• Oh, Dennis Rodman, what mischief have you gotten into now? The LOS ANGELES TIMES is more than happy to tell us.

• AWFUL ANNOUNCING wishes there wasn’t a screen behind home plate for once, as this cell phone gabber gets quite a surprise during a Rangers game.

• WICKED GOOD SPORTS ponders the possibility of this year’s All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium having no Yankee starters.

• HUGGING HAROLD REYNOLDS wonders if Barack Obama’s b-ball photo up with the Tar Heels was in violation of NCAA rules.

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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 of the Internet, as in the case of a small-college football player using YouTube to get himself drafted by the Eagles.

• Maria Sharapova finally meets Anna Kournikova - about 3-5 years too late for most of the media to care.

• Sisters are doing it for themselves - especially when it comes to softball sportsmanship.

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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 teams would meet in a mini-playoff. However, the other conferences decided that things are fine just the way they are, and will continue to use their brilliant BCS procedure through the 2013 season.

Yeah, why add yet another bowl game? There’s already 34 of them to keep track of, with two new ones just officially recognized.

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