Guess there are some Boston baseball beauties that can knock your sox off.
• Avery Johnson now has time to attend all those Josh Howard parties.

Will Mark D’Antoni also be available for appearances?
• Some grouchy media dinosaurs use Bob Costas’ HBO show to growl about the sports blogosphere.
• But they don’t understand the true power […]

The blood tests from Carmelo Anthony’s Denver DUI have come back, and the results shows that the Nuggets star was almost twice as drunk as he legally sould have been.

KCNC-TV reports that Anthony’s blood alcohol level had registered .148 for the April 14 incident. The legal limit in Colorado is .08.
Police already had some clue […]

Darryl Strawberry must have figured if Jose Canseco can get two books published, why can’t he get at least one on the Barnes & Noble shelves?

(Which shot makes a better author’s photo for the inside cover?)
The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that the former major leaguer & drug abuser is working on his memoirs, tentatively entitled “Straw”, […]

Now that the 2008 NFL Draft has come & gone, Mel Kiper & Todd McShay won’t have to be heard from again until training camp, when some of the higher selected players are still holding out.

With all their in-depth analysis and high-level face time in front of the cameras, how did ESPN’s draft experts do […]

The NCAA recently passed a rule prohibiting coaches from contacting high school players during the spring evaluation period. So how’s a guy like Nick Saban going to occupy his time from mid-April to the end of May?
By hitting the links & hitting the track!

WIAT-TV in Birmingham chronicles the ‘Bama coach’s busy Tuesday. First, Saban shot […]

The LOS ANGELES TIMES reports that to the surprise of absolutely no one, BCS commissioners today rejected a proposal to include a plus-one playoff game to their already muddled-up postseason format.

(Cheer up! Ohio State will still only lose one BCS game a year.)
SEC commish Mike Slive had presented a plan where the top 4 BCS-ranked […]

• DEADSPIN helps unhooks some of Boston’s lastest Red Sox merch.

• THE WORLD OF ISAAC wonders if Joel Piniero is in the right sport, as the Cardinals pitcher does a kick save & a beauty off a line drive.
• While Lee Elia tries to cash in on his 25-year-old tirade, WALKOFF WALK remembers another memorable […]

Michael Rand of the MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE (and the lad that brings us RANDBALL) brings us the latest in football coach ideas that are crazy enough that they just might work: lining up 11 eligible receivers on every play.

Apparently, it’s legal (at least in California high school football), where the (ahem) undersized Piedmont High School […]

The NEW YORK TIMES takes note of a study completed in Sweden that puts the lie to Dick Pound yet again: large swaths of people in the world have a genetic disposition that allows them to beat the urine test for testosterone. So much for declaring the sanctity of doping testing and the self-assuredness […]

UPDATE: Just as we posted about Josh Howard’s partying after a Dallas playoff game loss, ESPN.com’s Marc Stein reported that Avery Johnson has been fired by the Mavericks. Wonder if there will be a going-away party?

Ten days after Dallas Maverick Josh Howard (once again) admitted that he had smoked marijuana in the past, Jeff Caplan […]