The Phillies' thrashing of L.A. in a five-game National League Championship Series offers enough proof that they're better equipped to give the Yankees a tough run than the Dodgers would have been.
The NFL is four years away from its 50th Super Bowl, which means it is already trying to plan around a peculiar self-inflicted marketing nuisance: How can the world's most powerful sports league get around putting a big, fat "L" on hundreds of thousands of souvenir T-shirts?