*UPDATE*: Apparently the Feds made a little typo when filing a report about Barry Bonds’ testing positive for steroids in 2001. ESPN reveals that Thursday’s legal filing was actually referring to a November 2000 drug test - a failed test that was already mentioned in the original perjury indictment.
Well, that’s government bureaucracy for you. […]

If Roger Clemens gets a presidential pardon, we want one, too.
• Who would’ve thought Devean George would be such a power player in NBA trade talks?

• Meanwhile, the Association is gazing across the pond, as there’s plans to put teams in Europe.
• Len Pasquarelli must like his job, as the ESPN writer is back at […]

‘Duk of Yahoo Sports’ new BIG LEAGUE STEW blog scares out a gem from Brian McNamee’s deposition to Federal investigators about the party he claimed Roger Clemens attended at Jose Canseco’s house. McNamee:

“Roger showed up after golf, I believe. Maybe he was golfing. I don’t know if he was golfing. He might have showed up […]

Since the last 24 hours in Vegas Playboy Club has had us a little distracted, we’re behind on our Valentine’s Day gifts. Thank goodness Apryl at PEOPLE JAM is here to help us out with last-second, sports-themed suggestions for the big day! She has five stone-cold, lead-pipe locks to make today a poignant, romantic one […]

Marvin Lewis has a message for Ocho Cinco: You’re not going anywhere.

The CINCINNATI ENQUIRER reports that the Bengals coach responded to rumors that the disgruntled receiver is on his way out: “No one within the Bengals organization has ever spoken of or ever uttered anything about trading Chad Johnson, nor will he be traded.”
Despite Ocho’s […]

Just like Tim Hardaway, Brady Quinn says he doesn’t hate gay people. The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that the Cleveland Browns QB denied he was involved in a New Year’s Day fight and that he made a gay slur.

Police had received a 911 call that Quinn & friends were yelling insults at gay passers-by and getting […]

Brian McNamee’s lawyer, Richard Emery, told Ronald Blum of the ASSOCIATED PRESS today that he thinks if Roger Clemens gets convicted “in connection with the baseball steroids scandal, he’d be pardoned by President Bush.”

He also said “some Republicans treated his client harshly because of the pitcher’s friendship with the Bush family.”

• CONSTRUDA saves their singles, as a New York strip club is offering free lap dances for the Super Bowl champion Giants.

• Now that collegiate coffins have been okayed, EVERY DAY SHOULD BE SATURDAY offers up suggestions for scholastic-themed sex toys.
• THE BIZ OF BASKETBALL talks trash, as Steve Nash will be wearing Nike’s new […]

A follow-up to Saturday’s update on former Fresno State women’s hoops coach Stacy Johnson-Klein’s sexual harassment suit: the FRESNO BEE says Johnson-Klein will take the reduced $6.6 million award the judge handed down (cut from the jury’s $19.1 million) and avoid a new trial.

But this may not be the end of it: after having its […]

Just a few days after Richard Zednik’s gruesome neck slash, another NHL player has suffered a painful throat injury.

The BOSTON GLOBE reports that the Bruins’ Aaron Ward was sent to the hospital Wednesday night after getting hit in the throat by a glove & stick (video after the jump).