• Even without playing yet, Broadway Brett has already paid big dividends for the Jets - just ask the jersey clerks & ticket sellers.

• Was Manny Ramirez bagging it before being booted from Boston?

• The Bengals bring some joy to an injured Iraq veteran, and vice versa.

• Magic Johnson cheers up the Cowboys, but brings down the Mavs.

• Portland citizens are p.o.’ed over Converse’s guerrilla poster campaign.

• A T-ball team in Iowa had their tournament trophies revoked for using ineligible players.

• Don’t blame Quinton Jackson for his auto rampage in the O.C. - he just downed one too many energy drinks.

• An Ohio U. lineman won’t have trouble buying books this semester, since he won $250,000 in the lottery.

• A blue-colored Cubs fan decides to douse a Wrigley reporter with water.

• USC triumphs over USC for the rights to use the interlocking “SC” logo.