• Is Jessica Simpson jinxing another Dallas team? Maybe Chad Johnson can come to the rescue.

• A word of warning to Philly fans: Don’t mess with Allen Iverson’s mama.
• Andrew Bogut is not stylin’ on the Bucks sidelines.
• Barack Obama & John McCain aren’t afraid to get in on the March Madness, but Hillary Clinton […]

When Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins and noted spokesman for Short Man’s Disease, installed Mark Shapiro, former ESPN executive VP of programming, as the CEO of Six Flags in 2005 at a rumored cost of $10m in guaranteed salary and bonuses, he certainly hoped for better than cockroach eating contests and finding exciting […]

Via USS MARINER, we discover that Ichiro Suzuki’s brain has been studied by a Japanese celebrity brain scientist for the salaryman version of “Inside the Actor’s Studio”, wherein a fawning expert in the field of brainery determines how successful people got that way. Ichiro’s secret? Obsessive-compulsive disorder, dime store philosophy, and active disassociation […]

So far, March Madness has been more like March Mellowness. Except for Marquette’s victory over Kentucky, most of the games have been blowouts by the higher seeds.

And it really doesn’t make for exciting viewing when you can only manage 10 total points in the first half.

The PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE reports that the Steelers have released Cedrick Wilson, after the receiver was arrested for punching his ex-girlfriend in the face.

But just over a week earlier, Steelers linebacker James Harrison was cuffed for assaulting his girlfriend, yet he’s still on the team. Is there some kind of double-standard at Heinz Field?

BLEEDING GREEN NATION gleefully presents screen grabs of the Dallas Cowboys unwittingly showing their defensive back draft board.

It appears that the cameras of KTXA in Dallas caught a glimpse of the Cowboys’ DB wish list during a visit to team headquarters. Such lists of franchises’ draft desires are usually kept very secret. But Eagles-backing BGN […]

• FOOD COURT LUNCH steps up with O.J. Simpson imploring you to “Show them your heels“.

• Darren Rovell of CNBC discovers St. Joseph’s nixing Nike, as the Hawks’ small-business uniform supplier suits them just fine.
• PRO FOOTBALL TALK learns that David Garrard thinks he’s better than Tony Romo.

Billy Crystal’s recent romp through Paul Maholm’s repertoire made for lovely press on a slow news day and the old boy got to live the dream a mere four decades too late. (By the way, what the hell, Paul? Throwing cutters at a 60-year-old man? Way to get into the moment.) […]

LA WEEKLY has a rather lengthy, yet startling look into Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s claim that he’s building a $50 million homeless shelter, as announced by his various LOS ANGELES TIMES full page advertisements the last two years.

Since the ads began, construction has not begun on the facility, nor have meetings with […]

Jerry Crowe of the L.A. TIMES has an epic profile today on former Loyola Marymount star and NBA flameout Bo Kimble.

Kimble you remember was an integral part of the LMU squad that lit the NCAAs on fire in the early ’90s. Now he wants to coach the basketball Lions, but is getting pushback from the […]