Ellen Gray | David Kelley won't let his lawyer 'girls' grow up
GIRLS CLUB. 9 tonight, Channel 29. WHEN the New York Post reported earlier this month that Saks Fifth Avenue had struck a deal to dress - and promote - the characters on Fox's new David E. Kelley series, "girls club," a lot of things fell into place.
( By Ellen Gray, elgray@phillynews.com, 10/21/2002 01:50 PM EDT)

Tattle | Celebs take stalk of who's after them
THREE CELEBS had close encounters of the stalking kind over the weekend. Here's the 411. In a scene reminiscent of one of his movies, "E.T." director Steven Spielberg, slapped a restraining order on a California woman who has accused him of spying on her meetings with aliens and implanting a mind-control device in her brain, the New York Post and People.com report. Yeah, that's Dr. Spielberg to you, kids!
( By Regina Medinar, medinar@phillynews.com, 10/21/2002 01:49 PM EDT)

Bill Conlin | Away with pessimism
IT WON'T BE so bad, you thought. A wild-card game in San Francisco. Hey, we'll always have Fisherman's Wharf. That was after Simeon Rice splattered Donovan McNabb, the football ejecting like the seed from a squashed grape, Tampa Bay linebacker Derrick Brooks picking it up on the Eagles' 11 and running it in for a 7-3 Bucs lead early on.
( By Bill Conlin, bill1chair@aol.com, 10/21/2002 01:44 PM EDT)

Paul Domowitch | Advice for Couch: Toughen up
YOU'D BE hard-pressed to find an NFL quarterback, past or present, who was treated more harshly by the home crowd than the Eagles' Ron
( By Paul Domowitch, pdomo@aol.com, 10/21/2002 01:40 PM EDT)

Michelle Malkin | REMEMBER THE OTHER BELTWAY SHOOTER?
HE STRUCK during morning rush hour. He used an AK-47 rifle. He killed two people and wounded three outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.
( By Michelle Malkin, malkin@comcast.net, 10/21/2002 01:36 PM EDT)

Rich Hofmann | Defense hammers Bucs
In the NFL, you can't really kill a skeptic until January. You just can't. January, Super Bowl, final reckoning. Everything else is chatter.
( By Rich Hofmann, hofmanr@phillynewscom, 10/21/2002 08:52 AM EDT)

Joe Sixpack | Johnstown voters crying in their beer
It is the morning-after at the Coney Island luncheonette, an institution here since 1916. Just 11 a.m., and the reg'lars are already piling their paper plates with all-beef hot dogs doused with chili.
( By Joe Sixpack, russeld@phillynews.com, 10/21/2002 08:29 AM EDT)

Edward Moran | Courtroom drama
Bob Clarke says that Dave Babych's lawsuit against Comcast-Spectacor and former Flyers doctor Arthur Bartolozzi is something that every team in sports should be watching closely.
( By Edward Moran, morane@phillynews.com, 10/21/2002 08:15 AM EDT)

Mike Kern | College Football Wrap
National: Arizona State sophomore Andrew Walter threw for a school-record 536 yards and four touchdowns. The Sun Devils rallied from a 21-point deficit to beat previously unbeaten Oregon, 45-42.
( By Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com, 10/21/2002 08:11 AM EDT)