One of the most jarring aspects of the Stanley Cup finals, other than the ease with which the Red Wings dispatched the Penguins on Sunday night to push the series to 3-2, has been NBC’s hardball with fans in Detroit and Pittsburgh. For the duration of the playoffs, both teams have been able to hold [...]

• Melissa Rycroft, former Cowboys cheerleader & budding ABC reality TV star, is offered a chance to take off her “Dancing” dress for Playboy.

• The Broncos are finally cutting themselves from Jay Cutler. Any takers?
• Mike Danton, the ex-NHLer jailed for planning to kill his agent, is transferred to Canada, where he’s already up for [...]

According to FoxSports.com, David Ortiz resembles Esther Rolle, the star of the epic TV sitcom Good Times:

One thing I know they do have in common: Rolle died in 1998. Ortiz’s bat died 10 years later.
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It was billed as the biggest face off between supreme big men we’ll see all season, but it never materialized. Instead, Pittsburgh’s first-ever win over a No. 1 team devolved into a one-man gun show, with DeJuan Blair scoring 22 points and pulling down a career-high 23 rebounds in front of 7-foot-3 UConn center Hasheem [...]

The New York Jets have graphic images on their official website of how the new Jets Stadium will look (which they will share with the Giants). Included in those renderings is this production of one of the concourses:

(Wow Mike sure is packing ‘em on. Damn that Chunky Soup!)
Paul Lukas at UNI WATCH posted a link [...]

If the Boston Red Sox were a TV show, they would have been canceled long ago, because everyone would agree that the plot twists have just gotten to zany, too unrealistic, too unbelievable. Basically, they would be the second season of Lost or Heroes (or for you uber-nerds, the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire [...]

DC SPORTS BOG takes aim on Chris Cooley’s tale of the Redskins’ team bus being egged by some overzealous Eagles fans. They also returned home to find a flaming bag of dog poop on the front steps of FedEx Field. Cooley’s tales led radio host and former Redskin Jon Jansen to fondly recall old ladies [...]

• UNCOACHED reveals the best sights seen at last weekend’s NFL Hall of Fame ceremonies – namely, those of the Redskins cheerleaders.

• YOU BEEN BLINDED tosses up a classic clip of Johnny Bench berating a reporter for asking him about Pete Rose.
• DEADSPIN is all shook up, as Elvis takes advantage of the wild, wet [...]

• Better grab your dessert before Yankees announcer John Sterling gets his hands on it – literally.

• The Warriors may have missed out on Elton Brand, but they did capture a Clipper in Corey Maggette.
• Manny Ramirez earns $49.56 just for forgetting to cash a $10,000 check.
• David Cutcliffe is determined to clean up the [...]

Since Shaq’s little rap about Kobe hit the internets, inspiring young children to do the same & creating a new demand in ring tones, other athletes are reconsidering attempts to toss their hat into the hip-hop ring. The latest to step up to the mic is the Big Papi himself, David Ortiz.

BOSTON DAILY lays down [...]