• The SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS reports the WNBA is imploring fans in a “chain letter scam” to pressure the media into giving the league more coverage by sending press outlets spam emails.

• The EDMONTON SUN reports the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League have formally applied to host a NFL Monday Night game at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.

It is “unclear when the game would come to Canada, but there is some thought around the Eskimo office that it could be as soon as the 2008-09 season.”

• The NEW YORK POST reports in the book “First Class Citizenship”, which will hit retail in October, author Michael Long writes that Jackie Robinson “penned a scathing letter to Dwight Eisenhower, slamming the president for waffling on civil rights issues.”

Robinson mailed the letter after hearing that Eisenhower told the 1958 Summit Meeting of Negro Leaders that “blacks must have patience.”

Robinson’s response to Ike: “On hearing you say this, I felt like standing up and saying, ‘Oh, no! Not again’“.

• IRISH BAIL ON LONGHORNS, AGS, RED RAIDERS IN BIG D: The FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM has the news that Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis is negotiating to play a game at the Dallas Cowboys new stadium “sometime in the next five years“.

The opponent? Not Texas, Texas A&M or even Texas Tech. Try Baylor (yawn). And the game would actually be counted as a home game for the Irish.

• Speaking of amusing and inconsequential, ESPN’s resident on-air drunk (and baseball analyst) Rick Sutcliffe weighed on Barry Bonds earlier this week.

While calling Tuesday’s Giants-Mets game on ESPN, Sutcliffe said “there’s no doubt in my mind” that Bud Selig will be in the building when Bonds breaks Hank Aaron’s record.

He also later added this gem: “To this day, I have never seen a steroid“.