I didn't think anything that Bob Costas did would ever make Page six, but apparently I was wrong. The NY Post spotted Costas and his wife at dinner recently, with some interesting guests....

ALEX Rodriguez and Kate Hudson are going strong. The couple joined Bob Costas and wife Jill Sutton after Sunday's Yankees win over the Blue Jays for dinner at Scalinatella on East 61st Street. "A-Rod and Kate were holding hands and whispering in each other's ears the whole time," says our spy. "They definitely looked every bit together." Two nights before, the lovebirds were in a party of 11 at Serendipity 3.

Well that's an interesting pairing now, isn't it? It definitely seems strange, especially when you consider Costas was one of the first people to interview and defend Selena Roberts, but you've gotta do what you gotta do to get that in, I guess.

A-ROD, KATE HUDSON GOING STRONG (NY Post)

A-Rod has dealt with a lot of gossip over the past few months. While most of it has been justified, some of it has been pure speculation. One of those rumors appears to be the possibility that Rodriguez tipped/tips pitches to teammates, and at the forefront of those rumors is ESPN's Rick Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe recently said that he believed A-Rod was sending signals to Mark Teixeira, and the two decided to confront the analyst last night. Via Newsday....

Hours before they were to do battle with the Red Sox Tuesday night, Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez were involved in different type of confrontation, this one inside the Yankees' clubhouse.

Upset with an accusation made by ESPN's Rick Sutcliffe two weeks ago, the two players approached the former Cy Young winner to discuss the situation.

Sutcliffe said on the air that A-Rod had been feeding Teixeira verbal signs from the on-deck circle, giving his teammate a heads-up on the catcher's location before the pitch was delivered. Teixeira and A-Rod pulled Sutcliffe aside when they saw him in the clubhouse last night, expressing their displeasure with his charges.

"Me, Alex and him talked about it," Teixeira told the Daily News, confirming that the conversation took place. "No doubt it's disappointing when someone makes an accusation like that. Whatever. I can't control what they say."

I would caution any person to take what Sutcliffe says seriously, because he's borderline crazy, but they have every right to defend themselves. Sutcliffe also needs to learn to keep his mouth shut, especially if he's making accusations like this.

Accusations bring A-Rod, Mark Teixeira to tipping point (Newsday)

The audio and video were a bit off on the MLB Network's simulcast, but you can get the general idea. Nothing that groundbreaking was said, but it still might be worth a viewing. Basically, A-Rod is still sorry, he got the drugs from his cousin and took them two times a month and he plans to work with an organization founded by a father who lost his kid to steroids. Here's the beginning of the press conference, when A-Rod issued his statement. There were a handful of good questions from the reporters on-hand in the next 30 minutes or so, and I'll try to add those in once I go through them all.

Update: Here's a trimmed down version of the questions....

I don't know what new information could come out of an A-Rod press conference, but the admitted steroid user will speak to a horde of media members in Tampa today at 1:30pm. The Yankee will speak to anywhere from 150-300 media members, will be joined by his fellow teammates, and the presser will be aired on YES as well as being simulcast on ESPN and the MLB Network. Here's what the two national networks have planned.

ESPN: ESPN’s daily SportsCenter will present live coverage of the Alex Rodriguez press conference tomorrow (Tuesday) at 1:30 p.m. ET from Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla.

ESPNEWS will present the entire press conference, beginning its coverage at 1 p.m. with highlights of last Monday’s Peter Gammons-Rodriguez interview. It will re-air the press conference during the 4 p.m. and 7 p .m. hours. Hannah Storm and Bob Holtzman will report live from Tampa. ESPN Radio will also cover the press conference within its Tirico & Van Pelt show (1-3 p.m. M-F) with co-hosts Mike Tirico and Scott Van Pelt.

MLB Network: MLB Network today will air live coverage of the Alex Rodriguez press conference at the Yankees’ Spring Training facility in Tampa, beginning at 1:00 p.m. ET. MLB Network’s coverage will be anchored by Greg Amsinger along with Harold Reynolds, Barry Larkin and Billy Ripken, and will include reports and reaction from Jon Heyman and Joe Magrane, who are both in Tampa.

