Did you know that Tom Brady’s career record is 56-2 when holding a lead at the half?

Patriots linebacker Roosevelt Colvin has been nominated for NFL Defensive Player of the Week after his game against the Chargers. Also nominated were Chicago linebacker Lance Briggs, San Francisco cornerback Nate Clements, Indianapolis safety Bob Sanders and Minnesota safety Darren Sharper.

Patriots fans can vote for Colvin through Thursday at NFL.com.

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was impressed with the 65 yard interception return for a touchdown by linebacker Adalius Thomas. So impressed he invoked the name of Lawrence Taylor, who Belichick coached with the Giants.

“I thought it was an impressive run,” said Belichick. “I thought he showed a lot of speed there and it didn’t look like he was losing a lot of ground. It reminded me of the play against Detroit when I was with the Giants when Lawrence Taylor intercepted a pass on the goal line and went down the sideline.”They were chasing him for a while, but they didn’t chase him all the way, but Lawrence kept looking over his shoulder and saw the shadows from himself and he thought it was another player chasing him, so even though he was out in front of the whole team by 40 or 50 yards, he was running like there was a guy that was about to dive and trip him up by the ankles.

“He was a big guy that was pulling away from a lot of people on that run, too. That play was a long touchdown return by a linebacker. You don’t see a lot of those, but it was nice to see it.”

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Gagné sucks,

he blows, he’s killing the Sox. I am so pissed right now, we will have to skip the game recap.

He blew the friggin game tonight. 2-1 lead when he starts. 2-run deficit when he walked off the mound. Stay in Canada you dumb piece of _________.

I wouldn’t come back to Boston if I were you.

After Gil Grissom and his Las Vegas CSI team finished up their investigation and passed their evidence over to the Clark County District Attorney’s office, the D.A. has officially filed charges against OJ and his cohorts.

They were each charged with the following:

• two counts of first-degree kidnapping
• two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon
• burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon
• two counts of assault with a deadly weapon
• conspiracy to commit kidnapping

• conspiracy to commit robbery
• conspiracy to commit a crime
• coercion with with use of a deadly weapon
• illegal use of OJ

Ok, so that last one is made up. But folks if these charges stick, OJ is screwed.

Things aren’t looking good for Notre Dame as they were shutout 38-0 by Michigan to fall to 0-3. And things got worse as backup quarterback Demetrius Jones didn’t show up for the bus on Friday. The reason he didn’t show up is he decided to transfer to Northern Illinois. He cited comments from Charlie Weis about Jimmy Clausen being the top QB throughout spring practice and into the start of the season. Clausen wasn’t named the starter for the season opener because of elbow surgery to remove bone chips.

The University of Kentucky was fined $25,000 by the SEC because they violated the league’s policy about fans rushing the field. The Kentucky faithful rushed the field after the Wildcats beat their in-state rivals, the Louisville Cardinals 40-34.

Arkansas defensive tackle Ernest Mitchell was thrown out of Saturday’s game against Alabama for grabbing a ‘Bama player’s helmet and hitting him with it. Well, he was suspended by head coach Houston Nutt for one game for his actions in the game.

The Gamecocks of South Carolina have lost one of their defensive starters, Nathan Pepper, to an ACL injury. He suffered it in the team’s 38-3 win over South Carolina State. He will miss the rest of the regular season.

Gamecocks starting safety Emanuel Cook is due in court January 24th of next year to face gun charges after he was arrested on August 24th. He had been suspended from the team and the school but was reinstated. He then underwent an emergency appendectomy before the start of the season and recovered to regain his starting spot this past Saturday.

The Miami Hurricanes were not so surprised to hear that Texas A&M player Martellus Bennett honored former Hurricane and injured Buffalo Bills player Kevin Everett by wearing Everett’s #85 in the Aggies game on Saturday against Louisiana-Monroe. Bennett had been recruited by the U but scorned them for the Aggies. The two teams will meet up this Thursday night at the Orange Bowl.

