In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday.

• Tim Tebow capped a game-winning drive with a 20-yard touchdown run to give the Broncos a 17-13 win over the Jets. It would be easy to overstate the significance of this event, but I do think it's fair to say that, objectively speaking, I will spend the next few months looking for the face of Tebow in my frosted flakes.

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Baseball owners unanimously approved the sale of the Houston Astros from Drayton McLane to Jim Crane on Thursday, which will lead to the team moving from the NL Central to the AL West for the 2013 season.

The decision will give each league 15 teams, baseball's first realignment since the Milwaukee Brewers switched from the AL to the NL after the 1997 season.

As part of the Astros' agreement to switch leagues, the sale price was cut from $680 million to $615 million, a person at Thursday's meeting told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details weren't announced. - Associated Press, Thursday, November 17, 2011

So we’re just sitting here minding our own business in Astros Fan Park, where we’ve been hanging out contentedly (if not ecstatically) since 1962, and suddenly this armored brigade shows up, turns on a lot of bright lights, and starts screaming at us to get our crap off the plaza.

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In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday.

• Casper Ware scored 28 points to help Long Beach State upset no. 9 Pittsburgh 86-76. To add insult to injury, the Long Beach players returned to Long Beach, while the Pittsburgh players had to stay in Pittsburgh.

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On September 1, the St. Louis Cardinals sat 8.5 games back in the wild-card chase. This morning, they wake up as wild-card champs, bound for Philly and a shot to keep the magic going.

The Cardinals' 8-0 whitewash of Houston gave them 23 wins in their last 32 games of the season. They did it with starting pitching, led by the old warhorse Chris Carpenter. Knock the Astros' anemic lineup all you want, but throwing a two-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts and no walks in a potential elimination game on the final day of the season is impressive stuff. The start capped an amazing closing kick for Carpenter, who went 4-1 with a 1.13 ERA and a 32-to-7 strikeout-to-walk rate in his last five starts of the year.

There was plenty of offense, befitting the highest-scoring team in the National League. Albert Pujols and Lance Berkman chipped in, capping a predictably strong season for Pujols and a big surprise year for Berkman. But the bit players also got involved, with more unlikely Nick Puntoisms and yet another homer for Allen Craig, whom ace Cardinals beat writer Derrick Goold calls the Replacement Killer.

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One hundred sixty one games down, nothing decided. That's where the Red Sox, Rays, Braves, and Cardinals find themselves after an incredible, surreal night of baseball, one that left both wild-card races tied and set up a spectacular finish no one saw coming.

A few thoughts from last night's games:

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In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday.

• Going into the final day of the season, the AL wild-card race is a dead heat. Boston nearly blew an 8-4 lead, but the first two career home runs by rookie catcher Ryan Lavarnway, who only started due to injuries, were the difference in an 8-7 win over the Orioles. Lavarnway is a graduate of Yale, where he majored in philosophy. "Who the **** is this kid?!" asked irate Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, a media darling for his Harvard pedigree. "That's my ******** turf, you *** ******* ****! **** **! *** **** ***, *** ******* *** ** * *****!"

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In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday.

• The emerging month-long nightmare for the Boston Red Sox is closer than ever to being realized. With a 6-3 loss to the lowly Baltimore Orioles, Boston is now tied atop the wild card race with Tampa Bay. Their September record fell to 6-19, they no longer have their best pitcher available, and tonight's starter, Erik Bedard, is just 5-9 on the year. "But at least we've got our dignity," said manager Terry Francona, not realizing that Jonathan Papelbon had drawn the word "FART" on the front of his hat.

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In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday.

• The Yankees set a major league record by hitting three grand slams in a single game on the way to a 22-9 win over Oakland. Not content with a 13-run rout, sadistic manager Joe Girardi also put Jorge Posada at second base for the ninth inning, where the hobbled veteran DH recorded the game-ending put out. According to statisticians, this marks the first time in history where the ultimate goal of a baseball game was to mock the other team and make them cry.

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In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday.
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In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday.

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In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports this past weekend.

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In case you were out living a young person's life of leisure, here are the results and transactions that took place without your approval over the weekend.

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