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•Otherwise, your best choices lie among the reruns, starting with an early-season episode of House (Fox, 8 ET/PT) that follows a woman who collapses during a one-night-stand with 13.

Critic's Corner Tuesday 2009

There have already been some promising early-season performances from young athletes seemingly inspired by the prospect of a home Olympics.

Charles van Commennee still focused on eight Olympic track medals 2012

Zuma Press New York Giants' Victor Cruz The 18th-ranked Giants are perhaps the biggest outlier in the Massey-Peabody system, as their 5-2 record was built on a weak early-season schedule.

NFL Week 9: The Massey-Peabody Power Rankings 2011

And DeBoer, who never made the playoffs during his three seasons as the Florida Panthers' head coach, is succeeding Jacques Lemaire, whose return last season jolted the team out of an early-season free-fall and whose number is always on speed dial for Lamoriello.

Let's Give This Another Try Mike Sielski 2011

MILD FREAKOUT: The Jets are below .500, yes, but if you did that ritual at the beginning of the year where you take the schedule and mentally pencil in wins and losses—only one of these three early-season losses was unexpected: the bummer defeat to the Raiders in Oakland Sept. 25.

Figure Out Your Jets Freakout Factor! Jason Gay 2011

Tottenham's early-season surge has been achieved by adhering to what is an increasingly old-fashioned philosophy: the notion that you don't mess with a winning team.

Suddenly It's Red-Hot Spurs Jonathan Clegg 2011

Getty Images Marian Gaborik Marian Gaborik has keyed the Rangers' early-season success and is on pace to more than double the most goals scored by any Blueshirt last season.

Gaborik Is Firing Everything at Net—And It's Working 2011

There's no such thing as a crisis after three games of a 66-game season, but this is the closest thing to early-season despair a team can get.

Knicks Flawed in Loss to Lakers Kevin Clark 2011

The 6-10 Knicks versus the 3-14 Bobcats—an early-season battle for lottery ping-pong balls!

This Game Won't Be Super Bowl XLII, Part II Jason Gay 2012

Amar'e Stoudemire led an early-season revival and Carmelo Anthony locked himself in the bedroom in Denver until the Nuggets dealt him to New York.

This Isn't How It Was Supposed to End Jason Gay 2011