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Okay, so Mariano Rivera blew his second save in a week. Because he's Mariano Rivera and he plays for the Yankees, and it's September, slumps and ruts no player or team is immune to is magnified three times as much. The Yankees still ended a tough road trip by taking two of three from the Orioles and while they lost a game Sunday they were supposed to win, also remember that they won a game Friday night they were destined to lose. It's the old ebb and flow at work.

Besides, you'd trade a win for what Andy Pettitte did Sunday afternoon looking at the biggest of pictures. In his first Major League start since July 18, Pettitte pitched six impressive innings, retiring 15 of the last 17 batters he faced, including the last 11 in a row. The Yankees weren't the same team without Pettitte. By the

Dylan Hernandez, the Dodgers' beat writer at the L.A. Times, is reporting that Don Mattingly will replace Joe Torre as manager of the Dodgers at the end of the season. An official announcement will be made Friday before the Dodgers' game against the Colorado Rockies.

Torre has been a manager for 28 seasons, the last three with the Dodgers, and Hernandez adds it is still possible he will remain with the organization. Torre, of course, made his name as a skipper during his 12 seasons piloting the Yankees, winning four World Series and six American League pennants before leaving the team at the end of the 2007 season.

Mattingly spent all 14 of his big-league seasons with the Yankees and became one of the most popular players to ever wear pinstripes. He also served under Torre as Yankees hitting

There’s no arguing that Joe Torre’s tenure in New York didn’t end well. There’s also no denying that despite ill will that may never heal, Torre’s place in the history of the storied Yankees franchise shares space with Miller Huggins, Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel. Whether you enjoyed reading “The Yankee Years” or it made your pinstriped blood boil, Torre took the Yankees to the postseason in each of his 12 seasons. His teams played in six World Series and won four, and were three Mariano Rivera outs from winning a fifth in 2001 and seventh American League pennant in 2004.

Huggins won six AL pennants and three World Series championships. McCarthy won nine league titles and seven World Series championships – a record tied only by Stengel –

This was 10 games into Lawrence Frank's tenure as Nets head coach. There was always an intriguing story behind him, but he started the season an anonymous assistant coach to Byron Scott. By the time we sat down for an exclusive interview he had become the flavor of the month in the New York metropolitan area.

The background: During the 2003-04 it was the Nets' policy to not make assistant coaches available to the media, so it was Scott who was the lead mouthpiece to a team off two straight Eastern Conference championships to address the team's underachieving play on the court and speculation of a rift between he and star point guard Jason Kidd.

One game i covered was a Sunday afternoon when they defeated the Boston Celtics to move to 22-20 and snap a five-game losing streak. Scott was ejected