Renee Thomas and Angela Keathley (below) are no longer with the Panthers after violating the Panthers' code of conduct. AP
	But the duo should land on their feet pretty quickly. AP
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1. The two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders who allegedly got into a bar fight over the weekend after having sex with each other in a bathroom stall were dismissed by the team on Monday for violating its code of conduct. According to the code, titillating behavior must be strictly limited to working hours.

2. At least it looks like the out-of-work cheerleaders will land on their feet. They quickly received offers from several Vikings.

3. Peyton Manning and the Colts finally beat the Patriots on Monday night at Foxboro by a convincing 40-21 score. Still, not everyone was impressed. In fact, Terrell Owens said that the Colts would be undefeated with Brett Favre.

4. Pete Rose Jr. pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that he was distributing GBL, a drug sometimes sold as a steroid alternative, to his minor league teammates. Fortunately, this will have no effect on Rose Jr.'s Hall of Fame chances.

5. Actually, this Pete Rose Jr. story is odd on several levels. First, according to the AP story, among the claims made by those who tout GBL is that it can both enhance sex and induce sleep. Aren't those pursuits somewhat mutually exclusive? Secondly, when taken orally, GBL can be converted into GHB, the so-called date rape drug. Really, which is more of a black eye for a baseball team -- that the players are loading up on a steroid-like substance or trying to cook up mickeys? From baseball's perspective, there might not be a lesser evil in that equation.

6. Mike Piazza would be eligible to catch for Italy in next year's inaugural World Baseball Classic according to eligibility rules being discussed by baseball officials and the union. Apparently, European teams don't require their catchers to throw anybody out to be eligible.

7. Duke was a runaway No. 1 pick in the AP's preseason college basketball poll. No. 2 was Anyone But Duke.

8. Coach George O'Leary's Central Florida team is a bowl-eligible 6-3 after finishing 0-11 last season. O'Leary is really hoping the Knights get that bowl bid since he's already been listing it on his resumé.

9. NFL kickers such as Neil Rackers and Jay Feely make field goals look like formalities, but that's because they are pros. Still, few kickers have had to struggle more with the uprights than this Ohio high schooler. 

10. The 10 Spot enjoys Curb Your Enthusiasm, but is starting to wonder if Larry David is running out of ideas. Two episodes ago, Larry and Jeff had a dispute over the rules of eeny-meeny, just as Jerry and George did in an early Seinfeld episode. (Though the stakes had been raised from which one would get an apartment to who would donate a kidney.) Last episode, there was a running gag on Larry's distaste for people bringing items into the rest room, starting with him tossing an US magazine because his cousin had used it as some on-throne reading. But who could forget the Seinfeld episode in which George takes an expensive art book into the rest room at a bookstore, only to be forced to purchase it because it had been "flagged?" And yes, the reason I bring this up is because I, too, am plum out of material today. See you Thursday.