Just in case there wasn't enough ratings stuff in today's column: Entertainment Weekly recently published the rankings for all prime-time shows during the 2007-08 season, and NBC's Sunday Night Football came in at No. 10, down five places from past season and down 4 percent in average audience. The next sports show -- and, no, I'm not counting Dancing With the Stars (which occupied three spots in the top five) just because it had so many sports figures on it -- was ABC's Saturday Night Football at No. 116.

By the way, NBC's Friday Night Lights, which is sort of about football, finished 107th.

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Friday hoops update: Only six showed today, which is too bad, because so few got to witness Stevie B.'s best shooting performance ever. We could say his jumper was working, except what the diminutive Stevie B. takes is really more of a push shot. With no Scranton Flash in attendance, it fell to B-Hop and Mr. Jones to try keeping Shutterbug in check, no easy task. Dead Man Walking and Maryland Matt staged a spirited match-up, which included many blocked shots by the latter and a few old-school scoops by the former. DMW also inadvertently hit MdM in the mouth, momentarily worrying DMW that he had damaged the straightened teeth he had paid for.