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The Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics are both small-market teams with big MLB Playoff aspirations.
October is the best month for college football, and it is getting started on the right foot this weekend. The first weekend in October will serve up six games between top 25 teams, which will be a nice breath of fresh air after the last few weeks.
The Oakland Raiders have a bye week to lick their wounds from the 38-14 loss to the Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium in London last weekend. If the Silver & Black wants to win in Week Six against the San Diego Chargers at the Coliseum, they need to fix many things in the next two weeks.
If the 49ers want to win their second straight game it will come at the expense of their former number one pick Alex Smith, and his new team the Kansas City Chiefs. If they run the ball and limit the mistakes, San Francisco will run away with this one late.
The team parted ways with the coach a day after the team's 38-14 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday that dropped the team to 0-4.
The Sacramento Republic won the USL Pro championship in the team's inaugural on Saturday with a 2-0 win over the Harrisburg City Islanders.
Just rewind two Octobers ago, when the Giants overcame six elimination games on the way to their second World Series championship in three years.
For the Royals, it's "Big Game James" - James Shields, the centerpiece of a deal with the Tampa Bay Rays that finally pushed the long-downtrodden franchise into the postseason for the first time in 29 years. For the A's, it's Jon Lester - the postseason star of the Red Sox last season who was acquired by Oakland at the trading deadline just for this moment.
Let's take a look at why exactly the New York Jets need to make the switch from Geno Smith to Michael Vick.
Jim Harbaugh has no time for Deion Sanders, Trent Dilfer or others who want to question whether the fourth-year coach has lost his locker room or the faith of his players
