CONFIRMED: FAN CHARGED FOR LITHUANIA DUNK CONTEST: There’s a reason why Americans shouldn’t hold butter churning contests. And it’s the same reason (whatever it is) that Lithuanians shouldn’t hold dunking contests.
Exhibit A: Paulius Parachomikas, the runner-up in this year’s Lithuanian professional basketball league’s dunk contest - see if you can guess why:

I’m just hoping against […]

Correct us if we’re wrong, but a new policy laid down by ESPN on how it will correct mistakes it has made across its far-reaching entities (TV, radio, internet, magazine, Chris Berman’s hiring) would seem to require the launch a whole new division: Fact checking.
“ESPN has always made corrections,” said ESPN executive editor John A. […]

MANTLE, DUBYA PART OF TOPPS BASEBALL CARD GIMMICK: This may not go down as famously as the Billy Ripken 1989 Fleer baseball card that had F*** FACE written on the knob of his bat, but a card that’s part of the new 2007 Topps set featuring Derek Jeter has a couple of quirks that may […]

KAPONO SHOT BLANKS AT LAS VEGAS ALL-STAR HOT SPOTS: Jason Kapono, the Heat hotshot who won the All-Star weekend’s 3-point shootout, tells the CHICAGO TRIBUNE that he didn’t have much luck at the LV clubs, and even Heat teammate Alonzo Mourning forgot to put him on guest lists for the Vegas shindigs that took place […]

LA DAILY NEWS EXPOSES USC GOALIE WHO MOONED BYU: Maybe you’ve seen or heard about how USC hockey goalie Mickey Meyer wowed the crowd in Logan, Utah with his bare-butt exhibition during a stopage in play at a college hockey game against BYU last weekend.

What was Mickey thinking?
In an email sent to LOS ANGELES DAILY […]

CELTICS’ PARISH PUTS L.A. RADIO IN CHOKE HOLD: Former Boston Celtics star Robert “Chief” Parish got all choked up when he talked about his life in the NBA during an interview with “The Loose Cannons” on KLAC-AM Wednesday.

Particularly when it came to reminiscing about what it was like going up against former Detroit Pistons center […]

ESPN.COM WRITER APPARENTLY COMES OUT IN COLUMN: It may not be a giant blip on the sports media landscape, but Tim Hardaway’s gay-bashing display has apparently caused ESPN Page 2 columnist Mary Buckheit to out herself.

In her Friday column posted on ESPN.com about Hardaway, Buckheit writes that she “swore a long time ago that I […]

BASEBALL THAT’S BOUND TO OFFEND SOMEONE: Former major leaguers Ken Holtzman, Ron Blomberg and Art Shamsky have been hired as managers for the first season of what’ll be called the Israel Baseball League.

Meaning, there’ll be a place for Scott Schoeneweis, Mike Lieberthal, David Eckstein and Shawn Green to play someday.
Six teams — the Bet Shemesh […]

BEYONCE, ONCE AGAIN: We’re not throwing away the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue just because the magazine desperately trying to stay afloat has Maxim-ized its marketing by putting a hot recognizable singer on the cover during Grammy season instead of its usual not-so-recognizable model.

But for our tastes, Beyonce’s coming out party as a covergirl came […]

BEAVERS BOB FOR DOLL’S TRUE INSPIRATION: The Triple-A Portland Beavers want to give the inspiration for the bobblehead doll his just due. If only they can find him.
At the very least, anyone named Bob L. Head — legally — can apply for the honor at the team’s official website from now until March 31. The […]