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• The Big Lead is offering 5-1 odds that Blue Jays manager John Gibbons will be the first managed pink-slipped.
• Add Stacey Dales to list of one-time contemporaries who are kickin' our ass.
  
  The ESPN reporter and WNBA player already had the edge in television presentation or basketball skills and now the fellow Eastern Ontarian is blogging on the Chicago Sky's team website. So for those of you keeping score at home (Hi, Mom), the list of contemporaries kicking Sager bee-hind includes but is not limited to ... well, we could go on, but that's enough cause to crawl under the covers with the comfort food.
• Remember how in high school football, you'd get back on the bus after an away game without changing? Western College Hockey reports that a hockey player did that after his team's championship game this weekend — only he kept his gear on for 26 hours to break the unofficial record Colorado Avalanche role player Shjon Podein set in 2001. It goes without saying the guy who did this was from Minnesota.