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.