Apparently our Brady Hunch about the former Orioles outfielder Anderson was wrong all along, at least according to TMZ.com:

Lest you think Anderson is the most prominent in the Orioles pantheon of posers:

CAKE ROCKS THE PARTY has an epic post today on Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl™ IV, which is described on the network’s website (in rather boring detail) as. “We’ve traded in linebackers for labradors and quarterbacks for corgis and we’re releasing the hounds for PUPPY BOWL IV on Sunday.”

Sadly, Bryant Gumbel will be bathrobed at home […]

SPORTS ON MY MIND, FAN IQ, AWFUL ANNOUNCING and SMW have coverage of Michael Wilbon’s “mild” heart attack. Wilbon went to the hospital yesterday for chest pain. Doctors found a blockage in his heart and removed it with angioplasty. He’s now doing fine. Strangely, not one word about it (so far, that we could find) […]

A month ago, UCLA hired Rick Neuheisel as its football coach. Neuheisel, a former Bruins player, most recently served as a head coach at the Univ. of Washington for four seasons, until he was pushed out in 2003 for participating in March Madness tournament pools.

But that’s tame compared to what the SEATTLE TIMES recently dug […]

Adrian Ross isn’t the only one to have his scantily-clad Super Bowl shindig scuttled. The EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE reports that there’ll be no Lingerie Bowl performed this year.

Organizers blame the city of Scottsdale for “wasting their time” trying to obtain a permit for the halftime extravaganza. It was their first attempt at holding the game […]

SPORTS COLUMN serves up video of a guy taking a 50 m.p.h. tennis ball to the groin - all in the name of science!

The clip comes from the Fox Sports show “Sport Science”. Apparently, the experiment was to determine how the anticipation & pain of getting hit in the nads affects the heart rate. […]

• SIGNAL TO NOISE believes Redskins owner Dan Snyder is the second coming of Al Davis.

• Darren Rovell of CNBC bets how many times Peyton Manning’s name will be invoked at the Super Bowl.
• Meanwhile, BRAHSOME gambles on what tunes will be in Tom Petty’s halftime repetoire.
• BULLZ-EYE dribbles up a nice chat with Curly […]