Up to date: Here's the 2012-13 St. Louis Rams cheerleader calendar.

* With their 3-2 victory Tuesday at Kansas City, the White Sox reduced their magic number to 13 (combination of Sox victories and Detroit losses). For those who have difficulty following the concept of the magic number, let’s try an alternate way to view things: If the Sox go 8-7 in their 15 remaining games, the Tigers need to go 11-4 to tie for the American League Central crown.

* The folks at coolstandings.com give the Sox an 83 percent chance of winning the AL Central. If that numbers somehow can bring a little peace of mind to Sox fans (something says it won’t until the Sox surpass a 100 percent chance of winning the division).

* Speaking of magic numbers, the Cincinnati Reds’ is four after defeating the Cubs 3-1 at Wrigley Field. Meaning Reds manager Dusty Baker conceivably could win the National League Central before departing Chicago. The Cubs’ magic number? Thinking it might be about 2014 at the earliest.

* Speaking of magical numbers, the Cubs (58-90) need to go 5-9 or better to avoid losing 100 games. Yeah, that’s simply magical, isn’t it? The NL Central Houston Astros lost their 100th game of the season Tuesday at St. Louis. Sadly for the Cubs, the Astros move to the AL next season.

Media notes:

Susannah Collins is becoming a full-time CSN Chicago presence.

* Comcast SportsNet Chicago announced the hiring of anchor/reporter Susannah Collins as its newest on-air talent member. A native of Downers Grove and a graduate of the University of Illinois, Collins also will host viewer interactive studio segments on postgame shows. “We are very pleased to bring someone of Susannah’s experience and local sports enthusiasm to our network on a full-time basis,” CSN senior news director Charlie Schumacher said . “Providing the very best live, daily local sports news coverage continues to be our focus and Susannah has certainly done an excellent job for us on a free-lance basis over the past several months and will no doubt be a terrific full-time addition to our already solid on-air team.” Collins is a co-host of CSN’s “Gas Money” and has worked for Showtime Sports, NFL Network, NBC and CBS. She also was weekend sports anchor at WCBS-TV in New York.

* In a cause that is near and dear to your humble correspondent’s heart (OK, more precisely gastrointestinal tract) WSCR radio host and WMAQ-TV sportscaster Lawrence Holmes will emcee the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s third annual Celebration of Hope Dinner on Oct. 27 at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago. Tickets ($500 each) to the “A Little Night Music” gala are available through Oct. 12 by clicking here. The fund-raiser will include food, drinks and live music.

* Speaking of good causes, the 25th annual Comcast SportsNet Chicago March of Dimes Sports Awards benefitting the March of Dimes will be Jan. 24. More details when they become available.

* Jaime Edmondson is out with her latest “Play-By-Playmate” column. You can read it by clicking here.

The Bears host the St. Louis Rams on Sunday at Soldier Field. Which means the Rams cheerleaders won’t be performing. In that the Bears have no cheerleaders, the editorial staff at elliottharris.com figured the consolation prize should be some cheerleader video. To view the Rams cheerleaders, you can click here.

And there’s some video of the Rams cheerleaders’ trip to China for the Chinese New Year (this is about as much culture as you are going to get around here).

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