A friendly reminder - the Patriots’ victory parade (same day as Super Tuesday) is less than a week away!

• A putrid parent faked his kid’s cancer just so they’d get a visit from Steve Yzerman.

• Disgraced TV anchor Alycia Lane may be back on the airwaves - with the WWE?
• Argue with Sonics owner […]

When it comes to books *authored* by athletes, we’ve always been dubious of ghostwriters. That is, until we started attempting to read edit-free blogs written by athletes. We find most of them to be spectacularly narcisstic and boring, with a few notable exceptions (Gil Arenas is the best read).

Yardbarker.com is a sports community that’s […]

Barack Obama will be htting the campaign trail hard & heavy in the next few days before Super Tuesday. But the Democratic presidential hopeful might not even be in the race, if it wasn’t for a certain ex-coach of a certain football team known as Da Bears.

Back in 2004, Illinois Republicans were looking for a […]

Move over, Will Leitch. Take a back seat, Jose Canseco. Tony Dungy is ready to light up the literary world again.

The INDIANAPOLIS STAR reports that the Colts coach is coming out with a sequel to his New York Times bestseller “Quiet Strength” - the 96-page paperback “Quiet Strength: Men’s Bible Study.”
According to the news release, […]

The HUFFINGTON POST picks up word from the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS that former news anchor Alycia Lane may be back in front of the cameras again - for the WWE.

Lane and Philly radio jock Chris Booker were seen together in the Wachovia Center crowd during Monday night’s ‘WWE Raw’. The next day, Booker said on […]

With such an alluring match-up between Maria Sharapova & Ana Ivanovic, it would’ve been hard not to tune in to the Australian Open women’s final.

Unless you had the tube on Down Under, and there was cricket on other stations.
The BRISBANE COURIER-MAIL reports that Aussie TV ratings for this year’s “Glam Slam” were actually down from […]

Terrelle Pryor is such a hot commodity, that Joe Paterno is willing to leave the friendly confines of State College to pay the prized prospect a visit.

(JoePa gets ready to hit the road for Terrelle’s house.)
The PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER reports that the 81-year-old Penn State coach doesn’t usually go on recruiting trips nowadays. But JoePa […]

The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports a Pennsylvania high school wrestling coach has chosen to resign, rather than face criminal charges for biting one of his players.

Mike Marshall of Central Cambria High reportedly bit the wrestler on the upper thigh during a practice back on January 21. Police say the chomp caused bruising but did not draw […]

• JOE SPORTS FAN finds Bulls rookie Joakim Noah trying to salvage his season - by trying out for ‘American Idol’?

• RANDBALL examines the Johan Santana trade from the Twins’ point of view.
• WITH LEATHER is bored by the Bard, as NPR offers up Super Bowl Media Day as if written by William Shakespeare.
• AWFUL […]

On January 2, ESPN THE MAGAZINE published a tear-rending tale by Eric Adelson about a relationship between a cancer-stricken young boy and Steve Yzerman. If you don’t well up reading it, you aren’t breathing.

The boy, Braxton Davis, had battled a variety of cancer-related maladies. That is, according to his father Brant.
But after the piece was […]