• Mark Cuban bounces bloggers out of Mavericks’ locker room - and uses his blog to explain why.

• John Daly recently lost 180 pounds - by having his swing coach quit.
• Memo to Red Sox reporters: Beware of flying objects, whether horsehide or pelican.
• Billy Packer tries to explain CBS’s sagging March Madness ratings.

A high school recruit’s visit to the ESPN studios may have gotten the University of Connecticut into trouble with the NCAA.

Shelley Smith reports that her employer may have helped the Huskies commit violations when they allowed women’s basketball recruit Maya Moore to take a trip around the Bristol-based buildings. Sources say the UConn-requested tour was […]

A Clemson football player who gained national attention by becoming the legal guardian of his little brother had his scholarship taken away.

Phil Taylor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED updates the latest sad turn of Ray Ray McElrathbey, who was able to get the NCAA to allow him to accept financial assistance to help raise his 11-year-old brother […]

Do the Yankees & Rays know the real season doesn’t starts until a couple of weeks? So why waste all that anger now when it doesn’t count?

ESPN reports that the two teams cleared the benches during the second inning of Wednesday’s game. The bad blood had been simmering since four days ago, when New York […]

The latest injury to befall Kaz Matsui is a real pain in the butt - literally.

(Kaz readies himself for a check-up)
The HOUSTON CHRONICLE reports that the Astros’ 2nd baseman will be out four to five days after being diagnosed with an “anal fissure”.
Wait, a what?

• Neil Best of NEW YORK NEWSDAY learns that Lenny Dykstra still doesn’t like to read, yet makes mad money.

• OBSERVATIONS FROM ABOVE THE RIM doesn’t like Mike Krzyzewski being criticized for not wearing a ribbon for a slain North Carolina student.
• GOING FIVE HOLE sees nothing wrong with the last event at Yankee Stadium […]

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE reports that Wrigley Co. Chairman Bill Wrigley Jr. today addressed the possibility of purchasing the naming rights for Wrigley Field from current team owner Sam Zell.

Wrigley’s response, based on the inflamed reaction of fans to Zell’s proclamation that he would sell the park’s naming rights, will disappointing to locals, to say the […]

In quick succession recently, the NBA lost Yao Ming and Dwayne Wade to season-ending injuries. In each case, the player had apparently been struggling through one or more injuries and simply could not risk playing any longer. Also, each player had strong reasons to begin the healing process as soon as possible: Olympic […]

After watching Pete Sampras nearly beat Roger Federer last night, are we the only ones wondering why he remains retired? We know, probably not.

The 36-year-old Sampras, employing a “secret” Wilson prototype racket, took the greatest(?) player in the game to the limit in front of a sold-out crowd at MSG in New York. Ironically though, […]

It must be great to be a Celtics PR flack these days, at least compared to last season. The Celtics can’t stop winning; the city loves the players; no one’s getting in any trouble. It beats explaining the last known whereabouts of Vin Baker, anyway.

On the other hand, there’s exactly the same amount […]