Wait....Billy Ripken? I didn't even know that he was a part of the MLB Network. I guess you learn something new everyday. As far as the press conference goes, I'll try to have video up later in the day for those of you who want to see it, but I'm certainly not looking forward to it.

This could very well be LeAnne Schriber's last column with the "Leader", but at least she had a lot to talk about. The Ombudsman tackled all things A-Rod, and more importantly, the Peter Gammons-Larry King talk....

My own assessment is that Gammons asked the hard questions -- Did you take steroids? For how long? Where did you get them? Did you lie to Katie Couric? -- but that after getting Rodriguez' opening admission of guilt, he did not press hard enough when Rodriguez gave evasive or self-serving answers to the what/where/when/why questions. I also think Gammons' lack of follow-up was attributable, in large part, to his genuine sympathetic engagement in the human drama of what the viewer somewhat cynically called "Rodriguez's first step toward personal redemption."

Gammons told me, as well as other interviewers, that he was stunned by Rodriguez' admission that he had taken banned substances for three years.

"When I talked informally with Alex the night before," Gammons said, "I got the impression he was going to say whatever he tested positive for in 2003 was related to prescription drugs he had taken for a back injury in spring training."

When Gammons returned the next day for the interview -- which Rodriguez had first rescheduled from Sunday night to Monday morning, and then postponed again to early that afternoon -- he was prepared, with input from several ESPN producers and reporters, to do a more prosecutorial interview than the one that transpired. But Rodriguez offered his unexpected admission of guilt after the first question, and, Gammons says, "Obviously, there was a shift in direction."

"I realized right away that this was the first surefire, by his performance, Hall-of-Famer to admit this," Gammons said, "and therefore I thought keeping him talking, and getting as much as I could out there, was very important. I really felt my first duty was to get his words onto my employer's network."

Interesting. I still think Gammons did a fine job, but this certainly sheds some light on his mindset during the sitdown. It's always hard to conduct something like this under so much scrutiny and pressure, and you usually get a sense of revisionist history after the fact, but people criticizing Gammons should just give it a rest.

Gammons/A-Rod was no Frost/Nixon (ESPN)

The weirdest thing that came out of the Alex Rodriguez admission interview on ESPN, certainly wasn't anything about steroids. No, it was the claim by Rodriguez, that SI reporter Selena Roberts, broke into his building and was "stalking" him. Well apparently that was a lie because according to Newsday, A-Rod has called Roberts and has apologized for said claim....

This comes to us from the good folks at CNN, who sent over a transcript of today's "Reliable Sources" show in which host Howard Kurtz blurted out -- I mean reported exclusively -- that Alex Rodriguez called Selena Roberts and apologized for bashing her in his ESPN confession/interview on Monday.

Here's the part of the transcript about that:

KURTZ: Well, you know, Selena Roberts, who's a former "New York Times" reporter, I am told -- and I can report this exclusively -- that after that interview Alex Rodriguez called her to apologize.

Nothing more was said of it on the show.

Awww, that's sweet. You claim someone unlawfully entered you domain, stalked you, and you give a quick apology. That's nice. Glad that's all cleared up.

BREAKING NEWS: Alex Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod, said to have apologized to Selena Roberts (Newsday)

Now this all makes sense. Why did A-Rod decide to go with ESPN as his interviewer following the news that he did steroids? Well because ESPN is using him to promote their coverage of the World Baseball Classic. I honestly wish I was kidding. ESPN and ESPN2 are carrying 23 games of the Baseball tournament this March, and along with Jorge Cantu, Ichiro and Derek Jeter, A-Rod will be one of their marquee names in advertisements starting this Saturday....


It is certainly possible that these ads were long in the making, but even so, don't you think ESPN would have pulled the Rodriguez ones? Seems far too convenient if you ask me. Oh, and tell me that quote they used for him, doesn't piss you off even more? I'm just about done with Baseball.

I personally thought Peter Gammons did a great job in his interview with Alex Rodriguez, but some people are not agreeing today, namely Sports Illustrated. SI writer Jeff Pearlman has criticized the ESPNer for not sticking up for Pearlman's co-worker, Serena Roberts, and Gammons is now apologizing for not doing so. Via an email to Deadspin....

