THE SMOKING GUN today has photos released by Brian McNamee’s lawyers “purporting to show syringes, blood-specked gauze pads, and drug vials used by the embattled baseball star (Roger Clemens).

“McNamee’s lawyers have said that the items were turned over last month to federal investigators who have been probing the widespread use and distribution of illegal substances […]

Where the MSM’s disdain doesn’t bother us as much as it bothers Shaq:
• Imitation must be the sincerest form of flattery, as The NEW YORK POST appreciates a good animated gif when they see one:

• One of Dan Patrick’s favorite daily web stops has been offline for over a year.
• Some Pro Bowlers are con […]

We’ve always looked at Purdue football as the 98 Degrees of that golden age of music, the ’90s boy band phenomenon. A couple small hits here and there, but never quite able to grab attention away from the big boys - like the Backstreet Boys (Michigan) and N’Sync (Ohio State).

(Your Nick Lachey of Big Ten […]

Many viewers - especially in New York, not so much in Boston - will fondly recall the Reebok ad immediately shown after the exciting conclusion of Super Bowl XLII:

But DEADSPIN via LARRY BROWN SPORTS digs up the version you were supposedly supposed to see, had Eli played like E-L-I instead of the M-V-P in the […]

An Indiana high school swimming coach has been arrested for secretly videotaping girls in the locker room.

The KOKOMO TRIBUNE reports that Kokomo coach Brian Hindson was hauled off by authorities on federal child pornography charges. After searching his home, police removed 65 items from Hindson’s house, including “computer hard drives, monitors, CDs, DVDs, camera equipment […]

Shaquille O’Neal to FSN Arizona today on the negative reaction of the media on the Suns acquisition of him: “I’m very upset. … I have cable. I watch ESPN. I listen to Mike Wilbon and ‘Around The Horn’ and all that stuff.”

We haven’t been watching Wilbon lately on PTI (shouldn’t he be resting?). […]

• MR. IRRELEVANT exposes Allie LaForce, a former Miss Ohio & the next Erin Andrews:

Oh, and the current Erin Andrews:

Why, she even has her own website up & running! (Which appears to have bee left idle since 2005. Maybe Dan Patrick checks this site everyday, too.)
• AWFUL ANNOUNCING hears that Bob Costas is none […]

Sad story out of Detroit today, as the DETROIT NEWS reports that former major league pitcher and Detroit Tigers announcer Lary Sorensen just registered his seventh DUI. He was discovered on Saturday nearly dead in his car by police officers on the side of a Detroit highway.

Sorensen had a blood alchohol level of .48, which […]

The ARIZONA REPUBLIC reports today that “A Tempe man surrendered to police on Super Bowl Sunday after plotting to shoot and kill people at the big game because of a liquor-license dispute, according to federal-court documents.”

(Iceberg lettuce, piled high)
The crazy guy behind the plot is named Kurt Havelock, and he “recently purchased an AR-15 […]

Curt Schilling, fresh off signing an incentive-laden, one-year $8M deal with the Red Sox, apparently is now hurt.

Nick Cafardo and Gordon Edes of the BOSTON GLOBE report today “Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is not expected to be ready for the start of spring training because of shoulder issues, much like the ones that caused […]