Still more on ratings --

Jayda Evans reported earlier this month that ratings were up around 40% for both regular season and playoffs.

(What she actually wrote was: "More people are tuned in to the regular-season games aired on ESPN2, and the same 40 percent increase occurred for the first-round playoff matchups this week." Perhaps that was intentionally ambiguous.)

Liz Robbins at the Times (in an article no longer available for free) reported on September 13 that ratings were "the same" for the regular season but up 20% for the playoffs.

The Sac Bee reported last week that ratings were up 20% for the playoffs.

Mel Greenberg reports today that ratings were up 9% for the regular season and 38% for the playoffs.

The truth is out there...