I think in retrospect, I should have interrupted the Arod rant. My first question asked if Selena's story were true, he essentially admitted it was, and I believed she was therefore vindicated. I usually don't get into grudges, and felt he was promoting her book, which will be her response. I was trying to get Alex in his own words, but Jeff's criticism has merit that I accept.

Pearlman called Gammons the "Larry King of sports", and while I think that's a little harsh, I can sort of see how some would feel that way. The only problem is that both MLB (who has a new deal with ESPN), and Scott Boras, probably were all over the questions that were asked, and ESPN obviously wanted to be delicate with the piece. That's obviously not an excuse to avoid getting to the bottom of things, but it might explain the tone a bit more.

Oh and one more thing. I know it's slow now that Football is over, ESPN, but good lord! I've seen this damn interview about 40 times now!!! There was some Basketball played yesterday right? Hockey perhaps??? I know what will get us to forget about all this A-Rod nonsense. PETTTTTERRRRRR GAMMMMMMONNNNSSSS!

Ah...that's better.

Peter Gammons is the Larry King of sports television (Jeff Pearlman)
Peter Gammons Regrets Not Sticking Up For Roberts (Deadspin)

I thought ESPN was a little bit off in airing the meat of the piece earlier in the day, but there are a ton of other interesting parts in the full version. Some of which are: It was a 30-minute interview (!), A-Rod denies taking steroids in High School, he also denied that he knew what the drugs were, and finally saying that SI's Serena Roberts stalked him and tried to break into his house.

Obviously, due to the length, I had to break it up into three parts, but here is the entire interview if you want to relive the thirty minute sitdown, or check it out for the first time.

ESPN just aired a brief clip of the Peter Gammons interview with Alex Rodriguez, and while it's not the full one that will be on Sports Center tonight, it seems to be the most important part of the discussion. Here is the video in case you missed it....

"When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day. Back then, [baseball] was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young, I was stupid, I was naïve. I wanted to prove to everyone I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time."- Alex Rodriguez (Via ESPN)

"I did take a banned substance. For that, I'm very sorry and deeply regretful."

So what we now know is that he is admitting to using PEDs during a three-year period with the Texas Rangers, and that he's apparently extremely sorry for doing so. It's still not surprising, but what is surprising is that he actually came clean and admitted to doing so. I don't think many people are willing to forgive right away, especially when you take into account he lied during his 60 Minutes interview, but this was definitely a step he needed to take.

A-Rod admits, regrets use of PEDs (ESPN)

As many times as you've seen the Katie Couric interview these past few days, you knew A-Rod's first interview wasn't going to CBS. Instead, the "Leader" will get Rodriguez's first comments following SI's report on Saturday that stated the slugger tested positive for steroids back in 2003. Via Watchdog....

Alex Rodriguez apparently will not wait long to respond publicly to the revelation over the weekend that he tested positive in 2003 for a performance advancing substance.

ESPN is "finalizing" plans for an interview with Alex Rodriguez, a network spokesman said early Monday afternoon.

It is not clear when that interview would take place - likely sometime later this afternoon - or with whom, but a person familiar with the discussions who declined to be identified said the most likely interviewer would be veteran baseball journalist Peter Gammons, who has a history of being relatively sympathetic to Rodriguez.

Rodriguez was in The Bahamas when the news broke Saturday but he since then is believed to have huddled with his agent, Scott Boras, about how to handle the public relations fallout.

It's now clear when that interview will take place, and with whom, as A-Rod will be sitting down with Peter Gammons within the 2 o'clock hour this afternoon, and the interview will air at 6pm tonight during Sports Center. Scott Boras has obviously been trying to find an avenue to start the PR campaign, and the first step will be taking place on ESPN. I'll be sure to get the video for you as soon as the interview is over.

Update: According to ESPN, via Gammons, A-Rod admits to using PEDs.

ESPN working on 'finalizing' first interview with A-Rod (Watchdog)

There is rarely anything that shocks me in this world anymore, and on a scale of 1-10, A-Rod taking steroids comes in at a .25. Jose Canseco called the Yankee slugger a user in his book "Vindicated", but Rodriguez vehemently denied the allegation. Well today (weird that this broke on a Saturday), SI is saying that he tested positive for the anabolic steroid Primobolan and testosterone back in 2003....

In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.

