Oh boy, you guys. It’s about to get super dusty up in here.

Kevin Durant further proved that he’s one of the greatest guys on the planet – seriously, he can bounce a ball of a woman’s face and she’ll just laugh – when he joined in the Twitter hashtag campaign #DressNathanOut that some students at Owasso High School in Oklahoma started to get some attention for the their basketball team’s manager, Nathan Mitcham. A special needs student, Mitcham also gained fans in Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood and Johnny Manziel, who all Tweeted the hashtag to help get Mitcham in this past Tuesday’s game against Sand Springs High School.

Based on the outpouring of support and the amazing stories in the aftermath, I don’t think that Mitcham’s playing time was ever in question, but he nevertheless received his coach’s permission to play, and he took the court for the final 3 minutes in Owasso’s 20-point victory that night. And not only did he close out the game, but he also scored 8 points as 2,000 people in a 1,400-capacity arena cheered him on.

God, I love sports so much sometimes.

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YOU'RE ALL LIKE HITLER, YEAH WOOO

Last night’s 45th Annual Country Music Association Awards featured a lot of the usual suspects — Taylor Swift crying about winning an award she expected to win, a touching tribute to Texas Ranger La Boeuf and Darius Rucker turning “and the Blowfish” into a full-blown country music career — but the best parts were when sports guys showed up, because I haven’t gone lifestyle yet and can’t write about The Zac Brown Band on my sports blog.

Erin Andrews usually shows up at these things and is worth a slideshow by herself, but thankfully 2011′s sports content was bolstered by an appearance by Hank Williams Jr., hot off his summer of evoking Godwin’s Law, apologizing-for-things-but-not-really and rerecording songs to make them be about how much he hates ESPN. He appeared and made a few jokes about himself that never turned him into the bad guy, and the Reba-filled audience responded like you’d imagine.

Oh, and David Freese was there, but nobody knew who he was. I thought he was Prince Fielder for like, five minutes.

Anyway, please click through to enjoy Erin Andrews, Hank Jr.’s parody of a parody of a parody and additional Erin Andrews.

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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and receiver Miles Austin spoke with students at Cedar Hills High School in Texas yesterday about the dangers of drugs. One of the students asked the most important question anyone could ever ask about drugs: “Do you have any kids?” Now, to be fair, I assume that the context of that question involved Romo admitting that heavy drug use could cause a man to dump Carrie Underwood for Jessica Simpson. Either way, Romo’s answer shocked the assembly – nay, the universe!

“I got one on the way. My wife’s pregnant.”

That’s right, Admiral Fumbles managed to thread the needle with a laser beam pass to Candice Crawford’s womb. Crawford, of course, is the former Miss Missouri whom Romo wed five months ago. She’s the sister of actor Chace Crawford, whose eyebrows can haunt a man’s dreams for eternity.

But the timing of Romo’s announcement is rather peculiar for nosey media types, since there have been heavy rumors about Simpson being pregnant for 5 years the past few months. Simpson is engaged to former San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints tight end Eric Johnson, but she certainly doesn’t look pregnant to me…

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Nicole Kidman used to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, but after 600 or so years she’s begun to show her age and that’s fine, because we love all kinds of women. Even those whose faces are stretched tighter than a tennis net. On Monday night, the Australian actress and husband Keith Urban, an Australian country music singer, attended Game 6 of the Nashville/Vancouver series in Nashville to cheer on their beloved Predators against the Canucks.

Vancouver scored two goals in the first period to seal the game and the series with a 2-1 victory (4-2 series) and Nicole couldn’t have been more excited about it. Thankfully The Daily Mail was able to document her emotional investment in the matchup so we can all revel in her natural beauty.

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Ladies, when you’re a big country music star, it’s not every day that your man decides to get into a little scrap at work, but that’s what happened. And the images of Underwood taken when that followed when Nashville Predators forward Mike Fisher threw down with Ryan Getzlaf of the Anaheim Ducks really tell a human story. No, that panda with the eyepatch is not part of the narrative. That’s just a little twist I put at the end. It’s better than the ending of Ocean’s 12, but that really isn’t saying much.

Via NESN.

That bombshell to the right is Candice Crawford, fiancé of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and sister of Gossip Girls star Chace Crawford. I’m mentioning her because we glossed over her engagement to Romo last month and I felt bad about that. Romo, of course, had previously been romantically linked to Carrie Underwood (unfairly married to Ottawa Senators centre Mike Fisher) and Jessica Simpson, who is engaged to former NFL tight end Eric Johnson, who I once started on a fantasy squad because Antonio Gates was on a bye. But there’s not excitement among the pretty people, so that can mean only one thing…

Tabloids are reporting that Khloe Kardashian and her husband and Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom are expecting a baby. But according to the Skittles-loving Lamar, there’s no baby on the way. So someone go ahead and put the chains back on the gates of hell for a few more weeks…

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