Today we celebrate or mourn (take your pick) the discovery of America in 1492, when average male height was about 5'3". No wonder little guys ruled the weekend in sports.

At the Big Ed in Anaheim, slight second baseman Adam Kennedy (bigger than Eckstein, sure, but at 6'1", 192, he's no juiced-up android) became only the fifth player ever to hit three homers in a playoff game, sending the Angels to the Series.

	You're a big guy in our book, Olindo.

The Broncos and Dolphins battered each other on Sunday night, only to have two willowy kickers -- 5'11" Jason Elam and 5'10" Olindo Mare -- trade Mile Hightened kicks in the end. A similar situation transpired in the Sunshine State on Saturday, when Florida State's 5'10" Xavier Beitia kicked away a W by missing a 42-yarder against Miami's other pro team.

Let's see ... 42 times 8 plus 20 makes 356 -- the yardage gained by tiny former beer man Michael Lewis (5'8", 165) in the Saints' romp over ... hmmm ... the Redskins! (Columbus would be proud.)

Small QBs reigned, too. A 215-pound Rams third-stringer named Marc Bulger, Sunday's fourth-lightest starting quarterback, smote the mighty Silver and Black. Then Drew Brees, at 6'0" the shortest of starting signal-callers, tossed a last-second TD to keep the Bolts atop the AFC West.

On ice, Chicago's Jocelyn Thibault blanked the previously potent Buffalo offense, despite tipping the scales at a mere soixante-dix-sept kilograms. That's roughly the same weight as Phil Tataurangi, all 5'10", 175 pounds of him, who pocketed $900,000 in Lost Wages, Nev., with a final-round 62 for his first PGA tour win.

We'd like to think it was his short game.