• Cleveland Browns WR Donte Stallworth is sentenced to 30 days in jail in a plea-bargain agreement in the drunk driving death of Miami Beach pedestrian Mario Reyes.

• The Famous Chicken may soon be nesting down in his retirement coop.

• Exciting times for Michael Strahan - he’s got a Fox “comedy” in the works, and he’s now engaged to Eddie Murphy’s ex.

• Speaking of bad shows, “Joe Buck Live” may not have a bright future - unless you consider foul-mouthed Artie Lange as your program’s savior.

• Soccer star Rio Ferdinand follows Cristiano Ronaldo’s fashion lead.

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It’s been a few years since former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan got divorced from his first wife, Jean Strahan.  In case you don’t remember the damage done to Strahan in that ordeal, let us remind you that Strahan was ordered to give his wife $15 million and hundreds of thousands of dollars in child support because there are only so many diapers you can buy with $15 million.

Since then Strahan has spent his time doing just about anything he can to get some of that money back.  He’s got the job working on FOX’s NFL studio show, and he even has an ill-fated sitcom ready to debut on FOX as well this fall.  Now that he’s starting to recoup some of his losses, for some reason Strahan has now gone out and found another way to lose the money again.

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There’s something in the human endeavor that encourages those successful in one arena to attempt success in a wildly different one.  For example, NFL people can’t stop diving into Hollywood helmet-first.  Jim Brown is the textbook example, but Merlin Olsen and Alex Karros couldn’t resist working in front of the camera.  Michael Strahan owes much to the FTD Florists man.

(Next stop: The Academy Awards)

And now New Orleans head coach Sean Payton wants in on the action.  He wrote a screenplay, you see, and he… wait, he didn’t even write the screenplay?  He had a four-page idea for a screenplay and gave it to someone to write and now CAA is shopping it? That’s how it works? No wonder NFL players want into Hollywood; they work that hard before lunch at the first two-a-days of the year.

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• New Jets QB Mark Sanchez struts his stuff in a new photoshoot for GQ:

• Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger is hoping that Formula One star Lewis Hamilton will soon be driving her to the wedding chapel.

• Nice to see the 1962 Mets show up at Dodger Stadium Monday night.

• Michael Strahan is all set to fill in the gap of Fox sitcom programming.

• Vancouver’s sex workers are getting some tips on how to deal with the upcoming Olympic media onslaught.

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A ton of people have Super Bowl rings, but not everyone gets their own sitcom. So when I read that Michael Strahan scored a lead in a show premiering this fall, I had to think he’s really moving up in the world. Wait, you say it’s a FOX show? How the mighty have fallen.

In “Brothers,” Strahan plays an retired football player named Mike living it up in New York , thereby showing off his range. But you better believe hijinks will ensue. And with the help of his wacky family, Mike will surely teach us all to laugh, and love.

Seriously, read the description and tell me this isn’t going to be just awful.

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The Anquan Boldin vs. the Arizona Cardinals contract situation is getting messier by the day; the latest news is that the team is now “considering” trade offers for their disgruntled star wide receiver. And everyone in the league seems to have an opinion on the situation. The latest personality to weigh in is Michael “Sylvester the Cat” Strahan, and as PRO FOOTBALL TALK notes, he has a simple message for Boldin: shut up and play.

While fulfilling a sponsorship commitment in Phoenix this weekend at the NASCAR Subway Fit 500, Strahan had some pointed advice for the disgruntled Boldin. According to Strahan, Boldin isn’t doing himself any favors by talking to the press about his desire to either get more money or go somewhere that will pay him more money:

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• A new sad wrinkle in the NFL boat ordeal: Survivor Nick Schuyler says his friend Will Bleakley died in his grasp before being washed out to sea.

(Nick Schuyler [L], Will Bleakley [R])

But for some Detroit sports radio hosts, the whole thing is pretty funny.

• The Dallas Cowboys bid toodle-oo to Terrell Owens.

• San Francisco learns you don’t buck horns with badminton badasses.

• Every breath you take, every move you make, Michael Strahan will be watching you.

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Former New York Giant and current FOX football analyst Michael Strahan seems to have a pretty hard time trusting the women in his life. It was found out during a well-publicized divorce proceeding that Strahan had been having his ex-wife’s phone conversations from their New Jersey mansion tapped, and that he’d also put in a high tech video surveillance system in the house that his ex-wife said he put in to spy on her sister.

Michael Strahan is literally tapping that ass

Well now it seems that Michael is not yet finished with pretending to be Jack Bauer. He’s currently dating Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife Nicole Murphy, and it seems Strahan is having just as hard a time trusting her. I mean, why else would he be putting tracking devices in her car?

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TMZ reports last night Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan all “boozed” together at one of my favorite Hollywood haunts (really), The Belmont on La Cienega Blvd.:

(What I need: Pitbull flunky friends like Terry!)

They don’t just show up on Sundays and pretend to like each other — the guys from the NFL on FOX studio team also hit the bars as a team. Terry, Jimmy and Michael Strahan spent Friday night kickin’ it at the Belmont Bar and Lounge in Hollywood. And check this out — Bradshaw even got a female lead blocker on the way out. We’re told the woman in the video is being seriously considered by the Detroit Lions.

Strahan, accompanied by Jay Glazer (who was completely ignored by the TMZ video crew and editorial), was amiable amidst the cam slam. Likewise Johnson. But Bradshaw, check that, Terry Bradshaw’s friends were a completely different story. Read more…

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 to the image today, and notes:

Bizarre discovery by (reader) Matt Harris, who writes: “I was on the Jets web site, looking at illustrations of how the new stadium will look, and one view of the concourse area shows mock fans in jerseys and whatnot — including someone in green Strahan jersey.” Seems like way too many Pennington jerseys too, no? Must be an old illo, but that still doesn’t explain the Strahan thing.

Based on Brett Favre’s fadeout the second half of the season, I think Jets fans would beg to differ on the Pennington point. But the Strahan jersey does smell of a carefully-placed prank by a CGI expert with a softness for the gap-toothed one - and Big Blue of course. Read more…