http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/ostler/...

St. Louis is the first team to 90 wins, and reduces their play-off magic number to 4 as Giants finally lose a game.

Would this help:

#18 Auburn at #13 LSU. Cheerleaders for Auburn will hold up cards that spell out S-A-T, while cheerleaders for LSU will hold up cards that spell out A-C-T. (or C-A-T...)

#23 Northwestern at Duke. Duke cheerleaders will yell: "My team's got higher SAT score than your team!", while N'Western cheerleaders will yell: "We have more Nobel Prize Winners!"

Both team have no sideline medical personnel, because the players diagnose themselves and perform onsite operations.

When they huddle, Duke players discuss the impending monetary policy of the Fed's interest rate hike, while N'Western players discuss the failure of Greece and Eurozone bail out, and how the far left failed the Greek population.

#14 Georgia Tech at #8 Notre Dame. Stanford at #6 USC, after playing 2 cupcakes (Arkansas St & Idaho) USC will have third consecutive game at home to start the 2015 season.

#19 BYU at #10 Ucla. Stormin' Mormans invades Pasadena to give Ucla a real test on the field. (Ucla hosted Virginia, then traveled to UNLV)

We also have these games, or what I call "How Much Did You Get Paid" to play games:

Nevada U./#17 Texas A&M, Georgia State/#12 Oregon, Northern Illinois/#1 Ohio State, Univ. Texas at San Antonio/#25 Oklahoma St., and finally Northern Arizona Univ/#20 Arizona

Large number of lopsided games tonight.

Cubs blew 2-1 lead in the 9th against Pittsburgh; now in extras.

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- To make postseason: 9

- To clinch at least one postseason game at home: 10

- To clinch the division: 14

- To clinch home field advantage in the ALDS: 12

- To clinch the top seed in the AL: 19

Tomorrow, Toronto plays the last place Red Sox, while the Yankees visit the first place Mets. The Jays need to take advantage of their opportunities.

BTW: I heard ex-president Jimmy Carter visited the TOR-ATL game. In Canada, there's an election coming up in a month, and when the 3 main party leaders visited, the Jays lost all 3 times.

When a team's magic number is half the number of games remaining, simply playing .500 baseball means their pursuer will have to win every game to catch up. In other words, barring collapse, they're in very good shape.

Other teams in this 50% bracket are Kansas City (DIV and WC 7 with 16 games left), and St. Louis, who are at 2 to clinch a wild card.