• JOHAN SANTANA’S DAD SCORES SERIOUS SCHWAG IN S.F.: The ST. PAUL PIONEER-PRESS reports on the Twins’ three-player contingent (and family) going hog wild for free merch at the All-Star Game.

Apparently MLB filled a “room full of merchandise from its vendors and allowed each player to take whatever they liked.” And we’re not talking about […]

THE INTERNETS REALLY SUCK WHEN YOU’RE CAUGHT LYING: Yesterday the LOS ANGELES TIMES had the owner/operator of SPORTING NEWS RADIO (and the man with two last names) Clancy Woods denying that the radio network was in the running for the services of Dan Patrick: “I don’t think we are in the loop on this one.”

SbB […]

GARCIA PICKED OFF BY DRATTED SHIPPING AND HANDLING: There’s a good reason why ESPN is the 800-lb gorilla (no, not Chris Berman) in the hairy-knuckled, pit-stained sports media sauna: The network is the consumate expert at feeding the sports fan precisely what he/she truly desires.

The best example we can cite is last week’s SportsCenter day-in-the-life […]

QB LEINART GETS BOATRACED BY SOMEONE NAMED LEANN: Here’s a fun video of a scowling “Matt Leinert” reacting to getting destroyed in a go-kart race by Leann Tweeden during Super Bowl week this year:

After hearing Leinart’s flaccid explanation for getting smoked on the track by a poor man’s Jillian Barberie, we’re guessing the only time […]

KENNY MAYNE HOME RUN DERBY BOOGERCAM GOIN’ DEEP:

THE MIGHTY QUINN PICKS HIS POISON WITH GUN SHOW: MONDESI’S HOUSE features this fab photo of the Browns’ Brady Quinn doing an unskinny bop above Bret Michaels, frontman of ’80s hair band Poison:

While Brady seems to be having Nothin’ But a Good Time, Bret looks like he just needs Something to Believe In.

UTEP PLAYERS TAKE A WRONG TURN DOWN GLORY ROAD: Five UTEP football players along with a former teammate were arrested at an El Paso nightclub over the weekend:

KDBC reports that several people were reportedly fighting outside of Club Blue at 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning before police arrived. The Miners mob are facing several charges, including […]

• Mike Checka: AWFUL ANNOUNCING kicks out the jams, as Mike Greenberg hones his “Monday Night Football” B-Team vocal skillz by rapping old school to Run-DMC:

• 100% INJURY RATE isn’t worried about the U.S. failures in the Copa America, as the *real* football world cup gets underway in Japan.
• EAST SIDE BOXING wishes a happy […]

B-BALLER BOASTING & BRAGGING HIS WAY TO BAD BLOOD: Highly-sought basketball recruit Willie Warren has been making fast friends in the past few weeks:

As shaken out by the college b-ball blog GOOD ‘N PLENTY, the HS senior from Texas had some brash words for Mr. Bryant at Kobe’s Skills Academy. “I told him that in […]