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If you still haven't figured out your Halloween costume this year, good for you. There's something a little unsettling about anyone who puts too much time and effort into dressing up for a kids' holiday. The world's best athletes, for instance, have much better things to do with their time than try to come up with cool costumes. That's why Page 2 took care of it for them. Check out what a few of our favorites are wearing this year:

The Miami Heat are on a magical journey together, so it makes sense that their costumes would be of cinema's most famous foursome. But the original "Oz" quartet only needed brains, a heart, courage and a way back home. Championship rings are much harder to come by.

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AP Photo/Nick WassCalm down, Ray Ray! You made the Flem File's list.

Every Friday through the Super Bowl, David Fleming will check in with 12 things about the NFL.

When Tony Romo went down in Dallas, the Cowboys chances were officially ended. Inspired by that injury, David lists the 12 players that NFL teams just can't live without, including future Hall of Famer Ray Lewis, James Harrison and perhaps the most valuable kicker in the league.

• Click here to read this Insider article by David Fleming in its entirety

AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal/David B. ParkerSir Charles is looking to rid himself of the Round Mound moniker.

Charles Barkley joined "The Dan Patrick Show" to talk about his impressive weight loss, the Miami Heat and how he's trying his hand at playing golf left-handed.

On how much weight he's lost so far:

"I've dropped 45 so far, I've got to lose about 85. I gained 100 that was just fat. It's ridiculous to be that fat and there's so many people out there that are overweight and have diabetes, and I was one of them. So my doctor told me to lose about 85 or 90 pounds. 45 down, 45 to go Dan."

On if there's anything to take out of Miami's loss on opening night to the Celtics:

"Dan, it's game one of the regular season. It don't mean anything. You can't worry about the media, they're idiots Dan, you know that man. They're idiots. It was number one game of the season. I will admit this: we traveled up to Boston for the game, the crowd was incredible, but the game wasn't very good. I mean it was very sloppy. You could tell Dwyane was rusty, and the teams were hyped, you could tell they were a little excited, so it wasn't great basketball. It was a great environment and I was glad the season finally started, because I was sick of talking about LeBron and the Heat all the time. I'm just glad basketball is here."

On if he remembers when the "experts" were saying Kevin Durant would struggle because he couldn't even bench press 135 pounds:

"Well you know, Dan, a basketball's not that heavy. A basketball is not very heavy."

On what it will take for the Miami Heat to not win it all:

"Well, they've got some problems Dan. Number one, I've watched them play twice, first of all they've got to figure out their rotation because their bench is not good enough. He has to keep two of those guys out there the whole time. When you watch them play, he has to have either Bosh, LeBron or Wade out there -- only one is going to get their rest at a time. He can't take all three out of the game, so he has to figure out which two are going to play together at what particular time. And if they don't get any help from their big guys, because they're a jump shooting team. And as great as Dwyane and LeBron are, they're not great jump shooters. But they don't get any easy shots, they've got to speed the game up. If you just make them take jumpers, they're going to have a tough time all year. I mean they're going to win; they're going to win a lot of games all year, but in the playoffs, that's when you will see their flaws."

On the weight loss still not helping his golf game:

"I'm playing left-handed now, I'm a lefty. Dan, I know this might come as a shock to you, but I sucked as a righty."

• Click here for a transcript of highlights from the interview

Welcome back to another addition of Page 2 Jeopardy!, the quiz that tests your knowledge of sports, pop culture and assorted trivia. Please remember to phrase your responses in the form of a question.

(Correct questions at the end of the quiz.)

1. Answer: The last words of an inmate put to death by lethal injection in Arizona this week were reportedly this two-word cheer popular with the University of Oklahoma.

2. Answer: Of Antrel Rolle of the Giants, Raheem Morris of the Bucs or Roy Williams of the Cowboys, the one this week who did not claim his team is the best in the NFC.

3. Answer: Andy Murray, the No. 4 men's tennis player in the world, strained a tendon in his right hand while engaged in this popular off-the-court activity.

4. Answer: In an effort to reach new fans, this NHL team has been marketing its unusually high number of African-American players.

5. Answer: Actor James MacArthur, who played this iconic 1970s television character, passed away this week at the age of 72.

Question 1: What is Boomer Sooner?

Question 2: Who is Roy Williams?

