• Our new favorite online destination - THE UGLY BASEBALL CARD BLOG .
• DEUCE OF DAVENPORT gives a toast to this clueless Tigers fan, who bought his 7-year-old an alcoholic drink without even realizing it .
• Based on her confirmed cozing-up with Roger Clemens , SIGNAL TO NOISE has some song suggestions for Mindy McCready’s upcoming album .
• Greg Oden bids aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii . May we suggest a side trip to Maui? The scenery is unbelievable .
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• Jason Taylor is still alive on “Dancing With The Stars” - and he’s using ESPN THE MAGAZINE to tell you how he’s doing .
(Taylor likes what he sees in dance partner Edyta Sliwinska )
• What to do when your team’s not in the NBA playoffs? Well, COLLEGE ON THE RECORD catches Greg Oden partyting down at Penn State .
• Redskins TE Chris Cooley reminisces to SHUTDOWN CORNER about how his own draft day went .
• DEADSPIN cuts to the chase, as Terrell Owens has been cropped out of an incriminating photo .
• PRO FOOTBALL TALK reports that the NFL has reached a deal with videophile Matt Walsh .
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• GAME ON via COLLEGE HOOPS JOURNAL lays up a clip of Davidson star Stephen Curry chatting it up with Conan O’Brien .
At least Stephen should feel better knowing he lost to the national champs.
• Although he has yet to hit the court for the Blazers, the OREGONIAN learns that Portland fans are already singing Greg Oden’s praises - literally .
• THE WORLD OF ISAAC offers up a load of diaper dandies, as they present their top 10 ridiculous Dick Vitale moments .
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• THE ANGRY T serves up a shot of tennis temptresses Maria Sharapova & Anna Kournikova together at last :
• With minor league baseball (and the between-inning promotions) underway, COMMOTION hopes they can catch a t-shirt shot by these guys .
• FOOD COURT LUNCH has the update you’ve been waiting for - of the world women’s curling championship .
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• Hideki Matsui , collector of wedding bets & even bigger collector of porn .
• Tim Tebow was able to tantalize Lee Corso & crew to come down and cover the Gators’ spring practice game .
• No bones about it, skeletons were discovered during digging for the London Olympics.
• A collegiate catfight may have been caused by couple of gals claiming an assistant coach .
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Recovering from serious knee surgery and with his Portland Trailblazers out of the race for the playoffs, Greg Oden did the sensible thing, and played pickup basketball earlier this week at a Portland gym.
How do we know this? From a post on BaseketballForum.com . Lest you think it’s isn’t true, the Blazers apparently were alerted to the internet rumor, and it turned out to be correct.
Now Greg Oden is, as you might expect, in some hot water with the team. Read more…
He successfully solved the crisis of high school baskeball players taking jobs away from hard-working, American and European blue-collar-with-white-trim ballers. And now NBA commissioner David Stern wants to take that one step further. Well, 12 months further, at least.
(If Stern gets his way, these guys wouldn’t have been draft eligible this past year. Well, okay, Greg Oden still would have been.)
YAHOO! SPORTS’ Kelly Dwyer has no quarrel of the possible rule change that Stern hinted at in a brief interview with TIME MAGAZINE a couple weeks ago. Read more…