. With no other alternatives, Woodson is now using the rookie Iman Shumpert, a combination guard, as his de facto point guard during crunch time.

The backup point guard situation is a mess. Toney Douglas seemed to get untracked last week in Orlando, but Woodson used him sparingly in the two games against the Bulls and did not play him at all against the Bucks. Instead, Shumpert played 42 minutes. 

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Jamie McCourt initiated the divorce proceedings

Five years later, Frank fired Jamie (the team's CEO and president) in a termination letter that cited "insubordination, non-responsiveness, failure to follow procedures and inappropriate behavior with a direct subordinate," a reference to an affair he alleged she had with her driver.
When Jamie McCourt initiated the divorce proceedings - one week shy of what would have been the couple's 30th anniversary - she disclosed the details of a lavish lifestyle financed by the couple's only source of revenue: the Dodgers. "Frank and I enjoyed the many perquisites and benefits that come with owning a Major League Baseball team," she wrote in a court declaration.

Woods closed with a 2-under 70

Woods closed with a 2-under 70 and won by five shots over Graeme McDowell.

"I think he really just kind of nailed home his comeback," McDowell said. "Great to have a front-row seat watching maybe the greatest of all time doing what he does best — winning golf tournaments."

Woods had gone 923 days and 27 tour events since he last posed with a trophy, and it showed.

Kneeling to look at his line as he waited his turn to putt on the 18th, Woods tapped his putter on the ground and could barely contain a grin, knowing that the longest PGA Tour drought of his career was about to end. When he tapped in for par, he clenched his fist, screamed out, "Yeah!" and hugged his caddie, Joe LaCava.