Hockey fans may remember Mark Hardy as a relatively good defenseman who spent 11 years in the NHL, who later became an assistant coach with the Kings.  At least that’s what they remembered him for until today.

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Jay-Z continues to make his case as world’s best Yankee fan.

First, he teamed with Alicia Keys to provide the theme song to last year’s championship run, while pointing out that he has done wonders for the team’s image internationally. He put it a different way, though.

Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game,
shit I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can,

But now, he’s topped that.

JAY-Z IS SUING BIG PAPI!!!

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Apparently.. Broadway Joe.

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Tim Thomas, who is apparently on the Mavericks now (who knew?), got into an altercation with someone at a Denny’s early Wednesday morning.

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In order to pay back his victims, The Feds are selling pretty much all of Bernie Madoff’s belongings.  Some of it, like his Upper East Side Penthouse, is worth millions of dollars.  The rest.. not so much.

The good news? You can wear this handsome satin jacket to opening day at CitiField next year.

Remember Pooh Richardson, the lovably nicknamed point guard for the Clippers and T’Wolves? Yeah… well.. here’s a story:

former Philadelphia police officer is guilty of obstruction and lying to authorities for alerting former NBA player Jerome “Pooh” Richardson to an imminent drug raid. A jury convicted Rickie Durham of warning Richardson about the August 2005 raid in a 3 a.m. phone call.

Richardson called a half-sister and told her to leave the New Jersey house she shared with drug kingpin Alton Coles. The couple was nonetheless arrested hours later.

There’s a joke about assists in there, feel free to come up with it yourself

Rafael Nadal is a handsome man, but officials in Queens request that you please refrain from physically embracing him.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Briarwood resident who ran out onto the tennis court at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium last night and hugged tennis player Rafael Nadal following his U.S. Open’s Men’s Singles match against Gael Monfils has been charged with criminal trespass and interfering with a professional sporting event.

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A few weeks ago, we caught up with former Yankee Kevin Maas, who is doing very well for himself in his post-baseball life.

Well, today, we catch up with Maas’s former teammate, Mel Hall, who is doing, umm, considerably less well:

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Were you a nerd as a child? I was something of a hybrid. Not quite a complete outcast, but certainly not one of the cool kids.

(At this point, it is important to note that any comments that get added to this post about how dopey I was as a child will be authored by people who were in my circle of friends at that time, thus proving that they, too, were little geeks.)

Gym teachers and nerds have a longstanding history of animosity, evidenced most recently by this tale, from Westchester County, NY:

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Someone broke into Tony Parker and Eva Longoria’s house and stole an autographed jersey… a Michael Jordan autographed jersey.

That sounds like a double insult. Yes, I broke into your home, but I don’t want anything with your name on it.