School daze … Antonio Brown, cut by three teams in five months, needed help making the cut Monday night. The embattled receiver is taking courses at Central Michigan and took to Twitter for a little help. “My English paper do by tonight 12am need a prof reader make sure As and Bs #Eng303.” Brown, believing he was treated unfairly by the NFL, is also taking a course in “racism and inequality.” Get this, the rejuvenated All-Pro, who met Britney Taylor at CMU during Bible study, is feeling his college oats again and is taking a course in religion as well. … This just in: Bill Cosby is returning to Temple to take pharmaceutical chemistry.

Evenly matched AL wild-card game. The A’s were one game better than the Rays and Wednesday’s starting pitchers make it more difficult to separate the squads. Rays’ Charlie Morton, 16-6, owned the Athletics lineup this year allowing one run over 13 ¹/₃ innings. The A’s Sean Manaea is 4-0 with a 1.21 ERA since returning from shoulder surgery in September. Oakland went 52-29 at home. We will back the A’s and the “Manaealator” for 10 units.

Wow! The Nats, down 3-0, came back to beat the Brewers 4-3. Max Scherzer gave up a pair of homers, but Trea Turner hit a solo shot before Juan Soto’s bases-clearing single (and an error) put the Nats in the NLDS. Victory takes us to -631 rickyvaughns.