Okay, so you’re not Dr. Emmett Brown. But imagine, for a moment, cruising in Doc’s DeLorean and traveling back in time – specifically, to Oct. 3, when the baseball playoffs got underway.
And imagine also if you told everyone that the St. Louis Cardinals – the 83-win, backed-into-the-playoffs, nearly-threw-the-whole-thing-away-in-the-last-two-weeks Cardinals – would win the World Series?
The next sound you would have heard, even in loyal burgh like St. Louis, would be a roar of laughter similar to what is emanating from the theaters these days anywhere the “Borat” movie is showing.
Anyone else in the field had an argument. The Yankees were all but handed the crown. Oakland and (especially) Minnesota had their defenders. Some sensed the destiny in Detroit...

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You hear some laments about college basketball tipping off earlier than in years past – some teams got going on Nov...

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Here in Upstate New York, we’re quite familiar with the tales of sports teams not expected to find their way to the top, but doing so anyway.
That U.S. hockey team in 1980 at Lake Placid. Or the Buffalo Bills making that playoff comeback against Houston. Or Syracuse basketball in 2003 riding the hot hands of a couple of freshmen to the NCAA crown.
Now, in the form of the 2006 state Class AA football champion Auburn Maroons, we have found an equivalent in the high school ranks, a 37-day odyssey that just about trumps anything a writer of fiction could come up with.
Go back to the afternoon of Oct. 19...

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