Jorge Sedano of WAXY-AM in Miami tips us tonight that Jason Taylor will be joining the next season of “Dancing With The Stars”.

The Miami Dolphins defensive star will bring his sack dance moves to the small screen when the ABC reality series begins again in March. Taylor will join other sports celebrities like Emmitt Smith, […]

Cheerleaders always pump us up. Now they’re doing the same to themselves.
• High school football phenom Terrelle Pryor almost pulls an Artest on a rival basketball crowd.

• When it comes to on-court marriage proposals, guess love doesn’t conquer all - but maybe hoaxes do.
• Vin Baker’s seafood restaurant is tossed back to his creditors.

Marc Stein of ESPN reports that Ron Artest sent a message that he doesn’t seem to be so unsatisfied with the Sacramento Kings.

After telling his NBA employers earlier this month that it “would be better if I wasn’t on the team,” Artest e-mailed the Worldwide Leader about his supposed change of heart:
“I am anxious to […]

Apparently Tim Tebow has been a hot topic among presidential hopefuls. The FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM reports how the Heisman-winning Florida Gators QB has been asked by candidates to toss some of his time on their campaign trails.

Although Tebow said he was honored about the requests, he decided to give the politicos a pass:

The ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER has the inspiring tale of Cullen Fitzgibbons, a high school wrestler who finished his career without a win.

How is that inspiring? The wrestler didn’t let Down syndrome keep him from competing.

Spencer Hall of THE SPORTING BLOG punches up video of Kimbo Slice taking it to Tank Abbott during Saturday night’s MMA fight in Miami:
Last Saturday night, the bouncer-slash-porn producer bodyguard took less than a minute to flatten Abbott, much to the delight of Kimbo’s hometown crowd. So much for Tank’s pre-fight prediction: “On Feb. […]

• The LONDON GUARDIAN has the poop on Barnsley’s coach getting a lucky omen before his team’s big upset over Liverpool: “I left the team hotel for a walk in the town centre, and as I was talking a bird shat right on my head.”

• RANDBALL crunches the numbers & debunks the myth that […]

Per STEROID NATION, the STAR-NEWS (N.C.), alerts us to a book that examines the use of performance enhancing drugs in college cheerleading.

Author Lisa Torgovnick is a former contributor to JANE who now writes for the NEW YORK TIMES. She spent an entire season following cheerleaders in competition. While much of the book has to do […]

Andy Pettitte, Paul LoDuca and Eric Gagne bailed out MSM outlets looking for copy fill today, as all three addressed the media over issues initially wrought by the Mitchell Report.

Of course, that fill reminded us of something you might find stamped into the side of a hill, with vents coming out.

Britton Colquitt, fourth in the line of FFOTVP (First Family of Tennessee Volunteer Punters), won’t be kicking in the first five games of 2008 and will have to pay for school out of his own pocket after getting popped for DUI when he hit a parked car over the weekend.

THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN reports the news, […]