Batting Around is BC Sports' look back at the week's happenings in the world o' sports, presented in a lineup card format for some undisclosed reason.

The Lineup Card

1. RB Darren McFadden
2. K Jeff Reed
3. CF Torii Hunter
4. PG LeBron James
5. Pete Sampras (ret.)
6. LG Kalani Heppe
7. RB Priest Holmes
8. G Chris Osgood
9. SP Joe Kennedy (RIP)
Coach: Houston Nutt

1. RB Darren McFadden — I'd been hoping, praying, reaching for someone not named Tim Tebow I can get behind for the Heisman Trophy. (To those who missed last week: I'm not sure why I can't support Tebow. He's just a football player, and I never met him.) But perhaps McFadden, who literally willed his unranked Arkansas Razorbacks to a triple-overtime upset at top-ranked LSU, put himself back in the race.

He leads all non-Conference USA running backs with 1,725 yards. His sum of 15 TDs isn't eye-popping but he has manned the Arkansas offense from the old-style "single-wing" formation, and has thrown 6-for-11 for 123 yards and four touchdowns. No picks, either.

Combining all those touchdowns (and the one he caught) he only had 20, which is less than Tebow has just running the ball. But what's rarer these days? A quarterback who can run, or a running back who can pass?

Maybe it's about innovation. If an offensive lineman can ever kick 40-yard field goals, I'd probably give him my Heisman vote, which is — sadly — nonexistent.

2. K Jeff Reed — Initially there was no reason to watch a Pittsburgh Steelers-Miami Dolphins game on Monday Night Football, unless winless Miami was somehow making a game of it, which was highly doubtful.

And that's when the rain turned an ordinary football field into tabula rasa, a 100-yard field bereft of paint, with a texture consistent to that of a foam mattress. Perhaps Pittsburgh was experimenting with TempurTurf©, the field that conforms to a football player's body as he falls to the ground.

Probably the only guy who saw playing time and didn't fall down was Reed, the Steelers kicker. He overcame a poorly, poorly shanked field goal attempt by kicking a 24-yard field-goal, which even I didn't think he'd make. Those three points were the only ones score the entire game, and they came in the 60th and final minute. Not since the 40s had an NFL game gone scoreless well into the fourth quarter, let alone the final minute.