Weekly Wrap-Up: September 30, 2008

An accumulation of aimless accounts and assumptions from the week that was…

NOT SO GREAT SCOTT: After posting an 11-25 record since 2006 (including 0-4 to start this season), the Rams fired head coach Scott Linehan yesterday. It appears that, if the losing wasn’t enough, the saga surrounding Marc Bulger’s benching was.

CHI-TOWN SHOWDOWN: Tonight, the White Sox and Twins will play a 163rd baseball game to decide who receives the honor of losing to the Tampa Bay Exorcists in the ALDS. Something to consider: the Twins are 35-46 outside of the Metrodome this season. That’s something they’ll have to work on before they move to Target Field in 2010. All corny jokes aside, I think the ChiSox will claim the AL Central tonight.

RUSSIAN ROULETTE FOR RANKED TEAMS: Eight of the AP Top 25 (including top five teams USC, Georgia, and Florida) fell this weekend. Many questions abound, including but not limited to, “Who should be number one now?” “Is this the year a non-BCS team goes to the championship game?” and “How the heck did the Trojans only fall to ninth by losing a game in that conference?”

CRAZY OLD MAN: I’m sorry, but when I found out that Brett Favre passed for six touchdowns yesterday, it reminded me of a Nextel commercial with Mark Martin and Carl Edwards. Just sayin’.

TOTO, I’M ACTUALLY A LITTLE HAPPY WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE: Speaking of Carl Edwards, his late-race heroics salvaged what was otherwise a less-than-exciting…wait for it…Camping World RV 400 Presented by Coleman. Does anyone remember a time when this track produced an exciting Cup race?

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY: Babe hit #60 (1927), Clemente earned his 3,000th and final hit (1972), and Mike Witt threw a perfect game (1984).