Coach Whiz said he shouldn't have played Penicheiro last game. (No kidding.)

Whalen, who swelled up on the cross-country flight, will play. "It's back to better than it was before the flight," she said. "It's going to be a little sore, a little tender, but I should be good to go [today]."

The rest of the Sun try to pump the back ups' confidence. “Jen and Jamie stepped up huge,” Katie Douglas said. “Hopefully they both have confidence (in themselves), confidence in one another."

DiMauro giggles about Katie's Game Two mic-gaffe: “Did one of y'all just fart?” But apparently the Day can't print "fart."

Yo Griffith has a shiner from one of Dydek's famous elbows. "This series is a knock-down, drag-out battle," she said. "It's a heavyweight fight, and we're not backing down."

Ailene Voison tries to fire up the fans. Yesterday, Bee columnist Marcos Breton took the mantle of anti-PC warrior and boldly proclaimed that the W gets more coverage than it deserves. And yet Arco will be near a sell-out today.