Procrastinate, according to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, is "to put off intentionally and habitually the doing of something that should be done."

PHILADELPHIA - One guy doesn't lose a series, and one guy doesn't win one, either. But one guy can certainly set a tone.

And for all of the differences between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers that were on display this week -- tough-mindedness, a relentless offensive approach, and the experience of being winners -- one in particular stood out.

In film after film in the 1930s, from "Frankenstein" to "The Mummy" to "The Ghoul" and on and on, actor Boris Karloff functioned as a sort of wanderer -- an explorer -- in the shadow land between life and death.

If the movies he inhabited sometimes were considered juvenile, the subject matter that motivated them couldn't have been more adult, more profound.

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Engine: 3.5-liter V6, 280 horsepower.

Transmission: Five-speed automatic with manual-shift mode.

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EPA passenger/trunk volume: 95/13 cubic feet.

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Of the gazillion thoughts we have a day, research has determined that 80 percent of them are negative. Science also tells us that we remember the negative because doing so is hardwired into our DNA. We had to remember where the tar pits were, so we wouldn't fall into them. Times are different, and our thinking process has to evolve as well.

Whether playing it back over a single weekend or an entire season, deja vu rules college football like the house rules Vegas.

Flash back to Week 8, 2007, when some real unusual suspects occupied lofty spots in the Top 10 of that season's first BCS standings: South Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky and Arizona State, at Nos. 2, 6, 7 and 8 respectively.