J.A. Adande has a piece today at ESPN.com on one of L.A.’s newest must-see nightspots. (At least for 48 minutes, three times per week.)

You won’t find this club in a reconditioned room hidden in some grimy Hollywood back alley. The space resides in Staples Center, where nightclub mogul Sam Nazarian bought out eight upper level […]

Bob Griese is back after serving his one-week sentence for speculating on the gastronomic predilections of Juan Pablo Montoya - working today’s Iowa-Northwestern game.

Admirable move by ESPN to make a statement about the proper promotion of diversity in sports.  But last night, a graphics guy on Louisiana Tech-Boise State broadcast might’ve gone a little overboard […]

Tweet this afternoon from PORTLAND OREGONIAN columnist and sports radio host John Canzano:

Blount is eligible to return Saturday as the Ducks play at Stanford, but it doesn’t appear, at least from Canzano’s Tweet, that he’ll make the trip.

Jerrod at MidwestSportsFan.com tipped me to this recent photo of Sammy Sosa:

Looks like a case of Vitiligo to me, but I’m no expert. More pics after the jump.

(Larger version)
1) Two things I know: Ladies love the long hair. Smurfs.
2) Souvenir from under the Granada Hills Stadium bleachers.
3) Last time I invite that damn tuba player over.
4) Contains field soil from biggest road win: San Jose State. (Or was it Cal-Davis?)
5) Shipping number sez Centaur should’ve been here last Tuesday.

Who knew ’slump buster’ had a second, distinctly different definition?

I did not know that. Thanks, Al.
TheBiglead.com with the pointer. (Video after the jump.)

UPDATE (2:25 ET): Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer reports “the gunman has been apprehended.” Dyer’s spokeswoman reports Jason Rodriguez was located at his mother’s residence and caught by a S.W.A.T. “without incident.”
Scary stuff in Orlando today as Local 6 reports on a gunman terrorizing an office building in the Central Florida city:
The shooting took place at […]

The WASHINGTON POST’s  The Reliable Source reports on Kevin Johnson’s new fiancee, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee:

She’s a 39-year-old divorcee and mother of two. He’s never married. No kids.

Any left?

Anyone?

Chris Littman of THE SPORTING BLOG has this DVD-only Sacha Cohen Bruno bit that involves Pete Rose.

The piece is an interview with Rose, but because the furniture for the setting didn’t arrive in time, Rose has to “sit on the Mexicans.”
More on the bit and video (NSFW) after the jump.