Question 3: What is playing PlayStation?

Question 4: Who are the Atlanta Thrashers?

Question 5: Who is Danno from the original "Hawaii Five-0"?

Kurt Snibbe/ESPN.comThere's no shame in holding a funeral for your favorite go-to hat.

I don't want to exaggerate the importance of your massive, passionate and empathetic responses to last week's Flem File on saying goodbye to Golden Boy, my favorite hat for almost a decade, but you pretty much restored my faith in mankind.

I thought I was the only one who felt this way about a hat. Boy was I wrong.

And to top it off, one of the responses was from an actual living, breathing angel. Okay, it was an executive from '47 Brand, the company formerly known as Twins Enterprise that manufactured my original blue Miami hat. And, in what is either the kindest act in the history of the world -- or the best/cruelest prank, ever -- a rep from the company says they tracked down an exact replica of Golden Boy and there's a chance I could have GBII resting on my melon by next week.

I'll keep you posted.

In the meantime, check out this multi-media sampling of reader responses. And thanks, you guys, this kind of stuff is why I love my job.

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Baseball people and old-timers always like to say, "The little things matter." You know, like bunting, moving the runners over, making sure Bengie Molina is kept away from the postgame spread until everyone else has had their turn.

Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesDid a tiny Don Mattingly gaffe in July propel the Giants?

Don't scoff. They do matter. In fact, an entire season can rest on the tiniest of circumstances. Take the Giants, on the verge of their first World Series title in San Francisco. They clinched a playoff spot only when beating the Padres on the season's final day. And who can they thank? Don Mattingly.

Back on July 20, the Giants were playing the Dodgers. Manager Joe Torre and bench coach Bob Schaefer had been ejected following a series of hit batters, so Mattingly was skippering the club. It was the ninth inning and the Dodgers led 5-4. Closer Jonathan Broxton was pitching. The outlook wasn't brilliant for the San Francisco nine that day. Mattingly went to the mound for a visit. He started walking to the dugout, then realized he had something more to say. ("Oh, yes . . . throw strikes.") Bruce Bochy realized this constituted a second trip to the mound and Broxton had to come out. In entered George Sherrill, who had an ERA over 7 at the time. Andres Torres promptly hit a two-run double and the Giants won the game.

Just a little something to think about this weekend, Dodgers (and Padres) fans.

David Sherman/NBAE/Getty ImagesKevin Burleson signs autographs for fans whose signatures may, in fact, be more valuable than his.

Here's the problem with celebrating human ineptitude: You can never rent a big enough ballroom.

Earlier this week, Page 2 offered our list of the most impressive least impressive streaks in sports history, such as the Pittsburgh Pirates' 18 consecutive losing seasons and Anna Kournikova never winning a WTA singles title.

Turns out we missed a few.

In the interest of additional snickering thorough journalism, we offer the following additions:

Takeo Spikes

Streak: In 13 NFL seasons, former Pro Bowl linebacker has never played for a winning team.

Fun fact: As Page 2 reader Jon Springer puts it, "[Philadelphia's] Andy Reid was the only coach to recognize the problem and dumped Spikes after going 8-8 one season -- surely they could have gone 9-7 without him."

Vincent Spadea

Streak: In 2000, American tennis player broke an eight-month, 21-match ATP losing streak, the longest in the Open era.

Fun fact: Claims to have later been offered a spot on "The Bachelor," which he turned down.

Kevin Burleson

Streak: Missed 35 consecutive shots from the floor during the 2005-06 NBA season.

Fun fact: Younger brother Nate plays for the Detroit Lions, which means futility-streak empathy is always a phone call away.

University of Toronto

Streak: Football team lost 49 games in a row from 2001-08, the longest streak in Canadian university history.

Fun fact: Team is nicknamed the "Varsity Blues," yet official website makes no mention of cheerleaders with whipped-cream bikinis.

Larry Hughes, Anthony Carter

Streak: NBA guards have both missed 28 3-point attempts in a row.

Fun fact: Ball did not spontaneously combust, "NBA Jam"-style, following streak-busting makes.

Chicago Cubs

Streak: The longest championship drought in North American professional sports history --102 years since the last World Series title.

Fun fact: Including the Cubs seems less obligatory than gratuitous.

