• 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 […]