Braves’ Kotsay Hits A Home Run With Hottie Wife

Sorry, Sean - we have no openings at the moment. Don’t call us, we’ll call you.

• Mark Kotsay’s wife Jamie is quite the cutie:

• Did Yao bow out on the Rockets for Beijing glory?
• What’s Steve Buckhantz’s weapon of choice? “DAGGER!!!”
• Tennis club bans 9-year-old mini-Maria Sharapova over her grunting.

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Rapper Says Bryant McKinnie’s A Pretty Good Guy

Despite beating up bouncers with metal poles, Bryant McKinnie is actually a good guy - if you were to believe Luther Campbell.

The 2 Live Crew virtuoso & sometime radio show host appeared on Dan Le Batard’s WAXY-AM show on Tuesday. The Miami Hurricanes fan showed his support for the vicious Vikings partygoer, saying Bryant wasn’t […]

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La Russa Still Believes McGwire Never Did Steroids

Bryan Burwell of the ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH chronicles a recent chat he had with Cardinals manager Tony La Russa on the eve of spring training.

While down in Florida, Burwell approached the St. Louis skipper about the subject of steroids - and more specifically, the legacy of Mark McGwire. La Russa still firmly believes that […]

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ESPN Drives Stake Through Salisbury’s TV Career

Michael David Smith of AOL FANHOUSE reports that ESPN’s Sean Salisbury is setting sail from Bristol.

The NFL analyst is parting ways with the Worldwide Leader after 12 years of service. But he didn’t leave without selling himself to potential employers.

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MLB To Give Two-Minute Warning To News Sites

DEADSPIN via THE BIZ OF BASEBALL gets out the stopwatch, as Major League Baseball is enforcing a new 120-second limit on online material.

Starting this season, media websites cannot have more than two minutes of audio or video made from “league facilities”, and game highlights are “restricted only to rights holders that have a separate rights […]

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NIU Back On Court For 1st Time Since Shootings

Northern Illinois University tries to return to some normalcy tonight, as the men’s basketball team hosts Western Michigan.

It will be the first game the Huskies will play since the Feb. 14 classroom shooting that left five students dead. Other sporting events have been rescheduled or canceled altogether.
In a show of support to the school, the […]

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We’re Going To Will Leitch’s Book Thingie Tonight

See you there.

Buy his book.

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Vegas Heaves Sigh Of Selief As TNT Re-Ups Chuck

SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY reports that a new deal will keep Charles Barkley entertaining TNT audiences for years to come - well, at least the next four, anyway.

The deal, which promises to put Chuck’s yearly pay in the mid seven-figure range, is expected to be finalized this week. As part of the new contract, Sir Charles […]

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Sorry, We Still Don’t Feel Sorry For Michael Vick

What would a day be without a little amusement from Mediatakeout.com?

Our favorite reliable source follows up reporting that Serena Williams is pregnant wrong and Jay-Z is married to Beyonce wrong with *news* about Michael Vick’s incarceration.

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Sharapova Cautious In Qatar About Showing Skin

• Michael David Smith of AOL FANHOUSE dresses down Qatar for making Maria Sharapova wear long tights underneath her skirt.

• FAN IQ’s 100% INJURY RATE uncovers a doozy of an Olympic sex scandal - complete with nude pics of opening ceremonies singers and gangsters threatening to cut off arms.
• Barack Obama has Greg Oden’s vote.

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