One can only hope J.K. Simmons yells at his Ohio State Buckeyes like J. Jonah Jameson, the newspaper editor he plays in Spider-Man, yells at his reporters.

The Michigan native moved to Columbus, Ohio when his father got a job on the music faculty at The Ohio State University, and he's been an OSU fan ever since. When asked if it was treason to be born in Michigan and become a Buckeye fan, he said, "Yeah, me and Vernon Gholston. Anybody got a problem with that?" Gholston, the New York Jets defensive end, grew up in Detroit and played at Ohio State.

Katie Barry J.K. Simmons is from Michigan but became an Ohio State fan after his dad got a teaching job there.

Simmons, "Law & Order," "Oz," and "Juno" star, follows his team all around the country. After getting late-notice tickets to the coveted Ohio State-Michigan game, Simmons finished up a shoot in New York City at 8 p.m. on a Friday and drove nine hours, getting four hours of sleep, and going to the game. After crowd-surfing for nearly 45 minutes, he recalls, he drove straight back to NYC for a noon obligation.

He's a gamer on all levels. Having played a lot of softball in Seattle, and for 20 years in NYC, he's been coaching his kids' baseball games for the past seven years. "So my recent experience has been on that side of the big-time sports world," he quipped. "I pretty much throw whatever ball my kids want to catch." Lately it's been football, because his oldest son plays on the school flag football team.

As a fan, he values sportsmanship and class acts, but when on set, he swings back and forth between heroic characters and darker roles.

"If I was still playing the head of the Aryan Brotherhood, I think I'd be a pretty dark dude," he joked, reffering to his role as Vernon Schillinger in the prison drama, "Oz."

His character in the 2009 film "Up in the Air" said in an exchange that adults loved athletes because of their ability to hang out with lingerie models.

"No model crush here," he conceded. "My beautiful wife is my crush. She's the Fiona to my Shrek. The thing to love about athletes is a combination of natural power and grace along with a real commitment to maximizing their potential. Natural ability plus work ethic. Guys who have all that and are still reasonable human beings who treat other people well are pretty great."

If you're gonna ride a skateboard at this rate of speed, you definitely need to be wearing a helmet.

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Is he or isn't he?

That's the question everybody seems to be asking when they first glimpse LeBron James lookalike Roberson Monis.

Except for the 7-inch height difference -- Monis is only 6-foot-1 -- the Haitian immigrant is turning heads for being the spitting image of the Miami Heat's newest star.

Left: Getty Images, Right: Sandra HarwittRoberson Monis, who works at a restaurant in Miami, says he's frequently mistaken for LeBron James.

Monis said when he recently attended the Heat's preseason game against CSKA Moscow, fans were stopping him for autographs on his way in. And, he laughingly admits, it wasn't because they recognize him from Soyka, a trendy Miami eatery where he buses tables.

So what does the 32-year-old Monis think of being a King James clone?

"It's like reality, real life, that people can look like anybody," said Monis, who admits to occasionally wearing a No. 6 Heat jersey. "But to look like LeBron James, wow, that's awesome. It makes me shake."

Monis is hoping his newfound fame might open doors in the future. A guitar player, he admits he's always dreamed of being a superstar -- not on a basketball court, but on stage as a musician.

Juliette Raymond, the manager of Soyka, says the fanfare surrounding Monis has been "insane." A TV station and local publication stopped by last week to meet him.

Raymond is hoping there's one important person who'll visit Monis at the restaurant soon, and she hopes he brings along some friends: "Please LeBron, we'd love to have you come in anytime, and we'd love to have the team come in, too," Raymond said.

As for Monis, he welcomes the opportunity to meet the "real" LeBron James.

"I'd like to meet him to see if I really look like him," Monis said. "I'm always looking in the mirror and saying, 'Do I really look like him?' But if people are going to give it to me, I'm just going to take it."

Orlando SentinelWe're pretty sure our SVG makeover wouldn't win.

The Orlando Sentinel, which already let fans give Magic coach Stan Van Gundy a mustache makeover, is taking things a bit further, going the full-body approach this time.

When Van Gundy wore a suit at a preseason game, instead of his standard mock turtleneck, the Sentinel wondered if it was time for a makeover for Van Gundy. The Sentinel's interactive feature lets you work up a little somethin' somethin'.

