This Evening: Jim Leyland Did Not Have A Hard-On, But...  Your
p.m. roundup for Oct. 10, the day we got bored and chopped at a
few trees because it sure beats drinkin'. Photo via Mocksession.
Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.   What we're
watching (all times EDT, unless noted): Versus has Lightning-
Capitals in an NHL game that began at 7. TBS has Game 2 of the
NLCS between the Cardinals and Brewers at 8. And ESPN has Bears-
Lions on Monday Night Football at 8:30.  Read Me  The real-life
inspiration for Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot: "In the
book, the two are rivals, and while Eugenides insists the
resemblance to Wallace is unintentional, The Marriage Plot is
unmistakably a portrait of the author's youth and of the
loyalties and rivalries that so often arise among ambitious
young friends. (Much of the early chatter surrounding the novel
has been a who's-who inside-baseball guessing game.) At once a
love story, a campus novel, and a bildungsroman, The Marriage
Plot is stocked with litera