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Coming off an embarrassing 20-17 loss to the Bears Monday night, Packers head coach Mike McCarthy is being forced by team GM Ted Thompson to wear a T-shirt all week that reads "I got out-coached by Lovie Smith" to serve as a reminder of his team's terrible performance.

Just a few hours before a Monday Night grudge match between the Bears and Packers, Chicago fan Bobby Lebrowski and Green Bay native Mike Holstein found common ground thanks to their horrific taste in shoes.

The Cubs are finished playing games at Wrigley Field for 2010, but a reminder of the team's terrible season will remain in place for indefinitely after the stadium's grounds crew was unable to pull down the L flag traditionally flown after defeats of the home team.

Ryne Sandberg's chances to become the next manager of the Cubs took a knock last week when he botched his interview with GM Jim Hendry by not wearing a tie and bringing only one copy of an outdated resume.

The Carmelo Anthony trade race is heating up and the Bulls just upped their stakes by offering everyone on their active roster except Derrick Rose for the displeased Nuggets star.

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen surprised the media Wednesday announcing he would be stepping down at the close of the 2010 season. After charging into first place mid-year, the Sox are now mathematically eliminated from the AL Central race, in danger of finishing in third place and about to be eliminated from the Wild Card hunt, but few expected change to come so quickly.

Earlier this week the flailing White Sox were eliminated from the AL Central race. Rather than dwell on his team's catastrophic stretch play, Sox fan Billy Marowitski had only one thing to say.