Rodriguez's name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball's '03 survey testing, SI's sources say. As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004.

When approached by an SI reporter on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez declined to discuss his 2003 test results. "You'll have to talk to the union," said Rodriguez, the Yankees' third baseman since his trade to New York in February 2004. When asked if there was an explanation for his positive test, he said, "I'm not saying anything."

While this isn't surprising, it's not all that damaging to Rodriguez. Steroid use wasn't yet banned in Baseball back in 2003, and the samples tested were supposed to be kept anonymous. Obviously, as we've seen with Bonds, Giambi, etc., that hasn't held true. But as we've seen with Giambi, Pettitte, etc., a little time just makes everyone forget.

It will still taint A-Rod's legacy as a hitter, but I don't think it will hurt him as much as Bonds or McGwire.

Sources tell SI Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003 (Sports Illustrated)

Guitar Hero has sparked a virtual movement (no pun intended) in the video game world and in promoting their latest release, World Tour, they've turned to athletes A-Rod, Tony Hawk, Michael Phelps and Kobe Bryant, for their first campaign.

Paying tribute to the famous lip- and guitar-syncing scene that appeared in the popular film “Risky Business,” each ad will highlight different celebrities jamming on instruments from Guitar Hero World Tour to the song “Old Time Rock and Roll,” performed by Bob Seger. The first commercial, which debuts today, features Kobe Bryant rocking the mic, Alex Rodriguez and Michael Phelps dancing while ripping it up on the exhilarating new guitars, and Tony Hawk sliding in on a skateboard to play the drums. The new commercials are an extension of the “Risky Business” inspired Guitar Hero ads starring American Idol season seven-winner David Cook and runner-up David Archuletta that aired during the American Idol season finale on May 21, 2008.

While it's a very good ad, I just can't stand Michael Phelps anymore. His presence almost ruins the entire thing for me. Still though, while the franchise certainly needs no help, ads like this certainly won't hurt it.

Guitar Hero World Tour Ad (Activision)

Another weekend with not a whole lot of variation. At least we get the Angels though, who we haven't seen much this year, and not the Red Sox. On a side note, I have yet to see a Leo Mazzone game this year. Anyone have any thoughts on him as an analyst they'd like to share?

Here's the schedule....

Saturday:

LA Angels at New York Yankees- Joe Buck, Tim McCarver & Ken Rosenthal (Fox, 3:55pm, 73%)

MARKETS INCLUDE: Albuquerque, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Dayton, Denver, Detroit, Fort Myers, Greensboro, Hartford, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Raleigh, Richmond, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Tulsa, Washington, West Palm Beach

Milwaukee Brewers at Atlanta Braves- Thom Brennaman & Eric Karros (FOX, 3:55pm, 15%)

MARKETS INCLUDE: Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Greenville, Jacksonville, Knoxville, Memphis, Milwaukee, Nashville, St. Louis

Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals- Kenny Albert & Leo Mazzone (FOX, 3:55pm, 11%)

MARKETS INCLUDE: Chicago, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis

Sunday:

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at New York Yankees- Chip Caray & Ron Darling (TBS, 1pm)
Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis Cardinals- Jon Miller and Joe Morgan (ESPN, 8pm)

So reader RB sent me an email telling me that I just HAD to find Gary Thorne and Steve Phillip's conversation about the Canseco book this morning. I searched Red Lasso and finally found it in the Top of the Third Inning and I don't think I've ever been this blown away by an Announcer's idiocy before (maybe Suzyn Waldman).

The talk starts with Gary Thorne mentioning "Jason Giambi's second book", and Steve Phillips corrects him right away. But does that stop Thorne? Of course not....

Okay, let's recap. First, Gay Thorne thinks Giambi wrote the book. Second (after being corrected), jokes about the throw from first to third. And finally, right when you think it's over he says that the two need to have a clubhouse meeting??? Canseco does not play baseball anymore and if memory serves I don't think he ever played First Base.

How clueless can you be? I mean jetlag is a bitch, but that was ridiculous.

I had to double up today because ESPN's Caption for its own article is the funniest thing I've ever read. I don't know if this was intentional or not, but if it was...Hill-Lar-E-Us....

So I was thinking if you might want to caption the caption....Who's up for it??? (God these jokes write themselves....click the photo for the larger version.)


