•Three TDs for Ricky Williams? I'd say this is the start of an epic inspirational story in Miami. You know, if the Dolphins weren't 5-5 and going nowhere.

•Keep talking, Mangino. It'll only make things better to say you're giving these kids the parenting their real parents failed at. Maybe, if that parenting includes emotional, verbal and physical abuse, plus eating the entire Thanksgiving dinner before the kids even get a bite.

•Obviously we'll need a few years for perspective, but the Hand of Gaul already places number three on this list of the top ten handballs of all time. Unsurprisingly, Braylon Edwards is nowhere to be found on the list. (Also, it's soccer. I know. Shut up.)

•In more serious soccer news, an English Sunday league player received a yellow card for farting in the referee's face. Had it been another player, he would have gone down like he'd been shot.

•Curtis Granderson is shopping what sounds like the most boring reality show of all time, in which he'd take viewers on tours of stadiums. The "let's explore Comerica Park's outfield" show is a 5-parter.

•Shaq is going to curate an art show. Is there anything the man can't do? Besides play basketball anymore...

•Finally, Georgia's beloved bulldog passed away suddenly at the age of four from heart disease. I'm filing that sentence away in case we need to use it for Baby Mangino.

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Good morning, and TGIFF. Try not to work too hard.

...Is not going to be at Detroit Tiger Curtis Granderson's second annual Celebrity Shoot-Out.

Celebrities with Michigan ties, including Miss America Vanessa Sumthinsumthin, former Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood, and ESPN's resident public sot Dana Jacobson are set to participate as well as current and former athletes.

The game is for a good cause, though, supporting the Grand Kids Foundation, which in turn supports Michigan’s Inner City schools. The game is on January 17th and it looks like tickets are still available. If anyone in the Michigan area will be attending this event, please let me know if you'd like volunteer your paparazzi services for the night.

Help a centerfielder out [The Detroit Tigers Weblog] (Via Baseball Musings)

That is to say: They love wrestling, Guitar Hero and being on the TV.

Detroit Tigers Curtis Granderson and Joel Zumaya were giddy when they got to their ringside seats at Sunday's WrestleMania 23 at Ford Field in downtown Detroit. "Pay for the pay-per-view," Zumaya yelled in his cell phone to his mother. "We're going to be on TV!"

Sure, they were amped about their last practice before Opening Day — Granderson says it went extremely well — but they were more juiced about how they'd be able to see the Undertaker, their favorite wrestler. "He's crazy like I am," Zumaya said of the Undertaker. "No, actually, I'm crazy like he is."

The fact that Joel Zumaya excitedly calls his mother and tells her to buy Wrestlemania on PPV so she can see him in the crowd makes it rather impossible for us not to like him.

Tigers Swap Grand Slams For Body Slames [Detroit Free Press]