KENTUCKY MAY BUY PRIVATE PLANE FOR RECRUITING EDGE: The LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER reports that University of Kentucky Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart is pining for a private plane to help give UK coaches a recruiting edge.

The $62.7M athletic budget that was approved by the UK athletic association last week includes a $300,000 increase in the men’s basketball […]

AFTER NFL TEAMS PASSED, GF KNOCKED QUINN DOWN TOO: The Deuce of Davenport has a rather pathetic video of Brady Quinn on Saturday as he apparently couldn’t even get some love from his own girlfriend, Lindy Slinger:

Larry Brown also reports on Slinger, a former Miami of Ohio soccer player. Brown notes Quinn talked about her […]

TIME TO FRESHEN UP THAT EDITORIAL LAT STAFF LISTING! Despite LOS ANGELES TIMES sportswriter Mike Penner last week admitting to being a transsexual and officially changing his public name to Christine Daniels, the newspaper has yet to recognize the new byline:

The pink arrow denotes Penner, the blue arrow points to LAT sportswriter Lisa Dillman, who […]

SbB Girls Brittany and Rebecca in Santa Monica, CA:

• BARON IS GUNNING FOR THE MAVS, QUITE LITERALLY: The BASKETBALL JONES has this screen grab of Baron Davis this weekend in a pregame “bullet” fedora:

Maybe it’s just me, but they look more like Bic ballpoints than bullets.
• The WIZARD OF ODDS and ARMCHAIR GM pile on […]

CUBAN RECEIVES GOLDEN SHOWER OF WARRIOR FAN LOVE: A Warriors fan, sitting in Mark Cuban’s most-recent (soiled) seat at Oracle Arena, displays a sign circulated by the Golden State fan site Warriors World:

It’s kind of a cheap shot considering Cuban is considered one of the more classy and well-respected sports figures.

IRL DRIVER DROPS LIVE F-BOMB TWICE ON BROADCASTS: Here’s an interview with IRL Driver Kosuke Matsuura which features him dropping an F-bomb live during ESPN’s race coverage of the St. Petersburg Grand Prix.

Matsuura was reacting to fellow driver Jeff Simmons striking his car for the second straight week on the circuit and told the ESPN-TV […]

CASH DROP - BQ LOSES $17,000,000 ON NFL DRAFT DAY: Darren Rovell does his due diligence on the dramatic drop of Brady Quinn in the NFL Draft and the results are now in.

Rovell concludes that plummeting from Cleveland’s No. 3 pick in the draft to No. 22 will cost Quinn $17M.
On the bright side […]

SbB Girl Kim squeezes into a bikini on Malibu Beach, CA:

THOUGHT SONICS WERE GOING TO OK. CITY? THINK AGAIN: It appears that those who thought the Oklahoma-based group led by Clay Bennett who recently purchased the Seattle Supersonics was merely a prelude to the team moving to Oklahoma City may very well be dead wrong.

The SEATTLE TIMES reports today that instead of moving the team […]

WILL FERRELL AS USC STRENGTH COACH SNEAK PREVIEW: NFL Network tomorrow will air this comedy piece with Will Ferrell as USC auxiliary strength and conditioning coach “Chuck Berry” - who prepares USC offensive lineman Ryan Kalil for the biggest day of his football career:

The video co-stars Pete Carroll and “Little Matty” Leinart.
Get ready to grab […]