In my opinion it seems like a good name for a band, but others are up in arms over Texas Tech coach Mike Leach and his remark on Tuesday about members of his team being distracted by their “fat little girlfriends.” Will Leach have to apologize to girlfriends everywhere over his remark — especially the fat, little ones?

Not if Mark Mangino can help it. The Kansas coach came to the rescue of his colleague late Tuesday and demanded that the PC police, and fat people everywhere, lay off his friend. But then, a startling revelation …

Mike Leach and Mark Mangino had slumber parties together? And watched Howard Stern? Yes, it’s apparently true. The shocking details following the jump. Read more…

Not only is their campus ruled by warring athletes, but the University of Kansas also has roving gangs of vicious attorneys who will inflict even worse pain if you cross their path. The owners of JOE-COLLEGE.COM found out about that the hard way on Monday.

(If Larry Sinks pokes his head out of his store and sees his own shadow, there will be six more weeks of litigation)

That’s when a federal judge ruled that Larry Sinks and Clark Oth, owners of the sports apparel store and web site, were guilty of trademark infringement. They must pay Kansas Athletics Inc. $667,507 in attorney fees and expenses from the case involving their KU-themed T-shirts. Yikes. Read more…

• The new Cowboys Stadium opens with a couple of embarrassing picks, courtesy of Tony Romo & Jerry Jones.

• Well, at least the fans had fun inside the new digs in Dallas - unless you had a “party pass” but weren’t allowed in.

• An angry Oregon fan wants his travel expenses back after watching the Ducks get plucked in Boise. So UO coach Chip Kelly sends him a check.

• Floyd Mayweather Jr. delivers a verbal beatdown to Max Kellerman during Floyd’s post-fight interview.

• This week’s sports Twitter craziness comes courtesy Redskins LB Robert Henson, Larry Fitzgerald’s younger brother Marcus, and Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema.

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Interesting to note in the aftermath of the campus brawls between players from the Kansas basketball and football teams, hoops coach Bill Self has been extremely contrite, while football coach Mark Mangino has been nothing of the sort.

(Sadly. Self will be allowed to sweep everything under his the rug)

The KANSAS CITY STAR reports late Thursday that three KU hoops players, Tyshawn Taylor, Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich, were made by Self to “explain themselves to reporters.” Of course, nothing worthy of note came out of those explanation, but I’ve got it on very good authority who the true antagonists were.

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• Rock Chalk Jayh…POW! Fights break out between football and basketball players for the University of Kansas - and some claim that a couple of n-bombs were dropped.

• An Iowa inmate gets let out of jail for the day so he can go see the Red Sox play the Royals in person.

• Two Costa Rican paparazzi are suing Tom Brady for being shot at during his wedding to Gisele. Brady’s reaction? “I go no reaction to that one.”

• Flummoxed by your fantasy football failings? ESPN is offering to help the old-fashioned way - with a toll-free phone number.

• When it comes to NCAA sanctions, the BCS schools often get lighter sentences than their non-BCS brethren.

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Thousands or perhaps hundreds of years from now, when aliens sift through the wreckage of the long-extinct human civilization, they will probably find a lot of university press releases. Like Styrofoam cups, these documents will never decompose, and, sadly, will bear little resemblance to the events that actually occurred here.

(Sherron Collins and Darrell Stuckey … it’s all cool!)

Take today’s press release from the University of Kansas, which purportedly announces a truce between warring factions of the Jayhawks football and basketball teams. It was authored, supposedly, by player representatives from both teams; Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich of the basketball team, and Kerry Meier, Todd Reesing, Jake Sharp and Darrell Stuckey of the football team. Coaches met with players this morning and supposedly everyone hugged it out (sound of knives and other weapons clattering to the floor as they hugged). Read more…

You might recall that earlier today, we told you about a fight between the Kansas football and basketball teams, one that ended with star guard Tyshawn Taylor in the ER with a dislocated thumb. Okay, so fight fight fight, and now everything’s over, right? Christ, no.

(It’s usually a good sign if your athletes are awaiting questioning, right?)

Surprisingly, the two teams aren’t willing to let it end like that, as KU Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo broke out in the middle of campus this morning, in plain view of the public. And while we don’t know what started the whole thing this time around, we do know the racial slurs probably didn’t help anything.

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It’s a known fact that men will engage in any number of ridiculous behaviors on account of a woman. Well, straight men anyway, though I suspect the general sentiment holds true even for alternative sexual preferences. We’ll say the most ridiculous things (poems? really?), buy expensive crap, don stupid-looking clothes and try silly grooming products, among other things, all in an attempt to impress and woo the opposite sex.

It’s all patently silly when you stop and think about it, but then when it comes to the opposite sex, thinking often takes a back seat to hormones and, um, more primal urges. That’s gotta be the explanation for why Kansas Jayhawks (basketball) guard Tyshawn Taylor ended up in the hospital last night at the hand of an as-yet-unnamed (we’ll get to that) Kansas Jayhawks football player. Lawrence is such a happy place, fellas. Can’t we all just get along?

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Players like Tim Tebow, Colt McCoy, and Sam Bradford have dominated the quarterback discussion during this college football offseason. And it’s for good reason - the QBs all have a shot at leading their teams to national championships this season (or at least did, before OU crashed and burned against BYU). Interviews with the QBs, especially Tebow, reveal intense, earnest young men who take their duties and leadership seriously. And that’s great - the world needs more role models like them.

(Yes, he did this on purpose.)

But for hundreds of thousands of young adults across the country, being a college student has nothing to do with being a role model for millions of Americans. It means parties, and bars, and having as much fun as possible before entering the world of adulthood. For those students, there is no better role model - none whatsoever - than University of Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing.

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• Erin Andrews wants to put that whole terrible peephole incident behind her - that’s why she’s going on Oprah.

• What better way to get pumped up for the college football season than with our first look at the USC Song Girls.

• Tony Romo’s back with another blonde bombshell, as the Cowboys QB is supposedly smitten with Dallas sports TV reporter Candice Crawford.

• Why should you watch coverage of Kansas vs. Northern Colorado on Saturday? Because Samantha Steele will be working the sidelines.

• Want to tell the Chicago Bears coaching staff that you’d love to make the final roster but don’t know how? Say it with flowers.

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