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Chalk me up as one of many in Red Sox Nation who is worried about things right now. I don’t know why I am though as the magic number to make the playoffs is 5 while the magic number to clinch the AL East is 9. Of course we want the Red Sox to win the AL East and have the best record in the American League. The Sox got spizzanked last night as the Big Hurt put a hurting on the Red Sox with 3 home runs. To complicate matters, Dustin McGowan was dealing last night and the Sox could only manage one run. Needless to say, the Sox will need a good outing from Jon Lester tonight. But before he gets out on the mound, let’s take a look at the headlines from the Boston area and Toronto media on this chilly morning in New England.

Sox are left hurting [Boston Globe]

Thomas treble powers Jays [The Globe and Mail]

Sox reach a low point [Boston Herald]

Thomas cranks out a trio of homers [Toronto Star]

Red Sox Sleepwalk [Hartford Courant]

Three big hurts [Toronto Sun]

Weary Sox fall prey to Blue Jays [Pro Jo]

Ramírez will make the call [Boston Globe]

Glaus surgery goes well [Toronto Sun]

Buchholz To Get A Start [Hartford Courant]

Gagne’s up in bullpen [Boston Herald]

Numbers, history in Sox’ corner [Pro Jo]

Injuries, pitching woes too much to overcome [Toronto Star]

We’ve seen this before [Boston Globe]

Orsillo going national [Pro Jo]

For more headlines and stories, head over to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Providence Journal, Hartford Courant, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and Toronto Sun websites.

Clay Buchholz will get the start for the Red Sox on Wednesday night.

Angels pitcher Dustin Moseley is now a part of baseball history.

A’s outfielder Nick Swisher was back to his normal self yesterday after charging the mound on Sunday.

The Blue Jays have shut down Lyle Overbay for the season.

Carl Crawford will miss the Devil Rays series against the Angels with leg injuries.

Jeremy Sowers was called back up to the Indians to help out for the stretch run.

Mariners prospect Charlton Jimerson got a homecoming visit as they play in Oakland this week.

Jamie Walker set an Orioles record with his 77th appearance of the season out of the bullpen.

Rangers skipper Ron Washington was upset with Vincente Padilla after he hit Nick Swisher.

Royals skipper Buddy Bell remembers when Jim Thome was a young pup.

Injured Tigers starter Jeremy Bonderman played catch on Monday.

Alexi Casilla’s new cellphone was to blame for his late arrival to the Twins game on Sunday.

White Sox slugger Jim Thome received a lot of congratulations for reaching 500 homers in his career.

Yankees closer Mariano Rivera was OK after a pinkie scare on Sunday night.

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In the notes and musings for tonight’s game, I told you about the annual hazing ritual of the rookies on the final road trip of the season. After some hard searching, I came across this video of the festivities.

The best part of the whole thing is that the Red Sox had to go through customs last night as they were heading to Toronto. There had to be some strange looks on the customs officials.

Dustin McGowan threw a complete game and Frank Thomas hit three home runs to lead the Toronto Blue Jays over the Red Sox 6-1 at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Monday night. McGowan scattered 5 hits and struck out 9 while allowing just the 1 run.The loss drops the lead in the AL East to 4 games depending on the outcome of the Yankees game tonight.

The story of the night though was Thomas. Thomas hit two of his homers off of Wakefield and one off of Kyle Synder. The last time the Big Hurt hit three homers in a game was back in 1996 against the Red Sox and the pitcher was Wakefield.

The Big Hurt got the first of his three homers in the 1st inning. Wake issued Vernon Wells a walk and then got Matt Stairs to fly out. With Alex Rios at the plate, Wells stole second and went to third when Rios grounded out to Dustin Pedroia at second. He came around to score when Thomas crushed a high knuckler into the seats for a 2-0 Jays lead. Aaron Hill followed that up with a single and stole second with Gregg Zaun at-bat. Zaun ended up grounding back to Wake to end the inning.

McGowan was cruising as he set down the first nine Red Sox batters he faced. Jacoby Ellsbury finally broke through off of McGowan as he led off the 4th with a single. Pedroia grounded out to second but with Ellsbury’s speed, Hill could only go to first. McGowan got David Ortiz to fly out for the second out. My Red Sox MVP drove in the only Sox run of the night with a double that scored Ellsbury, cutting the lead to 2-1. McGowan finished off the 4th by getting J.D. Drew to ground back to him.

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