• Looking to get lei’d? Then don’t go to Saturday’s Notre Dame game.

• Could Bill Cowher be convinced to coach the Cleveland Browns?
• Bud Selig is tweaking postseason play, weather you like it or not.
• Eric Musselman may not know if Bill Walsh is still alive, but the ex-NBA coach knows he’s got it good [...]

Earlier this season, UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel had employed a unique tool as a way to see multiple potential recruits play in one night (and impress the hell out of them in the process): flying in on a helicopter. It matched the image of him as an aggressive, on-the-go coach whose high-energy style would [...]

• Greg Patton of the RIVERSIDE PRESS-ENTERPRISE hears Rick Neuheisel thanking UCLA fans for not booing during the Bruins’ bruising by Arizona.

• Baron Davis offers his thoughts & prayers to those affected by the Columbia, SC, plane crash that killed 4.
• BALLHYPE passes along video of David Beckham’s appearance on Sesame Street.
• You know things [...]

Two weeks ago, UCLA kicked off its second Rick Neuheisel era with a stunning, come-from-behind victory over SEC sort-of powerhouse (okay, maybe that’s pushing it) Tennessee. What would they do for an encore? Why, get bombed back to the stone age by a Mountain West team, that’s what. Yeah, that football monopoly in L.A. is [...]

• Need to make it to a high school football game on time? Just do like Rick Neuheisel does – call in the choppers!

• Maybe Vince Young knew what was going to happen when he didn’t want to go back on the field on Sunday.
• Sorry, Chad – no Ocho Cinco game jersey for you [...]

The Rick Neuheisel era at UCLA is off to a pretty good start, as the Bruins are 1-0 after beating the Tennessee Vols last week at the Rose Bowl. A win like that is bound to impress some recruits and, along with those full page ads, maybe steal some thunder away from cross-town [...]

Welcome to the most awkward co-mingling of cultures since those discoverers of bubblin’ crude skedaddled to Beverly Hills and settled in to ruin prime-time television as part of the Backwoods Triptych (”Beverly Hillbillies”, “Green Acres”, and “Petticoat Junction”).  We’ll be working blue tonight… as well as orange… we fear this will never make the Bravo [...]

I would like to confirm breaking news here in Los Angeles. Someone still takes the paper version of the L.A. TIMES. Actually, I haven’t officially confirmed that the guys at GUTTY LITTLE BRUINS pay for the periodical, as I’ve heard there’s freebies to be found under the cigarette machine at Jumbo’s Clown Room (state edition [...]

• THE SPORTS HERNIA shows how excited assistant coach Steve Shuman is about the upcoming WNBA season, based on his media day photo:

• The ST. PETERSBURG TIMES reports that setting new levels of success and beating the Yankees still can’t get Rays fans out to Tropicana Field.
• The ORLANDO SENTINEL tosses news of a Florida [...]

Can’t wait for the day when the daughters of SEC coaches sing about us.
• Here’s all you wanted to know about Carmelo Anthony’s “Extreme” DUI.

At least his gal is enthusiastically standing by him.
• Sure looks like ESPN president George Bodenheimer wants to bar Barack Obama from his network.
• Golfers go under the knife: Tiger [...]