Fans can pick from attire, then enter their makeover in a contest on the site. The Sentinel says the selections will be judged on "creativity, originality and being NBA-ready."

There's no word on if Van Gundy will consult the Internet before Thursday night's Magic home opener against the Wizards.

Work up some magic for the coach at the Sentinel's site here.

Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty ImagesSome readers don't think Rudy Gay, O.J. Mayo, Hasheem Thabeet or the NBA belong in Memphis.

Memphis Grizzlies -- you are the weakest link. Goodbye.

That is the harsh judgement by you, the not-so-gentle Page 2 readers, who gleefully responded to the question of which teams are most deserving of contraction.

The Grizzlies, stuck in a small market with a losing team, clearly were your first choice, even though NBA commissioner David Stern already has tried to quell that idea. It was Stern who played the contraction card in a recent media conference call but said Memphis should not fear elimination of its team.

One reason for Stern's support probably is that Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley is No. 252 on Forbes' list of richest Americans. Also, the FedExForum is one of the league's best arenas.

None of that interested you, of course. Your votes were intended to purify our sporting scene by getting rid of the dead wood. Many of you, in fact, went one step beyond our question by voting to contract entire leagues. Cruel -- but it is a cruel world.

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I covered all of this season's NBA uniform revisions earlier this week. But basketball design goes beyond the uniforms -- each team also has a unique floor design for its court.

I've gathered all 30 of this year's court layouts in the slideshow below, or you can see larger versions by clicking on the thumbnails on this page.

Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, who's from New Jersey, discusses the "Jersey Shore"-themed Halloween costume he wore to teammate Todd Heap's charity Halloween party on ESPN's "First Take."

As the most decorated American Winter Olympian of all time, Apolo Anton Ohno has made plenty of memories. His eight medals (two gold, two silver, four bronze) are unforgettable.

But there's one thing he can't quite remember.

Gregg DeGuire/PictureGroup/APApolo Anton Ohno said the goatee isn't going anywhere.

"I gotta tell you, I haven't seen my chin in years," Ohno said. "I don't know what it looks like underneath there."

He's referring, of course, to that trademark triangular-shaped patch of facial hair -- the goatee? Soul patch?

"It's just a goatee," he says, dismissing any soul patch notions. "That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is."

Whatever you call it, he's keeping it.

"I kinda have to. It's like the bandana," he says, referring to the bandana he wears when he skates. "Now, I can't work out without it. It feels weird when I work out without it."

Fans embraced the goatee when Ohno first rose to prominence, becoming the face of speed skating in the United States.

"It was a phenomenon that started in 2002, at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. People started taking like electric tape and putting it there," Ohno said. "People were putting them on their dogs. It was pretty crazy."

Now it's been with him through three Olympics and even a Dancing with the Stars victory.

"I don't know why I started doing it," Ohno said. "This is not like something I shaped. This is something that grew like this because I'm half-Asian, and for some reason I can't grow true facial hair and when I do it just looks funny."

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This kid has a close call with an exploding bottle of soda. He might want to put that tennis court to its proper use next time.

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While the official Miami debut of LeBron James and Chris Bosh was spoiled by the Boston Celtics on Tuesday, the new teammates have already been a big success in their new uniforms on the collectibles scene.

The first Heat cards of James and Bosh that were found in packs of officially licensed NBA cards have fetched as much as $42 in online auctions tracked by Beckett Media.

Panini America LeBron James made his Heat basketball card debut in the 2009-10 Panini Season Update set.

Those are prices paid for just standard basketball cards, not ones that include an autograph or a piece of a game-used jersey on the card. That's not bad at all, according to Beckett senior market analyst Keith Hower, and that's the kind of interest that should remind basketball collectors of another elite player.

"The last time a team change for a marquee player had such an impact on the hobby was the return of Michael Jordan in a Washington Wizards uniform," Hower said. "A Jordan Bulls card would typically trade for around $5, but the new uni saw his first Wizards cards selling for upwards of $25 per."

Both Bosh and James made their Heat debuts in the 2009-10 Panini Season Update set, which was the final product before this season's cards arrived. Bosh's card in the set has sold in online auctions for anywhere from 30 cents to $14 with a typical sale of about $10.