(Head below this post for the other Create A Caption)

Found this one over at CNNSI's Extra Mustard and I have to say it's one of the funniest clips I've seen in quite some time. First Dave is interrupted by Mike and The Mad Dog which is funny in its own right, but the best part comes at the very end......

Looks like A-Rod's off the 'roids. That's a good thing for his new team the Angels (you know he's leaving!)

Dave Does Sports" (Extra Mustard)

This just absolutely blows my mind, but according to Sports Biz, Scott Boras is telling the NY Post and ESPN that his client Alex Rodriguez is worth $500 million dollars over the next 10 years to the Yankees. Darren Rovell had a coversation with Vince Gennaro one of the best Baseball number crunchers in the business, and here's his response....

"A player of A-Rod's stature can have an impact on the value of a team's regional sports network. However, Boras' assertion that he contributes $50 million per year is completely unreasonable. For that to be true, the primary programming would need to be a nightly three-hour talk show hosted by A-Rod and it would need to secure the same 4.7 ratings point on YES that the average Yankee game telecast scored in 2007. More realistically if the Yankees went forward without A-Rod, it's reasonable to expect the team would suffer in terms of wins and losses. Losing seven or eight wins could cost the Yankees nearly a full ratings point, which translates into about $12 million per year in YES revenue. If you add A-Rod's marquee value (same as Boras' 'iconic value'), that could impact the value of the YES Network as an asset to the tune of about another $10 million per year. Keep in mind the Yankees own 36% of YES, so the impact on the Yankees (and therefore the portion of A-Rod's YES Network impact for which they should be willing pay) is about $8 million per year (36% of the total YES impact of $22 million)."

How in the hell does Boras even come up with these numbers, and why hasn't this hurt his bargaining in the past????

Near the end of the season I was going back and forth with my dad about the Orioles. He was telling me that all of the O's players should be traded or sat on the bench for the rest of the season. After first explaining that the trading deadline had passed, I told him that there's no way they would do that because a player (Tejada specifically) with such a large contract is worth more than just what he does on the field. My dad came back with something that I scoffed at at the time, but after this nonsense makes sense. He said, "All of these agents, and TV deals, and player contracts are going to reach a boiling point....and I think that's coming real soon. Sooner or later the fans will be priced out."

After this item from Rovell....I don't think my dad's ever been more right (well maybe the time when he told me not to jump off the top off the house Mary Poppins style with an umbrella and I did it anyway). Seriously, when will Boras lose enough credibility that he hurts his clients more than he helps them.

It's The A-Rod Show! (CNBC: Sports Biz)

Update: Boras contacts Rovell and puts gives his take. The guy knows how to talk that's for sure....

Scott Boras Calls Back (CNBC: Sports Biz)

(posted by OMDQ)

(I'm warning you right now - there's a Goodfellas spoiler in one of the paragraphs below. Although frankly, if you haven't seen Goodfellas by now, you deserve to have it spoiled. Great movie.)

First of all, congratulations are in order for Alex Rodriguez, who finally silenced his critics today with a homerun in his first at-bat against Kyle Davies, the 500th of his career. Everyone is talking about A-Rod passing Barry Bonds for the career homerun record sometime within the next decade, but the column I absolutely can't wait for is the one that tries to explain how Rodriguez's career will turn out just like Jimmie Foxx's (previously the youngest man to 500, Foxx was pretty much done by his mid-thirties) . You know some eternal optimist is working on that as we speak.

With Rodriguez out of the way, the weight of the baseball world falls on the artificially enhanced shoulders of Barry Lamar Bonds (or, as Babes Love Baseball's Sooze likes to call him, Barry Lamar Cheaterface). Barry has been facing a ton of pressure lately, of course, but A-Rod's struggles in New York helped dull the harshness of the spotlight. Now that the Next Homerun King has turned the corner, we can all turn our full attention back to San Francisco.

I was driving home from work today when I heard about Rodriguez's homerun. The update guy on the radio made a joke that since they couldn't play the audio clip until the game was over, we could only guess that it sounded something like this: "[insert crappy John Sterling "Aaaaaaa-Bomb for Aaaaaaaa-Rod" homerun call here]".

