Welcome to Monday’s Morning Mashup, where we’ll get you caught up on what’s going on in the sports world and beyond.

FOOTBALL: The Patriots held off the Dolphins, 27-17. Chris Price has 10 Things We Learned about the win. Kirk Minihane looks at the big picture. Check out the It Is What It Is blog for audio from the Patriots locker room plus more from the game.

The Colts edged the Texans to stay unbeaten as they await the Patriots Sunday. The Saints also are still perfect after rallying to beat the Panthers. The Giants lost their fourth straight, a heartbreaker in San Diego. Rookie quarterback Josh Freeman led the Buccaneers to their first win, over the Packers.

In the Bengals’ win over the Ravens, Chad Ochocinco thought it would be funny to pretend to bribe an official by pulling out a dollar bill and offering it to one of the referees.

D.J. Bean has the Week 9 fantasy football wrap-up.

TCU moved into fourth place in the BCS standings and the AP Top 25.

BASEBALL: Alex Speier looks at the Red Sox’ chances of landing Padres slugger Adrian Gonzalez. The Sox declined the option on shortstop Alex Gonzalez, making him a free agent.

BASKETBALL: The Celtics bounced back from their first loss of the season by beating New Jersey Saturday night. Paul Flannery has Three Things We Learned.

Allen Iverson is taking some time away from the Grizzlies. Spurs guard Tony Parker sprained his ankle and could miss a week.

Isiah Thomas’ Florida International squad opens the season tonight vs. defending national champion North Carolina. Boston College won its exhibition vs. St. Michael’s.

HOCKEY: Joe Haggerty has some thoughts from the Bruins’ impressive win over the Sabres Saturday night.

Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward could miss a month after having his leg cut by a skate.

The Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are tonight, with former Boston College star Brian Leetch among the inductees.

SOCCER: The Revolution are out of the MLS playoffs.

ON THIS DAY TRIVIA: On Nov. 9, 2002, which Celtic tied his own team record with nine 3-pointers in a game at Minnesota?

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It’s always nice for a quarterback when you see the back of 81 sprinting down the field once he gets by them. There are not too many guys that can catch him.” — Tom Brady, on his touchdown pass to Randy Moss in the Patriots’ victory yesterday over the Dolphins

STAT OF THE DAY: 27 — Career 300-yard passing games for Tom Brady, setting a team record (passing Drew Bledsoe)

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED TRANSCRIPT OF THE DAY: Junior Seau was on The Big Show Friday and talked about Sunday’s game against Miami. He was on a cell phone and the reception wasn’t sharp. That’s a bad combination for the automatically generated transcript, which apparently decided Seau’s answer should be shortened quite a bit.

When asked about defending the Wildcat, Seau said, according to the automatically generated transcript:

“It, it, it, it. Use yeah oh on the line. With Erica. Much. How is that you know when you’re. Out. In the — There on ground. And and in pain and now. It.”

What he actually said: “It’s only complicated if you obviously overrun the play. But if you have everyone with gap control and be disciplined with their gap control. you pretty much have it locked down. It’s just that, when you have a rare talent like Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams in the backfield, and without a quarterback back there, Ronnie Brown makes a lot of great decisions. To be back there and disrupt his angles and his downhill running is going to be a big key.”

‘NET RESULTS: Nope, we’re not linking to that New Mexico women’s soccer player beating up on BYU players. You’ve seen that already, we’re sure. Instead, here’s Andre Iguodala beating up on the rim with a monster dunk Friday night against the Nets.

Fine, here’s the New Mexico player so you can watch it again. Sicko.

TRIVIA ANSWER: Antoine Walker

SOOTHING SOUNDS: Peter, Paul and Mary singer Mary Travers, who died on Sept. 16 of leukemia, would have been 73 today.

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