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Tyler Kepner/ NY Times Yanks get smacked by the Red Sox, despite a 6-0 lead. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the six-run deficit was the largest the Red Sox have overcome in a victory over the Yankees since May 16, 1968. Saturday’s game took 4 hours 21 minutes to complete, the same duration as Friday night’s thriller. Both teams can use the extra rest before Sunday night’s series finale.

Inside The Lakers Tex Winters had a stroke. Tex Winter, the 87-year-old special consultant to Lakers coach Phil Jackson, suffered an apparent stroke while attending a reunion of the Kansas State basketball team in Manhattan, Kan.

Gene Wojciechowski/ ESPN Randy Johnson's high school scouting reports weren't very flattering. That same April of '82, another scout wrote, "Just about average [major league] velocity at the present time. Could get above-average when he gets some weight on him."

BBC Super Bowl in London? NFL is exploring the possibility. "We have had very substantive conversations with the city of London. We've got to the point of exploring the bid document," he added.

Marc Stein/ ESPN Will Shaq end up in NO next year? I have my doubts. O'Neal's interest in a return to the NBA territory closest to his LSU roots is even more genuine than we thought. Mitch Lawrence of the New York Daily News wrote recently that O'Neal "thinks" he's going to New Orleans in a deal headlined by Chandler. I've since heard that Shaq was not at all shy about telling Chris Paul what a great arrangement that would be when they were Western Conference teammates at All-Star Weekend.

Ric Bucher/ ESPN Billy Hunter doesn't see any need to change the current CBA. He wants the rich owners to share their wealth with the broke ones. Good luck. "One of the principle issues is that some owners are having a hard time with cash flow," Hunter said. "I don't see why that automatically means more give-backs from the players. It seems to me a new revenue-sharing plan among the owners is one of the things they have to look at. Then you wouldn't be looking to the players every time there's a shortfall."