Below The Beltway

Ohio State’s Beanie Wells was injured during last weeks season opener against Youngstown State, and it looks like he’ll be missing Saturday’s game against Ohio University:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said tailback Chris ”Beanie” Wells will not play when the third-ranked Buckeyes take on Ohio on Saturday.
Wells injured his right foot [...]

It happened in Tampa Bay last night when umpires reviewed an Alex Rodriguez home run:
ST. PETERSBURG — Tropicana Field hosted history on Wednesday night, when instant replay was used for the first time in Major League history.
Alex Rodriguez hit a 2-2 pitch from Rays closer Troy Percival high over the foul pole in left in [...]

I’ve noted this summer that the Washington Nationals have the lowest television and radio ratings of any team in Major League Baseball, and some have attributed that to the Nationals’ admittedly abysmal record this season.
But, apparently, there’s more to it than just a teams record, because the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, this season’s surprise story [...]

Not an auspicious beginning for the Scarlet Knights:
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — The area beyond one end zone at Rutgers Stadium has been cleared, with piles of dirt shoved to the side by a fleet of stout yellow bulldozers. Construction of a 14,000-seat addition to the stadium is well under way.
It appears, however, that after Rutgers’s season-opening [...]

The result wasn’t really a surprise, but the Buckeyes first win of the season may have come at a heavy price:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -It was as if a stadium full of more than 105,000 people was suddenly empty.
An eerie silence descended on Ohio Stadium when Ohio State’s Heisman Trophy prospect Chris ”Beanie” Wells went down [...]

Ohio State and Jim Tressel have agreed to contract revisions that will keep him in Columbus until at least 2013 and make him the highest paid coach in the Big Ten:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State says Jim Tressel has agreed to contract revisions that will make him the highest-paid football coach in the Big [...]

For each of the past two years, the Ohio State Buckeyes have made it to the BCS Championship Game, only to come up short; against Florida in 2007, and against Louisiana State in 2008.
Despite those loses, the Buckeyes are ranked yet again at or near the top of the pre-season polls and, this year, Jim [...]

The Scarlet Knights begin another season on Monday, and how it goes depends mostly on a guy named Mike Teel:
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — All Mike Teel really needed was a couple of weeks off. That would have been enough to give him time to recover from a broken right hand that he said was so swollen [...]

As I noted on Tuesday, this week’s Yankees-Red Sox series would in all likelihood determine whether or not the New York Yankees would make the post-season again this year. So far, it’s looking like the answer is no.
First, the Yankees lost 7-3 on Tuesday night after an October-like performance from Alex Rodriguez:
It is late August, [...]

Starting tonight, the Yankees face a series with the Red Sox that will determine if they make the post-season this year:
The Yankees cannot be eliminated from the postseason this week no matter what happens. But the three-game series that starts against the Boston Red Sox tonight at Yankee Stadium will determine whether the games that [...]