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The Vancouver Canucks Have A Scouting Report On Your Wife
Here's another gem I missed from the first-round of the NHL playoffs. It seems that the Canucks are not only trouncing St. Louis on the ice, but they also lead in trash-talk opposition research....

The Dislike For Carl Pavano Was Closed-Captioned For The Hearing Impaired
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap More...

Brady's New Wife Reveals Many Things About Their Relationship (And Her Body) In Vanity Fair Interview
Gisele Bundchen gives Vanity Fair a candid glimpse into her new domesticated life as Mrs. Tom Brady. Nude, of course....

Alyssa Milano Admits To Prematurely Hopping On/In Bed With the Carl Pavano Bandwagon
"This was right after he won the World Series. So he was kind of baseball royalty. It was before he came to the Yankees...and became the Carl Pavano you know." [HHR]...

If Billy Donovan Can Be Believed, He's Not Leaving Florida
Despite a Fox Sports Orlando report that his hiring at Kentucky was imminent, Billy Donovan said in a statement today that he's staying at Florida. We think....

Billy Donovan...Headed To Kentucky?
Gillispie is gone. Now rumors have the Florida head coach considering a jump to Kentucky. [Sparty And Friends]...

So That's Why He's On The Cover Of Sports Illustrated
Fields is not Pitt's best 3-point shooter, but he always takes the big shots at the end of games. Fields made a winning 3-pointer to beat Duke at Madison Square Garden last season and made two more clutch 3-pointers in the waning moments when the Panthers beat Connecticut in February....

Kobe Bryant's Maid Was Not A Fan Of All The Dog Crap
A housekeeper is suing Kobe Bryant and his wife, Vanessa, on the grounds that the missus is a raving lunatic taskmaster that would make Cinderellla's stepmother look like a compassionate boss....

Yikes, How Did All Of This Hype Get Into My UFC?
I thought the whole point of a staredown was that you weren't supposed to talk? This lively debate brought you courtesy of Quinton Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans (somewhere, Vince McMahon Jr. is smiling)....

Shaq Politely Requests Stan Van Gundy To Taste His Buttocks
"[ H]e's a master of panic, and when it gets time for his team to go in the postseason and do certain things, he will let them down because of his panic." [ESPN]...

PETA Vs. Canada ... You Knew It Had To End This Way
See, this is where PETA miscalculated rather badly; I would have no problem clubbing a guy in a baby seal costume. In fact, I'd walk several blocks out of my way to do it....

Andy Phillips And The Bizarre Porn Star Police Report
Former Yankee prospect Andy Phillips is considered one of the nicest family men in all of baseball by other writers and his peers. So why has an adult actress filed a police report against him?...

ESPN Is Giving Scott Van Pelt Some Quiet Time (UPDATE)
Last week, ESPN's Scott Van Pelt hammered Bud Selig about the MLB Commissioner's $18.5 million salary.A little too much, apparently: SVP was suspended from his radio show on Monday, according to multiple WWL sources....

Police Capture Wily McNabb Lawn Vandals
Lex Luthor, Professor Moriarty, Dr. Doom ... evil super geniuses all. It's time to add two more names to the pantheon of criminal masterminds: Arizona Cardinals fans Ryan Hanlon, left, and Rex Perkin....

McNabb's Arizona Home Vandalized By Cardinals Fans
Donovan McNabb's off-season home in Chandler, Ariz., was vandalized overnight last week. "Go Cards" and other messages were burned on the front lawn. Quite a thing to learn on Martin Luther King Day....

The Strange, Sad Story Of Evan Tanner
Good piece today in Men's Journal on Evan Tanner, the former UFC champion who died in the desert near Los Angeles last year. [Men's Journal]...

Kyle Vanden Bosch Seeks To Possess Your Soul
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....

Sorry Boys ... Alyssa Milano Is Engaged
Yes, our little Sam is getting married, and strangely, it's NOT to an athlete. Ms. Milano is engaged to (non-sports) agent David Bugliari, so watch your Blackberry Curve for that wedding invite....

Worst Columnist Predictions Of 2008 ... With Gratuitous Jay Mariotti
Sure it made for good copy when Terence Moore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote back in April that "The Falcons just blew it" by drafting Matt Ryan. Did he think that wouldn't come back on him?...

MMA Fighter Justin Eilers Shot Dead in "Domestic Disturbance" on Christmas
MMA heavyweight Justin Eilers was found dead Christmas night in Nampa, ID, with a .45 bullet in his chest....