Just a few hours after Joe Girardi steered the Yankees to a World Series victory last night, he helped rescue a woman who'd smashed her car on the Hutchinson River Parkway. [NYDN]

Women across America continue to wear "Spanx" and "Spanx"-like undergarments despite the fact that "Spanx" are clearly evil, most especially for the women wearing them, and whoever may be around when it's time for them to shed their "Spanx."

If this pans out, it's a huge showbiz announcement. Nikki Finke has posted that Oprah Winfrey has decided to give up her CBS-syndicated show and move her eponymous daytime chat show to her own cable network.

Mario Lopez, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Fergie, Oh My! Can't you just feel the mortification oozing from your computer screen?

There's a little good news today if you happen to be jobless. The House voted to give an additional 20 weeks of unemployment benefits to people who are out of work, and the bill is now headed to the White House for President Obama's signature. [NYT]

A bunch of angry white people are yelling at members of Congress right now — both for and against healthcare reform. It's a good thing the Capitol complex has tunnels underneath it so members can avoid these filthy common people.

As an NBC chairman, Ben Silverman once mingled with true media titans. But now the fallen mogul rolls with a different crowd; we hear he's besties with CollegeHumor editor-in-chief Ricky Van Veen. Now they might be in business together.

In today's upbeat Retro Jam we visit the winter of 1990. We dare you to keep yourself from dancing along.

Why is it we don't have weather forecasters like this here in New York? Here's hoping some smart station manager at Channel 2, 4, 5, or 7 takes note of Mark Thompson's unique talents and gives him an opportunity to transport his act from LA to NYC. [YouTube via BB]

PR is a discipline that demands the delicate touch of a surgeon and the sober judgment of a sober judge. You can't just wildly issue press releases like, "Hey, We Got a Lady With Two Vaginas Here!" Or can you?

The greatest battle may perhaps be a decade fighting itself mercilessly to pure victory, but that holding true, Bill Cosby and Ted Danson each made a statement with woolen wonders of self expression in an epic, ultimate showdown forever unmatched.

Sushi restaurant ads target medical marijuana users. When you'll eat anything, why not something expensive?

Isaac Mizrahi will making his debut on QVC next month where he'll be selling everything from t-shirts to berets to... tartan-decorated cheesecakes? Oh, yes, a version of the cake from Junior's in Brooklyn and featuring a "Mizrahi-mandated chocolate cookie crust," will be on sale, too. [WWD]

Meet Mike, who wants you to hit the fast forward button if you're watching the video while smoking, he doesn't want to kiss your smelly mouth. Does anyone even smoke anymore?

For our next installment of the Spitzer Files—our collection of e-mails between flacks and reporters during Eliot Spitzer's downfall—we bring you the tale of the Today producer who offered to help a flack find a job at NBC.

Would you call yourself a fan talking puppets? Has there been an emptiness inside you since 90s sitcom "Step By Step" was off the air? Congrats! Patrick Duffy & the Crab web show is for you.

Rejoice, all ye long-term unemployed former holders of now-nonexistent jobs: Your Congresspersons are granting you 20 more weeks of unemployment benefits. You'll need them!

Number of trading days in last two quarters on which Goldman Sachs lost money: 3

[Jared Kushner, in the stands with his wife Ivanka Trump, gets his bookie on the phone to try to put money on the Yankees half way through last night's final World Series game. Image via Getty]

Demonstrably hardcore Gawker alum Sheila McClear has sold her book about life in the bygone Times Square peep shows, Last of the Live Nude Girls, to Soft Skull Press. Everyone is required to buy two copies. [Galleycat] UPDATE: