10:45 AM So what is Al Davis most concerned with these days? Not winning games, but figuring out a way to fire coach Tom Cable "with cause" in order to avoid paying the balance on his contract.

10:32 AM Cards GM Mozeliak on Mark McGwire intro. "I don't have a timetable yet on when we're going to do things or how we're going to do them. But it's not something we're ignoring." The St. Louis P-D reports St. Louis may have McGwire appear to media before the holidays.

10:19 AM It's signing day in college basketball and Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel reports, "Dayton, FIU (Isiah Thomas), Baylor and Stanford all landed players rated higher than you might expect. Maryland had a critically good haul."

10:00 AM The Wall Street Journal reports that despite the fact that Australian Rules Football players don't where helmets, they're 25% less likely to suffer a head injury than a helmeted American football player.