James' card has proven to be a bit more pricey -- but still as volatile -- as it has sold for as low as $17 and as high as $42. Hower said a majority of the sales are for less than $30, which is where the card presently sits in Beckett's price guide.

Just in case Heat fans didn't have enough cards to look out for, though, Panini America, the lone licensee of NBA cards, tipped off its season with 2010-11 Panini Prestige series. That product includes more than 20 cards of James and more than a dozen different Bosh cards that just might be hotter once the season is in full swing.

The National Sports Collectors Convention annually showcases some of the rarest and most bizarre memorabilia in the world. ESPN's "E:60" sent Bill Simmons to Baltimore to guide us through the menagerie of oddball items and people.

Dr. James Naismith's typewritten 13 original rules of basketball are going up for auction in Manhattan this December, when they are expected to sell for at least $2 million.

As for Naismith's original, lesser-known amendments to the rules? Page 2's dubious network of sources has unearthed these additional guidelines. Take a look:

• Click here to see Page 2's exclusive Naismith document in its entirety

Steve Smith would rather eat cake. Red velvet cake, to be exact. Or cheesecake, he'll take that too.

But because the New York Giants wide receiver wants to continue to have performances like he did against the Cowboys on Monday night (nine catches for 101 yards and a touchdown), he'll instead choose to eat a turkey burger or some chicken skewers. The unique thing is his food comes in a Hollywood-friendly, precooked, calorie-controlled package.

AP Photo/Mike FuentesNew York Giants receiver Steve Smith uses pre-packaged food as part of his fitness regimen.

Smith, a former USC standout, chuckles a bit when he thinks about it -- that he's one of few male athletes who have admitted on record to using a food delivery system that Hollywood starlets order to stay in shape.

He utilizes The Fresh Diet, which has been used by women like actress Pam Anderson and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger to tone up, but Smith says he doesn't care. It's also the same $40-a-day plan that "The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd used to drop 41 pounds, based on the Zone Diet.

He isn't hiding behind it either; he has been seen photographed with a big bag of the ready-made food that gets delivered to him at his New Jersey home daily.

"In the offseason I use it about every day; it was a really big part of my offseason and it helped me just to maintain and stuff," he says.

Smith acknowledges that he had a great physique pre-Fresh Diet, but he opted to do it because he says he's a perfectionist. He knows that there are loads of other players out there who train hard, but says he needed help with the nutrition part of it, and the diet is convenient for a 25-year-old single guy.

The company is based in Miami, and currently services Boston, Philadelphia, the New York area, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Florida.

Smith also gets regular acupuncture treatments and has a Swiss trainer, who helps him to reinforce his regular regimen.

"We try to strengthen my groin and core strengthening and that's really big. That's what you use pass blocking a lot of the time. The acupuncture is kind of uncomfortable, but it's unique, and it's necessary," he said. "It's going to be a long season."

BALTIMORE -- Sister Virginia Muller had never heard of shortstop Honus Wagner.

But she quickly learned the baseball great is a revered figure among collectors, and the most sought-after baseball card in history. And thanks to an unexpected donation, one of the century-old cards belongs to Muller and her order, the Baltimore-based School Sisters of Notre Dame.

AP Photo/Ric FrancisHonus Wagner cards, such as this one seen in Los Angeles in 2008, have sold for millions.

The sisters are auctioning off the card, which despite its poor condition is expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000. The proceeds will go to their ministries in 35 countries around the world.

The card is part of the T206 series, produced between 1909 and 1911. About 60 Wagner cards are known to exist.

A near-mint-condition T206 Wagner card sold in 2007 for $2.8 million, the highest price ever for a baseball card. Muller remains aghast that the 1¼-inch-by-2½-inch piece of cardboard could sell for even a fraction of that.

"It just boggles your mind," Muller told The Associated Press. "I can't remember a time when we have received anything like this."

The brother of a nun who died in 1999 left all his possessions to the order when he died earlier this year. The man's lawyer told Muller he had a Honus Wagner card in a safe-deposit box.

When they opened the box, they found the card, with a typewritten note: "Although damaged, the value of this baseball card should increase exponentially throughout the 21st century!"

The card was unknown to the sports-memorabilia marketplace because the nuns' benefactor had owned it since 1936.

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Polar bear swimming is made harder when try to you dive into the freezing water and find yourself diving onto ice instead.

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