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By TIMES WIRES
Published October 30, 2006

Cardinals were impressive, but those ratings ... 

A World Series to remember for the C ardinals was one to forget when it came to television ratings. T he Cardinals' five-game victory over the T igers averaged a record-low 10.1 rating and 17 share, Fox said Sunday 

Soccer player ordered to wed

Bulgarian premier league team Litex Lovech has ordered striker Ivelin Popov to get married in the coming year in the hopes it will curtail his wild living. "I accept the order, and I promise to do it," said Popov, who is a key member of Bulgaria's under-21 squad. "My bosses are right to want such a thing from me because they know my temper." Popov is promising to settle down with his current girlfriend. "She's very nice and very smart," he said. "I think this will be the woman of my life, so don't remind me of my past, please."

It's a Temple Owl, run for your life!

File this one under the growing category of words you thought you would never hear: I'll put $200 on the pirate costume and another $50 on the St. Louis Cardinals jersey. Apparently, there is an offshore, online betting service offering odds on the most popular Halloween costumes this year for little people around the world. Guess the question of which country Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will adopt a child from next was just too mundane. (Yes, there are real odds on that one.) Said William Thompson, a professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas: "I think Elmo is going to win. And dressing up like a (St. Louis) Cardinal has to be 3-1." Jason and Freddy Krueger better step aside for something truly scary and nightmare-causing on the neighborhood block: an Arizona Cardinals or Temple football jersey.

"The big thing is we backed ourselves into a corner the last 20 years. We won too many games for our people."

Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, on the state of the Seminoles, who dropped to 4-4 after a loss to Maryland on Saturday

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