Obligatory Sports Babe

This morning, for no particular reason, except that she was near the top of the page on Busted Coverage, we’ll go with Alisha Lucik of the Los Angeles Temptation of the Lingerie Football League. Well… I guess that she’s hot is a decent enough reason.

There’s No Place Like Dome

“If a team can tailor its personnel and strategy to the indoors, NFL experts say, an explosive offense can result,” says the Wall Street Journal, making one of several silly points for doing away with domed stadiums in the NFL. “With no crosswinds, precipitation, temperature variations or unreliable footing, an offense based on timing, sharp cuts, precise routes and speed can reach remarkable heights.”

MLB Collusion Grievance Still Possible

According to an Associated Press report, major league “players and owners have agreed to push back the deadline for a collusion grievance over last winter's free agents until the end of this offseason.” There was a huge “correction” in the money being paid to many free agents last winter, leading to much speculation that owners were colluding with each other to drive prices down. “Agents for players have been asking the union for several months to file a grievance,” the report says.

A Feaster For The Senses

Fantastic stuff from our very own Hockey or Die!—and I’m not just saying that because I’ve owned Tomas Vokoun for years in my keeper hockey pool—who take ex-Tampa GM Jay Feaster to task for his latest column at The Hockey News, where he expresses his relief at never having pulled the trigger to acquire the Panther’s goaltender. “Feaster’s a bright hockey guy in a lot of ways, but he obviously doesn’t have a clue about goaltenders,” they say. “When a G.M. of the defending Stanley Cup champions runs out John Grahame, Marc Denis and Johan Holmqvist as his starters for three successive seasons and then applauds himself for not acquiring Tomas Vokoun, is there another possibility?”

Redskins Still A Team

“Washington Redskins head coach Jim Zorn held a press conference Sunday to reassure fans that, despite an inability to effectively execute their offense, defense, or special teams, the Redskins were still somewhat comparable to a real football team,” says the Onion, nailing it as usual. "It's been a tough season so far, and even though we are 2-4, we still have players, uniforms, Motorola headsets—all the components that technically constitute an NFL team, sort of," Zorn said while grimacing and making a "so-so" gesture with his hand.

Freaky!

Have you ever dreamed this man??? I totally have!!!!

Riley Cote: Tattoo Artist

Flyers tough guy Riley Cote is, apparently, something of a tattoo artist. Here we have, via The Sporting Blog and Puck Daddy, video of him tattooing a Flyers logo on a listener of a Philadelphia morning radio show.