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Everyone considers the first few weeks the toughest just because we're picking off of last year's results and what's now on paper. Fortunately for us, so isn't Vegas, and your friendly neighborhood offshore bookie. This gives the common man a few key advantages.

If you're not ready for some Red Sox Yankees then watch some of these videos, it should help. What will the 2009 playoffs hold? I'm thinking something epic.

On Thursday A bankruptcy court approved the Company’s $845 million sale of the Chicago Cubs to the family of Joe Ricketts, owner of TD Ameritrade discount brokerage. His son, Tom, will be the controlling owner.

The sale still needs to go through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Oct. 12, and a three-quarters vote of Major League Baseball owners must approve of the deal.

I really don't even know what to say about this picture of Cole and Heidi Hamels. I'm just happy I'm not a Phillies fan.

This video happens to be a recording of a Phillies fan watching Brad Lidge blow another save against the Marlins but in reality, if you're a baseball fan, you can insert your team and you've felt what he's felt before. Enjoy.

According to NY Post, Plaxico Burress had a difficult night at Rikers Island on his first night.

They shouted "asshole!" and "The Giants suck!" according to jail guards.

"He was depressed," said one guard from Rikers, where the former Giants superstar spent his first-ever night behind bars. "He was trying to keep to himself, but everyone was yelling at him."

If you're not from New England you may not know who David Givens is. David Givens is the Patriots' career leader in postseason touchdown catches with seven. After a career in New England where it is said that he became a good receiver only because Tom Brady was his QB, he left the Patriots and joined the Titans in March of 2006.

The Bengals Chad Ochocinco thought he had us fooled. Last Sunday Chad performed the famous Lambeau Leap in Green Bay after scoring a touchdown.

It turns out that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel dug deeper into this story and discovered that Ochocinco used his Twitter account and put out the word. And Mike Bergs; his brother, Lee; and Lee's friend, Brian Keil, became part of the conspiracy.