ARM & LEG FOR OSCAR NIGHT: Got $29,500 lying around that you aren’t using? Then I’ve got a deal for you:

One ticket to watch Floyd Mayweather, Jr., drub his Daddy’s fighter, Oscar De La Hoya, on May 5.

VACCARO DUCKS REEBOK REDUX: Sonny Vaccaro has departed Reebok as something called Senior Director of Grassroots Basketball to set up a basketball “academy” for the nation’s most talented young players.
When Vaccaro was at Nike, he created the monster that is shoe contracts for college basketball teams and coaches, and in the process was […]

SEAN SALISBURY ON-AIR SLUR DENIED BY ESPN: Over the past couple years, the on-air performance and appearance of ESPN football analyst Sean Salisbury has become more and more erratic.

The former NFL QB’s appearance always seems to vary, from the a generally disheveled look to wildly fluctuating weight. And often he’s completely hoarse.
I’m an avid […]

NAME-DROPPING NHL OWNER’S HATCHER JOB: Washington Capitals Owner Ted Leonsis has a blog, and he used it recently to backhand actress Teri Hatcher for not recognizing him - and celebrate his own microscopic kernel of celebrity.

Detroit Tiger pitcher Todd Jones, an Alabama resident, to the DETROIT FREE PRESS on the new three-year, $12-million contract of former Tiger Jamie Walker, who is from Tennesee:
“Twelve million dollars is a lot of money, but $12 million in Tennessee? He might as well be Donald Trump. That’s a lot of generic-brand beer, and a […]

BATS, BALLS, BOOZE & BROADS: SportsHollywood has the insane, booze-fueled history of the Vernon Tigers, a turn-of-the-century pro baseball club in Los Angeles.
The team first opened its doors in 1909 in the tiny L.A. suburb of Vernon, then quickly moved to Venice because the town would allow booze to be sold at the ballpark […]

AL’S HARASSING LANE NOW OPEN: SbB has scored a major exclusive: the front page of new Oakland Raider coach Lane Kiffin’s employee handbook:

And I think I speak for all USC fans when I say …

… to Al(zheimer) Davis.

BELICHICK BLAMED FOR WILCOTS’ BOTCH: Enough already of people ripping New England Coach Bill Belichick for his abbreviated postgame TV interview with CBS sideline reporter Solomon Wilcots after the Patriots 38-24 loss to Indianapolis on Sunday.

I saw the interview live. I then watched it again … and again.
The reason Belichick came off as curt is […]

CARPENTER STILL NAILS WITH CAMERON? The mother of Matt Leinart’s child, USC basketball player Brynn Cameron, is pictured with their 3-month-old Cole (better known in Los Angeles as SUPERBABY!) and Arizona State Quarterback Rudy Carpenter during a recent basketball game between USC and ASU.

Leinart dumped Cameron before the kid was born, but will apparently financially […]

NESN is planning a reality dating show, “Sox Appeal”, that will be shot at Red Sox games at Fenway Park during next season. The ten-episode series will debut in July.
Similar to cheesy dating programs like “Elimidate”, the show will follow one dater through three, two-inning long dates.
During the seventh-inning stretch, the dater must decide who […]