If it were a television series, it would be called "Defying the Odds." Five weeks into a new TV season, three of the four top broadcast networks have bigger prime-time audiences than they had in 2008. With cable networks flexing their muscles, digital video recorders ...

Reporters are not allowed to enter the men's and women's locker rooms. The rule was apparently put in place because players were complaining that it was a tad bit uncomfortable having reporters in their changing space, according to Marc Berman's New York Post blog last year. I remember learning of the rule last year when I read ...