Us Magazine reports that Jordin Tootoo (who?) is now dating Kellie Pickler (um…), which I'm only reporting because the chick is hot.  (Okay, lemme do some research — Tootoo plays for the Nashville Predators and is a very, very bad man, while Pickler lost on American Idol but returned to the show with big fake gazongas that Ryan Seacrest totally called her out on.) Anyway:

“We’ve been seeing each other since January, but we kept it under wraps,” Pickler, 20, says in the new issue of Us.  Sparks flew when Tootoo invited the singer—who appeared on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show on May 14 and refused to confirm or deny rumors that she had breast augmentation surgery—to one of his games.  “I am this country bumpkin and he’s an Eskimo,” says Pickler, who plans to visit his central Canada [sic] hometown this summer. “I’m going to build an igloo!”

Aww, that's great.  Who would have thought that A millionaire pro athlete would have ever ended up with a hot, wealthy musician chick?  Sometimes love works in mysterious ways, like that time I paid a $10 surcharge at the ATM just so I could spend another half hour with Mercedes.

Photo of the happy couple from Kellie's MySpace page.  Also: Pickler?  I've never even met her! 

I haven't exactly been paying attention to the hockey playoffs, so I'm just going to rely on the YouTube description to describe the scene here:

after a vicious knee on knee hit by predators forward scott hartnell on sharks forward jonathan cheechoo in game 1, followed by a blatant boarding call by alexander radulouv in game 2 on sharks forward steve bernier, you knew it was only a matter of time before tempers would flare up.

Oh man, did I ever!

this is by far the most exciting series to watch in the 2007 stanley cup playoffs, and if you haven't been watching it, what have you been doing ?

Tough question.  Mostly drinking tallboys of Miller High Life, ordering takeout, then begging the deliveryman to stay and hang out for "just five minutes." Hey, I get lonely. 

Much like the boy named Sue, if you grow up with the last name "Tootoo" you're bound to grow up tough. You're either going to end apartheid or become a hockey enforcer and wreck people's backs and faces, like the Predators' Jordin Tootoo here:

Not only does Mike Modano get his back realigned for hanging with Willa Ford, but Stephane Robidas gets a haymaker and an icy nap for trying to help out the Stars' star. Tootoo's got some quick reflexes and good instincts. He's a junkyard scrapper. He really keeps his head on a swivel, and that's what you gotta do when you find yourself in a vicious cock fight.

(Thanks to hunky reader Jeff for the tip.)