With the unofficial decade coming to an end, a close look should be given to the Dodgers’ work. After all, it’s not every day that ownership changes, a team that hadn’t won a playoff series in 20 years sweeps the NLDS in consecutive years, and the team achieves a staggering amount of attention, from injuries to trades to steroids to divorce.

If this game is the first of a back-to-back, I’d hate to see what will happen tomorrow. The suddenly erratic Lakers (24-6) drops their second of their last three games to the smaller Phoenix Suns (20-12) 118-103 in a game that eerily resembles their performance in another road loss against the Jazz.