Today's roundup involves Jeopardy!

• The Indians dropped their third in a row yesterday, as the New York Stinking Yankees came from behind to beat them 3-2, behind a two-run homer by Curtis Granderson off probable soon-to-be-former Indian Jake Westbrook in the eighth. Westbrook pitched pretty well, giving up three runs in eight innings on four hits and two walks against five strikeouts, while pitching to a very powerful Yankee lineup. But he gave up two home runs, and that was his undoing.

• Shin-Soo Choo again showed why he's the best player on the Tribe. Not only did he hit an RBI double that temporarily put the Indians ahead 2-1, he threw out Granderson trying to stretch a single into a double. Replays showed Granderson should have been called safe, but still, it was a heck of a play by Choo, who fielded it off the wall and gunned it to second in one motion.

• The game drew 27,224 fans, which is the Indians' third-highest home attendance of the season. (The top two were the home opener and Nationals rookie Stephen Strasburg's second major league start.) That's due to two factors: One, the Yankees always draw well in Cleveland; and two, Alex Rodriguez is one home run away from his 600th. With Mr. Rod failing to go deep last night, we can expect another large crowd tonight. Too bad for the Indians' bottom line the Yankees are only in town for four games; the Tribe remains 30th out of 30 teams in home attendance.

• Westbrook's contract is up at the end of the season, and while he probably won't be all that expensive next year, given his injury history, it makes sense for the Tribe to flip him for prospects because they're not playing for anything this year. The trade deadline is this Saturday, so this might well have been his last start as an Indian. On the other hand, Westbrook seems like the kind of guy who might help a contender for the rest of the year and then come back to Cleveland. Who knows.

• Jhonny Peralta is also in the last year of his contract, and I don't see any reason not to get prospects for him too. No doubt Mark Shapiro will see what he can get for a lot of players, but off the top of my head, those two guys are the ones who seem most likely to go. Peralta's been kind of a disappointment the last couple of years, both with the bat and the glove, but he could help a contender who's got a hole in the infield, such as Colorado.

• The Cavaliers made a trade yesterday, sending Delonte West and Sebastian Telfair to the Timberwolves for guard Ramon Sessions, center Ryan Hollins and a second-round draft pick. West has been a starter before, and has done some nice things on the court, but he was highly inconsistent this past year — possibly due to his legal troubles — and I'm not very sorry to see him go. Telfair is just a throw-in; he never contributed to the Cavs in any meaningful way. The 24-year-old Sessions only averaged 8.2 points and 2.1 assists last year for the Wolves, but that's in just 21.1 minutes a game, and he had 20 points and 24 assists in one game. He's got an upside. Hollins, 25, will probably never be more than a backup center, which is fine. We'll need one. Anderson Varejao will probably be the starter, with Z and Shaq both gone.

• OK, a game show is not a sport, but this too cool not to mention: The "Jeopardy!" Clue Crew spent some time at the Cleveland Clinic at November, filming an entire category's worth of clues for the show. The Cleveland Clinic category will come up Friday. I DVR "Jeopardy!" and look forward to getting all the questions correct.

Bill Needle!

Longtime Cleveland sportscaster Bill Needle appeared on "Jeopardy!" Monday, and he did OK, even though he wound up finishing with no money. Needle, who is now the radio play-by-play voice of the Kent State Golden Flashes football and basketball teams, previously hosted a sports talk show on WKNR radio in Cleveland, and has also done pre-game work for FSN Ohio before Cavaliers and Indians games.

I am a regular Jeopardy watcher, though I don't often watch it the day it was broadcast. I saw Monday's show today, Wednesday, thanks to the miracle of digital video recording. But when the announcer introduced "A play-by-play announcer from Chagrin Falls, Ohio," I thought, hey, there's a chance I'll know who it is. And there he was! Bill Needle! In all the years I've watched Jeopardy, this is the first time, outside of celebrity week, that I've had prior knowledge of one of the contestants.

During the "meet the contestants" portion of the program, Alex asked Bill, "In your best play-by-play-announcer voice, sum up the first part of the game for the audience." Bill deepened his voice a bit, smiled and said, "Well, Alex I think on the Double Jeopardy, I will do better than I might have done on Single Jeopardy." That turned out not to be the case, but Bill had $9,200 going into Final Jeopardy. Unfortunately, the defending champion, a very bright stay-at-home mom from Dana Point, Calif., named Aileen Hawkins, had an insurmountable lead. Bill bet it all and got it wrong.

For those who may wonder, the category was biblical places, and the clue was: In "Return of the Jedi," a planet shares its name with this home of a woman who summons a spirit for Saul.

I had no idea, even though that's the one Star Wars movie I saw when I was old enough to remember some of it. Bill apparently had no idea either, guessing Esther. The other challenger, a legal writer from Arizona named Beth Holliday, guessed Tattooine. Aileen's answer: What is Endor? And she was right. She's a tough champion.

Bill appeared cheerful enough at the end, as he went to shake Aileen's hand, and later, chatting with Alex. I'm sure he had a good time.