Mets solve El Duque [AP photo] Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez takes his first post-season loss as the Mets get within 2-1.

Gary Shelton
Valentine shows faith, and Agbayani rewards it
NEW YORK -- Turns out, there are two baseball teams in New York, after all.

World Series
Eventually, Neagle picked to start
NEW YORK -- Yankees manager Joe Torre needed until late Monday afternoon to decide he would start Denny Neagle rather than David Cone in tonight's fourth game.

Clemens is fined for bat chuck
NEW YORK -- No one but Roger Clemens will ever know if he threw the broken bat at Mike Piazza intentionally in the first inning of Sunday's World Series game. But Major League Baseball decided Tuesday Clemens' actions were inappropriate enough that he was fined $50,000.

Subway series classics: game 4
OCT. 5, 1941, YANKEES 7, DODGERS 4: Brooklyn trails in the Series 2-1 but is a strike from squaring things with a 4-3 win when Hugh Casey pitches to Tommy Henrich. It's strike three swinging, but the ball gets past Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen, Henrich reaches first and things change quickly. Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Keller, Bill Dickey and Joe Gordon reach in succession, and New York wins. The Yankees win the Series the next day.

What they're saying
Newspaper excerpts going into Game 3:

Half a loaf
Word on the street

Bucs/NFL
Kelly's biggest plays are the most visible
Bucs DB has taken the brunt of criticism, but his position coach and teammates say it's unfair.

Lynch: Don't forget Alstott in offense
TAMPA -- Pro Bowl strong safety John Lynch knows a thing or two about stopping a running back and also has an opinion on how to get one started again.

Jet rally displays strength
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Now that the New York Jets have outdone even themselves, the question is: Just what is this team capable of?

The comeback
The New York Jets' comeback from a 23-point deficit after three quarters Monday against Miami was the second-biggest in NFL history. The St. Louis Cardinals beat Tampa Bay 31-28 after entering the fourth quarter down 28-3 on Nov. 8, 1987.

NFL briefs
Warner has surgery on broken finger

College football
FSU defenders see 'dad' on other side
Linebackers go against a familiar face at North Carolina State, which is coached by former Seminoles assistant Chuck Amato.

Weinke takes day off for sore ankle
TALLAHASSEE -- A left ankle injury forced Heisman Trophy candidate Chris Weinke to be a spectator during Florida State's two-hour practice Tuesday.

Teams use byes for changes
TALLAHASSEE -- Coach Bobby Bowden should be used to it by now.

Extra points
Player spotlight, Jarad Moon

Lightning/NHL
Clearly, Modin seeing visor as safety solution
The Lightning forward is protecting himself, and his productiveness has not been hurt -- in fact, it has picked up.

NHL briefs
NEW YORK -- Keith Primeau scored 12 seconds in and Simon Gagne had three assists as the Philadelphia Flyers snapped a seven-game winless streak with a 5-4 victory over the Rangers on Tuesday night.

Et cetera
'I just want the racism to stop'
Ex-USF basketball player: Suit isn't personal. It's a matter of principle.

Baseball briefs
White Sox GM steps down

Sports briefs
What was described as one of the worst cases of academic fraud in 20 years cost Minnesota four years' probation and five men's basketball scholarships. But the Gophers escaped the worst penalty.

Outdoors
Captain's corner
The anticipated king mackerel migration barely has begun. The next cold front will bring the main push our way. That's when I expect everything to bust loose, when the water temperature stabilizes at 73 degrees.

Tennis
Top-seeded Norman pulls out of event
BASEL, Switzerland -- Top-seeded Magnus Norman pulled out of the Swiss Indoors tournament on Tuesday because of a back injury.

NBA
NBA briefs
MIAMI -- Rookie Mike Miller sparked a third-quarter rally that propelled the Magic to a franchise-record seventh consecutive preseason win, 104-90 against Miami on Tuesday.

Preps
East Lake upset again
EAST LAKE -- East Lake won the first game of its Class 5A, District 9 semifinal against River Ridge on Thursday, but it lost something more important: momentum.

Blue Jacket crashes party
It was an honest mistake. Sort of.

Packer wins playing safe
CLEARWATER -- Megan Riley had a plan heading into Tuesday's Class 2A, District 10 tournament at Clearwater Country Club. The Largo senior wanted to play it safe, worry more about making pars than birdies.

Berkeley sweeps A-9 tourney
VALRICO -- The results had been coming in for more than two hours.