1.   And baseball fretted that offering division series games to ESPN would provoke congressional action on its antitrust exemption.

2.   As the final touch, a northeaster forced a rescheduling of series games, thus threatening a clean sweep of Gotham nights, beginning on Monday.

3.   Best of all, there are the seven amazing series games.

4.   Bill van Breda Kolff keeps Wilt Chamberlain on the bench and plays Mel Counts at center against the Celtics at the end of a championship series game.

5.   Colorado leads this series three games to two.

6.   Divisional series games have never thrilled the networks, because their ratings are low.

7.   ESPN extended its current regular-season deal for three more seasons, and gets all the division series games not on Fox or NBC.

8.   Fox tried to sell the divisional series games to ESPN or Turner Sports, but the offers did not match their financial expectations.

9.   Greg Vanney, twice the hero for the Galaxy in its two Western Conference final series games, played well Sunday.

10.   Make the first two series seven games, and the last one one game.