• Cowboys fans can keep cringing, as Tony Romo & Jessica Simpson could soon be tying the knot:

• Shaq & Kidd’s new team debuts could have gone better.
• Amani Toomer doesn’t really Hail to the Victors much these days.
• The Lakers’ Coby Karl had a busy Tuesday, playing two pro basketball […]

Ethan Skolnick of the SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL has an update on what has become somewhat of a political football in Miami: Dolphin Jason Taylor taking part in “Dancing With The Stars.”

Amusingly, many Fins fans have made it known on Miami sports radio stations that they aren’t happy that Taylor will miss some of the club’s […]

PORTLAND OREGONIAN badass (we mean that in a complimentary way) John Canzano has a piece today on why he wants Portland Trailblazer Darius … Miles Out Of Town.

Canzano makes a fine case on why dead weight-Darius should retire. But more interesting is Canzano detailing Miles’ recent visit to a local strip club - with Oregon […]

YARDBARKER via SCOTT VAN PELT STYLE passes along the job status of Reggie Love, former Duke basketball player who’s now serving as Barack Obama’s personal point man.

Among the various duties Reggie does for the Democratic presidential candidate is to keep Obama in top form with a little one-on-one.

Eric Byrnes has his Shaggin’ Wagon. Jamie Walker has his Banditmobile.

The BALTIMORE SUN revs up news of the Orioles pitcher running around town in a 1981 Trans Am - complete with a big ol’ Firebird right on the hood and a license plate that reads “I heart Dixie”.

KRIS-TV in Corpus Christi reports that Justin Timberlake’s next film role will be a minor one - a minor league one, that is.

The pop star-slash-actor-slash Pepsi punching bag will be portraying a minor league baseball player in the upcoming movie “The Open Road”

With the NBA trade deadline approaching, ESPN.com’s Marc Stein reports this afternoon that the Cavs, Sonics and Bulls are league approval away from consumating a multiplayer trade that would bring the player with the NBA’s worst contract, Ben Wallace, to Cleveland.

Cavs get: Wallace, Sonic Wally Szczerbiak, Seattle point guard Delonte West, Chicago’s Joe Smith and […]

Jeff Goodman of FOXSports.com reports today that Indiana Coach Kelvin “Sampson was informed early Thursday that he will no longer be the coach at Indiana, numerous sources told FOXSports.com.”

“The official announcement is expected to come Friday, when the university’s self-imposed seven-day investigation period ends. When asked to confirm Sampson’s firing, Indiana director of media relations […]

• JOE SPORTS FAN calls up their Worthless Card Collection once again. Next at the plate: Ivan Calderon.

• THE 700 LEVEL cashes in news that Ryan Howard won his arbitration case.
• 100% INJURY RATE learned something today, as the Australian Football League has released an instructional video telling its players how […]

Lost in the odd remark yesterday that Alex Rodriguez made about his daughters marrying Andy Pettitte in order to laud the pitcher’s so-called truth telling about his HGH use was an assertion A-Rod made that he was tested for PEDs “9 or 10 times last season.” Problem is, that number of tests in one year […]