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Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker says third baseman Scott Rolen will be activated off the 15-day disabled list and start Sunday against Pittsburgh.

They are the Jets' Odd Couple, the two middle men in Rex Ryan's defensive front. Bart Scott is a trash-talker with a mouth like Google - fast and always working. David Harris is reticent, a man of few words. He's a five-second sound bite; Scott is a filibuster.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.(AP) Scott Kazmir picked a great time for his best start of the season.

When Brett Favre called the Jets on Feb. 11 to tell them he was retiring, he actually made what could have been a very stressful and delicate situation simple for them. The best thing for the organization was to start over with a new and younger QB.

Now you know why Scott Pioli decided Matt Cassel was worth a second-round draft choice and $63 million of Hunt money. He can make the best out of a horrible situation and look pretty calm doing it, as if it was business as usual. You saw it Friday night against the Minnesota Vikings.

Brett Favre is back — again? After saying he wouldn't, Favre unretired for a second time and signed a two-year contract with the Minnesota Vikings this week. He'll reportedly play Sunday. Host Scott Simon talks to ESPN.com's Howard Bryant about the week in sports, including Favre's nonretirement and the world track championships in Berlin.

More photos » by Philip Scott Andrews - AP You deserved better. Browse more photos » We should be celebrating a 1-0 Cubs win this morning and picking up a game on the Cardinals. Instead, because Aramis Ramirez booted a ball with two out in the second inning and Randy Wells followed it with a fat first-pitch fastball (for which he got roundly criticized, and rightly so, by Bob Brenly) to a good-hitting pitcher, Randy Wolf, the Cubs lost 2-1 to the Dodgers and remain seven games out of first place. Here, I'll give you one piece of good news: the Giants' win over Colorado kept the Cubs six games behind the wild-card leading Rockies. Randy Wells pitched yet another outstanding game, and because he threw 6.2 innings, finally reached the list of qualified leaders for the ERA lead -- to do so you have to have pitched one inning per game your team has played. The Cubs have played 120 games, Wells now has 120.1 innings, and his 2.84 ERA ranks seventh in the National League, tw

In a battle between wild-card contenders, Cypress Falls product Scott Kazmir took a shutout into the eighth inning to win his fourth consecutive start at home as the Rays beat the visiting Rangers. With the win, Tampa Bay gained a game on the Rangers and wild-card leading Red Sox. FRIDAY'S STARS

Scott Kazmir picked a great time for his best start of the season. Kazmir took a shutout into the eighth inning, and Ben Zobrist and Carlos Pena homered on consecutive pitches as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Texas Rangers 5-3 on Friday night. 'That's as good as he's been all year in my mind,' Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. 'It was really fun to watch. I was really impressed.' Kazmir (8-7) didn't allow a run until Taylor Teagarden opened the eighth with a homer.

THE two promotion favourites face each other at Dens Park this afternoon as Inverness Caley Thistle travel south to play Dundee. Jocky Scott's expensively assembled squad