No such conference playoff faces the Pac-10, where five teams have one defeat.
In the W.N.B.A., the Liberty have to clinch the conference title, win the playoffs, face down mighty Los Angeles or Houston.
When the Jets (9-6), fightong to make the playoffs, face the Ravens (11-4) in Baltimore Sunday in their regular-season windup, Gordon will replace Cox.
But Scioscia preferred to have the left-hander Darren Oliver, who had not allowed a run in six innings of relief in the playoffs, face the switch-hitting Mark Teixeira.
You could entertain yourself for a few days just contemplating the eerie similarities between the Heat and the Blackhawks — both had 16-7 records in the playoffs, faced three elimination games, staged stunning comebacks in Game 6 of the finals — just to stretch this out a little more.
In a rematch of the previous year's opening round, the Penguins began the 2008 playoffs facing the Ottawa Senators, whom they quickly swept in four games.
The winner in the playoffs faces the games final boss, Petey, in a series for the Cup.
The playoff will face three obstacles that it didn't have last year.
His Philadelphia Phillies were down in a playoff series, facing elimination, striving for another tomorrow.
If the Bengals make the playoffs and face the Texans in the first round, the game will be reclassified a non-B.C.S. bowl and played on the Big Ten Network.
