After leading for the entire fourth quarter, Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05 and the Buffalo Bills fell Sunday to the Tennessee Titans when Matt Hasselbeck and Nate Washington connected on a 15-yard strike on fourth down with just over a minute to go.

On the ensuing drive, the Amish Rifle went two for four but was unable to connect with Steve Johnson on fourth down on a day when he threw for 225 yards and three more touchdowns (his twelve TDs on the season are tied for fifth in the NFL).

The loss dropped the Bills a game back of the Patriots and with the next two games on the road in Houston and Foxborough, Buffalo’s road will only get tougher.

In his first couple preseason games as a Rocket, Jeremy Lin ’10 has struggled from the field, shooting the ball at a clip of 25 percent and averaging a shade under six points per game. But the former Harvard co-captain is rehabbing from a knee injury that may be limiting his explosiveness and is adjusting to playing with a number of NBA newcomers. Lin has also made adjustments off the court, recently starring in his first commercial with Volvo.

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Outside dorms, leaves are turning from green to red and Harvard students are turning from partiers to Lamonsters, which can mean only two things. One, midterms are here and campus-wide coffee sales are booming. Two, and more importantly, it is time for October baseball and the Fall Classic. For those Harvard students who have the time to delay hitting the books and want to hit the couch instead, here’s a Harvard-centric viewing guide for the Major League Baseball playoffs:

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In a new weekly feature, The Crimson will be tracking the successes (and potential failures) of some of Harvard’s most successful graduates not to use their Harvard degrees. While a tour through professional sports is not exactly a who’s who of Harvard alumni, a few athletes have taken their game to the next level. From Jeremy Lin to Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Crimson maintains a presence outside of the labs and law offices of the world.

Well, it’s that time of year again. School is back in session, fall is in the air, Harvard’s fall sports teams are kicking off and beginning Ivy League play, and the handful of Crimson alumni making it in the big leagues are getting busy.

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Andrew Ferreira, who is currently playing in the Minnesota Twins organization after being drafted this summer, had more on his plate last season than just being a sophomore captain of the Harvard baseball team.

After missing a season with an arm injury, the pitcher bounced back well, beginning his year as the designated hitter for the Crimson. The human evolutionary biology concentrator had three strikeouts in Harvard’s victory over Yale this past spring, but the real highlight of Ferreira’s 2012 season has got to be his famous starring role in a music video. If anything could launch a career, “Call Me Maybe” is it. Honestly, who can forget those dance moves?

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Outside of the NHL and a few notable exceptions in the other major sports, Harvard fans don’t often get to see their school’s alumni compete in professional uniforms. This is especially true when it comes to Major League Baseball, where Harvard is perhaps better known for producing front office talent—like New York Mets VP of Player Development and Scouting Paul DePodesta ’95 or Cleveland Indians Director of Baseball Operations David Stearns ’07—than actual players. Indians pitcher Frank Herrmann ’06 is the Crimson’s lone regular presence on major league rosters.

So, unless you’re a Boston native (well at this point, even if you are a Boston native), it might seem difficult to get excited for tonight’s edition of the storied Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, a September matchup that would have generated significant buzz in Boston in years past. But while the Yankees are searching for a post-season berth, those hopes were dashed long ago for a Sox team that has been unloading talent and looking to rebuild.

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