One of our colossal regrets about the lead-up to Sunday’s Super Bowl is that Jeremy Shockey won’t be involved. If anyone could’ve livened up the drab pregame proceedings, it was the tattooed former member of The U.

But we’re not so sure that would’ve been good for the Giants on the field. One prominent NFL player, […]

The FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM follows up on Michael Byars-Dawson, an American basketball player who’s currently making his living in Iran.

The former Texas high school star talks about the culture shock of playing professionally in the Middle Eastern country. One surprise is how manic Iranian basketball fans can get.
Byars-Dawson remembers one road game where he got […]

The Glendale City Council made it rain on Adrian Ross’ parade, as the former Cincinnati Bengal couldn’t get a liquor license to hold a Super Bowl party at the host city’s only strip club.

The ARIZONA REPUBLIC reports that Ross was hoping to get some NFL folks to show up at Pink Caberet for nine days […]

David Whitley (via FAN IQ) douses the haterade on Reggie Bush with a column in the ORLANDO SENTINEL (which has a vastly underrated sports staff).

(“Beautiful People?”)
Excerpt of Whitley drive-by: “He has a $60 million contract. His jersey is one of the NFL’s hottest sellers. He’s hanging out with the Beautiful People, and nobody seems to […]

TIME magazine gives a toast to a new study that may be too good to be true - drinking can actually be good for you.

Researchers in Denmark have determined that a glass of alcohol a day can have the same beneficial effect on the heart as moderate exercise. Both activities create HDL, also known as […]

Dogs can have quite the active appetite for sports. When they’re not eating World Series-clinching baseballs, they’re chewing up Super Bowl tickets.

BUSTED COVERAGE alerts us to an ARIZONA REPUBLIC story of a black lab named Buddy, who gnawed on the stubs for next week’s big game.
Buddy’s owner had requested that the courier sending the $900 […]

• CAN’T STOP THE BLEEDING digs up the Pats’ putrid rebuttal to the ‘85 Bears’ Super Bowl Shuffle:

• ODENIZED discovers Deron Williams of the Utah Jazz can’t get any help moving.
• Meanwhile, POST GAME HEROES shows how the Pittsburgh Penguins purchase their BMWs - while acting rather badly.
• FAN IQ spots Dominique Wilkins as a […]