Today's been all about sports ... monitoring the fantasy baseball league and betting on who will win the Masters.

If the tee-vee networks can turn the selection of the next pope into a horse race, why can't we at the Pepper?

After all, NBC's Brian Williams, who might be a betting man, called the selection of the late pope John Paul a "shocker." We've even seen terms such as "front-runner" bandied about. So, let's meet some of the teams ... wait ... cardinals who may be pope:

(insert humming of "Rocky" theme here)

Representing Africa, Rev. Francis Arinze!

Straight outta Sao Paulo is Cláudio Hummes.

The old-school reps are the Italian posse - Angelo Scola and Dionigi Tettamanzi!

And the dark horse is the Austrian (remember, we're Austrians Against Arnold, gotta have an Austrian) Christoph Schonborn.

There's more - set up the brackets anyway you like, and you too can have a Fantasy Convocation League!

Now that we're over the shock, we'll take the team name "The Popemobiles," and we'll go with Cláudio Hummes to take it all. And you?