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.

I wouldn’t say I’m a devout follower of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, but the Green Man thing is so stupid that it’s brilliant. And it’s even weirder when two of them are in the same place at the same time. And things get even MORE bananas when they’re taunting Dave Scatchard from the Nashville Predators, who’s just some poor hockey player stuck in the penalty box. That’s two minutes of fun that he should be grateful for. –Colt Monday.

Preseason in the NHL seems like a dangerous place to be; you’ve got guys that are willing to do whatever it takes to get on the roster for the big club. Take Tommy Sestito, a 21-year-old career minor league guy who decides to go right after the big dog, taking on noted Inuit/badass Jordin Tootoo in the first period of a preseason game on Saturday. And as you can see from the video, Tootoo gives Sestito a little bullrush there at the end and the New Yorker cracks his head on the ice. Tootoo has come under fire for his role in the fight.

“It’s not a good sight to see. Something like that is pretty dangerous,” Tootoo said. “Obviously my intention wasn’t to bang his head off the ice. Fortunately, I got a hold of him after the game to see how he was doing and it sounds like he’s on the road to recovery…I just apologized for what happened and told him my intentions weren’t to do what happened there and that was it.” via.

Results for Sestito’s CT scan haven’t been found in the press, but one SI columnist has already cited in the incident for the latest “Fighting Is Bad” column. And I’m not saying it is or it isn’t, but I’d like to see the NHL decide whether they’re going to handle disciplining dangerous play or let the players do it themselves. Fighting does have a place in pro hockey, a function, but it’s a function on which the league needs to stop meandering. Either let the players police their own or do it for them. Only time will tell from which hand Jordin Tootoo will find retribution served. If any.

arrested February 15th and charged with driving under the influence.  Of course, in typical NHL fashion, it's not nearly as exciting as your average sports-related DUI.

…a police officer clocked him going 51 mph in a 35-mph zone in his 2006 Range Rover. Police reports said the officer noticed Legwand's eyes were bloodshot, his speech slurred and he smelled of alcohol. Legwand said he had attended a concert. He refused a breath test and was charged with driving under the influence.

He was speeding, but it wasn't reckless speeding (in fact, if I can channel Stephen A., it was wreckless speeding).  And then he actually refused the Breathalyzer!  Only smart people do that!  What the hell, hockey?  You've got a chance to prove that your athletes are just as out of control and careless as any other sport's, and then one of your players goes and does something not-very-stupid like this.  Heck, he probably won't even be convicted.

Trust me, it's going to take a lot for hockey to recover from this non-shame.  We need to start a movement to make the NHL edgier.  I'm going to see if TaseSidneyCrosby.com is registered yet.

A while back I wrote a post about some hockey player named Jordin Tootoo dating some blonde chick with awesomely fake cans.  Well, the story comes full-circle, as With Leather has learned (from commenter Upstate Underdog) that the two broke up after Tootoo cheated on her. :(

While performing in Michigan on Sept. 22, concertgoers say, Kellie told the crowd that Jordin cheated on her, so her theme song now is Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats."  While she joked that she hoped his teeth were knocked out during that night's game, her attempt to laugh through her pain didn't last long: She cried onstage while singing "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You."

What the hell is her problem anyway?  Sports stars are allowed to sleep with any chick they want to.  Rules aren't for athletes, they're for ugly common people like you and your parents.

Not quite retired former tennis star Mark Philippoussis, 31, made his big decision on last night's finale of NBC's "Age of Love," the reality show in which Philippoussis had to choose between "kittens" in their 20s and "cougars" in their 40s.  With his final two winnowed down to Amanda Salinas, the incredibly dumb and boring 26-year-old with a body that could make boiled spaghetti hard, and Jen Braff, a moderately interesting 48-year-old MILF who looked a dozen years younger, Philippoussis shocked the world by… selecting the younger chick he wanted to bone more.

Interestingly, both of the final two women came to the show from sports-related jobs.  Amanda was a dancer for the Nashville Predators, and Jen is an assistant to LA Lakers owner/drunk driver Jerry Buss.  And while Amanda's terrifyingly shiny forehead weirded me out the entire episode, Jen came off as the only person on the show who was remotely interesting.  Not that she had much competition.  I've sat through physics lectures that were more interesting than Philippoussis.  Well, okay, so I've never taken a physics class.  But I got pretty good at the ball-and-cup game, which is pretty much the same thing.

In conclusion, looks matter and all women should be as hot as Jen at the age of 48.