ROMANOWSKI PLAYS GAY COWBOY IN MOVIE “WEINERS”: The ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS notes the turgid acting market for former bonecrushing NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski.

The RMN reports that “in the upcoming movie Weiners,” the two-footed chemistry set “plays a gay cowboy.“

A gay cowboy in a movie called “Weiners?” No wonder, as the RMN reports, “Romanowski stayed in […]

SCORE ONE FOR NCAA BASKETBALL COACHING CARTEL: The LOS ANGELES TIMES reports that Kevin Durant will soon have a $30M endorsement offer from Nike (which happens to 19-year-olds all the time!). With that news, Texas basketball coach Rick Barnes told the LAT that the NCAA “is changing its rule so players can be insured […]

COWHERD REACT-ATTACKS DOCUMENTED BY SPORTS BLOG: One More Dying Quail is attempting to track the rash of responses from sports bloggers on Colin Cowherd’s federal lawbreaking last week - when he directed listeners to disable the website TheBigLead:

You can rummage through the rebuke roll call here.

ESPN REINSTATES ERIC WYNALDA’S ASS-CLUBBING ACT: SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY reports today that “an ESPN spokesperson confirmed that Wynalda will be back in the booth Thursday for ESPN2’s first primetime game of the season, FC Dallas-Galaxy.”

Even though Jim Rome’s champion, Mark Shapiro, has long-departed the ESPN/ABC/Diz family, Van Smack could’ve squashed Wynalda’s career if he’d wanted […]

MLB OPENING DAY WEATHER WATCH A TIMELESS TALENT: Quote of the decade day: “Why do the Dodgers have seven home games in the first three weeks while the Cubs have 15?”

Keith Olbermann after the Yankees were plagued by cold and snow at their home opener, in 1996.

DAVID BECKHAM BREAKS LIKES BONADUCE, GLOID COMIC: OK, I give up. Like the ASSOCIATED PRESS and Paris Hilton, I’d embargoed all the fake, public relations-manufactured stories about the Beckhams, but I could not ignore the Danny Bonaduce of the sports world when he inked half his torso in honor of an American teevee show.

Much like […]

LUKE FEEDING BRITNEY BOUNCE PASS FOURS YEARS LATE? BANG Showbiz is reporting that “Britney Spears is dating a 6-foot 8-inch basketball star. The 25-year-old singer has reportedly fallen for Los Angeles Lakers player Luke Walton and has been showing her support courtside.

“Britney screamed Luke’s name with the rest of his fans during the game against […]

COLIN WON’T COW IN FACE OF ONRUSHING TECHNOLOGY: None of us fathomed that Don Imus would ever have any competition as the most-admired and respected radio personality in America, until Colin Cowherd came along.

And unlike Cowherd’s newly-surfaced legion of petty, thoughtless, and irresponsible detractors, I’ve just gotten my hot little hands on PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF that […]

CONFUSED USC SONG GIRL TO LINE UP BEHIND RIGHT GUY? USC cheerleaders (or Song Girls as we SC fans call them) have gotten a bad rap over the years, but I’m happy to report that Scott Wolf of the LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS has some (supposed) good news regarding Natalie Nelson, the USC Song Girl […]

ASIAN EQUINE PLAGUE TO SPOOK OLY FEMALE HOOPSTERS? The SOUTH CHINA POST has news that might spook the women’s basketball entries for the Bejing Olympics, as “a strain of equine herpes has infected 132 racehorses in Hong Kong, host of equestrian events at the 2008 Olympics.”

Apparently the horses are recovering and not in danger of […]