No crosstown trips necessary for USC football fans - for now.
• In case you didn’t know, Roger Clemens was in Washington today.

• Those crazy Chris Berman clips have been booted off YouTube.
• Is Michael Wilbon swiping NBA All-Star ideas from bloggers?

A religious high school in Kansas wouldn’t use a certain referee for one of their boys’ basketball games - just because she was a woman.

The KANSAS CITY STAR reports that back on Feb. 2, officials from St. Mary’s Academy told Michelle Campbell right before tip-off that she wouldn’t be working that night.

Tim Hardaway showed up on 790 The Ticket’s Dan Le Batard Show on Wednesday, returning a year after his last appearance caused quite a stir.

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The last time Hardaway was on Le Batard’s show, the ex-NBA’er went off on a anti-gay rant when asked about John Amaechi coming out. Tim had eventually told […]

ESPN reports that the New Jersey Nets have agreed in principle to trade disgruntled star Jason Kidd back to the Dallas Mavericks.

The “imminent” deal would send Kidd & Malik Allen to Big D, while New Jersey nets Jerry Stackhouse, Devin Harris & 3 other players, along with $3 million in cash and the Mavs’ first-round […]

• WITH LEATHER, via AOL FANOUSE, uploads video of Shaq calling out Bill Walton for breaking the “Big Man Code”:

• RANDBALL asks that we all hail Wally Szczerbiak’s new son, Maximus.
• THE 700 LEVEL finally found a reason to show up for a Sixers game - a Mr. Potatohead giveaway!

The NEWARK STAR-LEDGER has a report on the stark decline in value on Roger Clemens merchandise. Excerpt:
Darrell Giordano used to have no trouble moving Roger Clemens’ 1985 rookie card from Topps, selling two or three cards a week at $30 a pop from his sports collectible store in Morris Plains.

“We haven’t sold one since […]

Hat tips to Michael David Smith at the AOL FANHOUSE for finding this USA TODAY piece by its sports media columnist, Michael Heistrand, in which NBC’s Sunday Night Football sideline reporter Andrea Kremer and producer Fred Gaudelli take shots at ESPN for cutting back the roles of sideline reporters Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya on […]

The Congressional hearing involving Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee has ended. As expected, nothing exciting or unexpected was exposed. The only question that remains is if we’ll soon see Clemens in a courtroom getting cross-examined by Federal investigators. We doubt it.
The only person who can really foil Clemens’ great escape now from the Feds is […]

Guess those threats to move to the Rose Bowl on a more permanent basis were just that, as the L.A. TIMES reports that USC and the Coliseum Commission have come to a tentative agreement that will keep the Trojans at their home stadium for this season and beyond.

The deal, if approved by a vote of […]

The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS is touting an exclusive that Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte got his shipments of human growth hormone from his father Tom.

The statement made its way to the paper and was then given to the House committee grilling both Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee this morning.