Folks, I’m just as baffled as you. A stand-up guy like Tim Hardaway wants to help coach his former team, the Miami Heat. And he’s having a devil of a time getting that callback interview.

Hardaway spoke to the PALM BEACH POST to express his frustration toward the situation: “for some reason, I don’t know why, I’m not able to be with them. … I don’t know what’s going on there” Read more…

Gianni Wilson of GOAL.com reports this week that a former longtime general manager of the storied Italian Juventus franchise, Luciano Moggi, said of gays playing professional soccer: “I know the football world and its insides. You cannot live within it as a gay. A homosexual cannot be a footballer.”

(Banned Italian soccer GM Luciano Moggi’s next stop: Tehran?)

Moggi, who is currently serving a five-year ban for his involvement in match-fixing, somehow found a way to top that comment with another remark that sounds like it came straight from the bowls of a Meccan Mosque. Read more…

No crosstown trips necessary for USC football fans - for now.

• In case you didn’t know, Roger Clemens was in Washington today.

• Those crazy Chris Berman clips have been booted off YouTube.

• Is Michael Wilbon swiping NBA All-Star ideas from bloggers?

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Tim Hardaway showed up on 790 The Ticket’s Dan Le Batard Show on Wednesday, returning a year after his last appearance caused quite a stir.

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The last time Hardaway was on Le Batard’s show, the ex-NBA’er went off on a anti-gay rant when asked about John Amaechi coming out. Tim had eventually told the listening audience, “I hate gay people.”

But 12 months and one car wash loss later, Hardaway says he’s a changed man. Read more…