Don't forget -- our underdog pro football pool starts this week, with the games that will be played this weekend. Readers are invited to try to pick winning NFL underdogs for weekly points, with the player who has the most points at season's end designating the lion's share of the entry fees ($20 a player, $280 so far) to charity. Second and third place will also get to steer much smaller amounts to their own favorite charities. All proceeds will be donated to nonprofits.

This week's lines will be posted tomorrow evening, or Wednesday morning at the latest.

Details about our pool are here. There's still time to enter. If you play, you'll never watch the pro gridiron game the same way again, and you'll be helping a good cause.

As for my own performance picking underdogs this past weekend? Forget it. My team made it to overtime, but there it fell. It's a good thing I'm running a charity pool here -- my chances of winning anything in the other pool have dropped to virtually naught with a 0-6 start.