This got me thinking. One of the interesting little side stories in this whole "Barry Bonds Homerun Chase" has been the question of how it will be called by whichever play-by-play announcer happens to draw the short straw and is on duty when the historic blast leaves the yard. Joe Buck would be terribly unexcited. Matt Vasgersian would not be pleased. Jon Miller would probably blow a gasket, which I honestly wouldn't mind because I like Jon Miller and think that whatever emotion he shows is genuine, not forced, which makes his work more than a lot of other announcers. But I digress.

I mentioned this topic because when I heard that John Sterling clip, inspiration struck and the perfect call for either of Bonds' next two homeruns popped into my head. I think a little light bulb even appeared in the air.

You know the scene in Goodfellas where Joe Pesci thinks he's about to become a made man, but instead gets a bullet to the back of his head as revenge for killing Billy Batts years earlier? We see the shot, the camera cuts away (to De Niro in the phone booth, I think), then back to the room, where two old Italian hitmen are standing over Pesci's body. The conversation between them goes something like this:

Old Italian Hit Man #1: And that's that.
Old Italian Hit Man #2: Yep, that's that.

That's it. That's the conversation. And you know what? It's an absolutely perfect homerun call for this situation. Personally, I don't mind the fact that Bonds is prettu much guaranteed to break the record. I long ago decided that it isn't worth getting all excited about. Yelling and screaming about it won't change a thing. So my personal plan is to watch when it happens, give my standard response to just about any milestone short of a Red Sox World Series win (standard response: "Cool. Good for him."), and move on with my life. When my kids ask me about Barry Bonds someday, I'll tell them what I saw and let them come to their own decisions about the morality of the situation and whatnot. By then, hopefully we'll have a clearer picture of the entire Steroid Era and what it means to the overall history of the game.

But for the rest of the world, the people who hate Barry Bonds for what he's done to the game of baseball and want to see him banned for life and thrown in prison, could there be a more perfect homerun call than to hear the play-by-play guy say mildly, "So that's that"? I don't think so. You're not dishonoring the moment any further by ripping on Bonds and his contributions to the game, protestations that in most cases come off as contrived and overly planned out (no pontificating from the soapbox, in other words). And you're not cheering blindly for something that happens on the field while ignoring other, more negative, sides to the issue. You're essentially saying, "How should you feel about this? Decide for yourselves." I like it.

So go ahead, play-by-play announcers of the world. Feel free to channel your inner Scorcese and use this call in the event you find yourself behind the microphone when Barry Bonds goes deep for number 756. Trust me, people will love it.

(Usually) Everyday (usually around noon) I'll throw out a photo from the AP or one of the bigger sites and you provide the caption. Hilarity ensues. I'm also adding a handful (or two) of links at the bottom of the page that you should check out each day.

Friday's Winners.....








"Stuart Hamilton of Wiltshire was tragically killed at Carnoustie yesterday by golfer John Daly. The athlete, long embroiled in a war against his own internal organs, misinterpreted Hamilton's "I (HEART) JOHN DALY" sign as an offer for heart donorship and split open the young man's rib cage with his bare hands."- Oops Pow Surprise (Wins on creativity alone)

"The man's arm is hiding the slashes he got from the steak knife of John Daly's wife"- Chiguy23

"What this photo doesn't show is the back side of this sign: "He only hits me cuz he cares!"- Kyle
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Are you funny enough to create a headline for this photo of A-Rod and Barry discussing their "grips"?

Daily Links:

It's the Over/Under that everyone should be paying attention to. (Sports Biz)
Bomb Threats are stopping games now? (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
OJ Stars in his own Video Game (The Hater Nation)
Is this the worst time to be a Sports Fan? (Flyers Fieldhouse)
Soccer Team Starts A Brawl....With Cops. (The Pig Pen)
Scott Olsen's Mug Shot is pretty awesome. (Signal to Noise)
Does Eric Wynalda like anything? (Rumors and Rants)
A Minor League Coach is dead after getting hit by a ball (Nyjer Please)
Which Major League Team has the hottest concession worker? (Epic Carnival)
FBI and Sports....a perfect match. (The Huffington Post)

Finally, I was going to post on this, but everyone's already picked it up. The Newest ESPN analyst is shooting off at the mout about Mike Vick.