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1. Dodgers president Frank McCourt announced that starting next season, the team will remove player names from its home and road jerseys. The Yankees are the only other major league team to do so. Of course, everyone's jumping on the Yankees bandwagon these days.

2. No wonder Curt Schilling was so magnanimous in victory on Wednesday night, even elevating Calvin Schiraldi to the pantheon of "great Red Sox players." (Sure, right up there with Byung-Hyun Kim.) Big Schill pocketed an additional $2 million with Boston's victory. After Schilling signed his deal in the offseason, the league prohibited such arrangements. That seems strange. Many players have individual-oriented incentives in their contracts, earning extra cash if, for example, they make an All-Star team or place in the top three of MVP voting. Wouldn't a cash incentive based on team achievement be even more fitting? Any team winning the World Series should be more than happy to pay off.

3. The New York Post doesn't seem to be handling the Yankees' defeat and the Red Sox's world championship very well. On Thursday, the Post ran a "news" story about a Staten Island couple's wedding night on Saturday at a hotel in Salem, Mass., being ruined by a Sox-loving busboy. Peter and Dianna Mercuri say that busboy Derek Lojko, upon discovering that the bridal party was from New York, chanted "Yankees suck!" and allegedly threatened to beat up the groom and guests. Peter Mercuri claims his sister-in-law was so frightened that she spent the night in the not-so-happy couple's room. A spokesperson for the hotel called the story a "whole pack of lies." To which the 10 Spot responds, if it's in the Post, doesn't that mean it has to be true?

4. Tiger Woods' caddy Steve Williams said during a TV interview that a swing change, not romance, caused Tiger to fall to No. 3 in the world standings. Williams then threw the camera in a lake.

5. NHL lockout update: NHL executive VP Bill Daly and NHLPA senior director of business affairs Ted Saskin met Wednesday in New York. But don't get too excited. According to the Associated Press, "no negotiating took place and no plans were made to meet in the future." In fact, the labor dispute was discussed "just in a passing fashion." Let's hope the conversation didn't cross two lines.

6. The Clippers hosted a halftime shooting contest between media members during Thursday's preseason game against the Suns. The winner was to take home $2,500 and a 10-day contract.

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7. It's hard not to root for Nets center Alonzo Mourning, who scored 12 points in 19 minutes Thursday in his first game since a kidney transplant on Dec. 19. Mourning has played just 25 games in three seasons since being diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, and must wear a fiberglass pad to protect his kidney area. It's hard to imagine that the 34-year-old will make it through a full season, but it won't be for a lack of effort. Too bad the Nets were essentially dismantled in his absence.

8. Lock of the Week: Before gloating over our 5-2 record thus far -- OK, after gloating -- let's discuss what might just be the most important football game in a generation. Since the Redskins officially became the Redskins in 1933, the result of the team's final home game before the presidential election has predicted its outcome. If the Redskins won, the incumbent party has retained the White House. If they lost, the incumbent party was defeated. This Sunday, the Redskins host the Packers, who are two-point favorites. We're taking the Redskins, in part because the Green Bay secondary might be missing two injured starters. If Washington does win, John Kerry will then try to reverse the curse.

9. Apprentice update: Perhaps it's just because we have election fever, but Thursday's episode seemed freighted with hot-button political issues. At one point, Ivana actually called her Apex team leader, the frazzled Elizabeth, a "flip-flopper." Mosaic team leader Andy, the young debate champ, responded to some second-guessing by one of his teammates by saying, "It's just a way to find an exit strategy when we should be focused on trying to win with what we have." Then in the boardroom, The Donald told Elizabeth: "As a leader, if you believe you're right, you have to stand by it no matter what." Trump then tossed Elizabeth before she had a chance to bring back anyone else with her to the boardroom. That was the right call on Elizabeth, who had zero respect from her teammates. Still, the show has devolved into a dispiriting mess in which team members trash the project manager just in case they lose. It might be time for My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss to clear out the whole lot of them. Let's not forget, though, that the 10 Spot's choices of Jennifer M., Raj and Kevin are all alive and well.

10. Jeopardy! update: Ken had no worries in Thursday's show, earning his usual $30,000 in a runaway victory. That's after Ken lost $2,000 on one of the trickier sports-related conundrums in the show's history. In the category of "That Don't Sound Right," the answer was, "Franklin P. Adams probably didn't think the verse flowed describing, in scoring order, a 3-6-4 DP by these 1910 Cubs." Think a second before responding. Bob, a businessman and attorney in third place, buzzed in with a logical try, reversing the famous order and asking, "What is Chance to Evers to Tinker?" Sorry. Ken tried next, but couldn't even re-order the names in time. The correct 3-6-4 sequence is Chance to Tinker to Evers. Ken did hit Final Jeopardy (Category: Historic Areas. A: In 1893, as it was disappearing, F.J. Turner wrote a famous essay on "The significance of" it in "American history." Q: What is the frontier?) and now has $2,095,301 on his 62 victories.