Starting next season, several Major League Baseball teams will sell caskets marked with their team colors and insignia.
Among the early buyers: The Kansas City Royals, who will use the caskets to house their playoff hopes once the season is a month old.

Almost half of baseball fans want Barry Bonds to fall short of Hank Aaron's home run record, according to an Associated Press-America Online poll released last week.
Worse for Bonds, almost 98 percent of fans hope he doesn't break Placido Polanco's record for biggest head in the league.

In other baseball news, MLB players and owners reportedly have reached a tentative agreement for a new labor contract.
The deal became possible after the two sides resolved their big sticking point - what percent of ticket revenue should be spent on Jim Leyland's Marlboros.

Boston Celtics guard Sebastian Telfair denied having a role in the shooting of rapper Fabolous outside a Manhattan nightclub last week.
Telfair pointed out that he's made less than 40 percent of his shots in two NBA seasons, so why would he start connecting now?

The MSU football team erased a 35-point deficit in Saturday's 41-38 win against Northwestern.
The Elias Sports Bureau said it was the biggest comeback since Neil Patrick Harris' acting career.

South Korea's Hee-Won Han took first place at the Honda LPGA Thailand on Sunday.
To recap: Hee-Won, she won.