Football

Today is a THEME DAY. Theme days can be overt, or they can be subtle and connected, in such a way that figuring out the theme may help you answer the questions.

For today's theme, each question should be answered by one word and one word only, and it might not be the name of the person clued. All answers are two syllables...a coincidence that happens periodically.

Question 10: Head coach of the FBS team that went from unranked in the 2023 preseason AP poll to 22nd in Week 2, to 18th in Week 3, to 19th in Week 4, to also receiving votes in Week 5, to unranked in Week 6. (Your answer should be a single two-syllable word.)

Neon

Basketball

An event-record 12.6 million people tuned in to watch a star-studded 2023 NCAA Championship between what two teams?

LSU, Iowa

Baseball

A 1999 Adidas ad featured these two members of the Yankees rotation who also had Mets ties. One pitcher, who won 20 games for the Mets in 1988 and the Yankees in 1998, is in a club watching people do a dance based on the distinctive leg kick of a recently acquired Cuban pitcher. That righty, who earned three World Series rings for the Yankees, finished his career winning 18 games for the Mets in 2006-07. Name both.

David Cone, Orlando Hernandez