ANYONE GOT SOME DUCT TAPE?
Mark Cuban is so full of himself…The reject has banned bloggers from the Mavericks locker room because he doesn’t take the time to read anyone else’s blog aside from his own. Cuban wrote on his blog: “I want to treat them all the same. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough room to allow any and all bloggers in the locker room. There also are no standards that I have been able to come up with that differentiate between bloggers to the point where I should or should not credential one versus the other.” Huh? There are so many things wrong with what he said that it would take me days to write it all out.

TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott exchanged emails with Cuban and seems to have addressed the issues- Abbott: “If a blogger had $100[M] they could start their own paper, and according to your rules, make it to the locker room. And I’m not sure you can demonstrate that newspapers, with all their standards, are more accurate than the best bloggers. The only difference is the platform.” Cuban responded: “We have to set limits somewhere, right? Should every blogger be allowed in? And when there are 25 of them, how do we decide who gets in or not? If they need access to a player, they can get an interview. It just won’t happen in a locker room.” Seriously Mark Cuban, for someone I thought was smart, you just hit every idiot branch while falling ouuta the tree.

THANK YOU ANDY

I really don’t care what his reasons are, I’m just happy to hear that Andy Roddick will skip the Beijing Olympics. He didn’t mention anything about Darfur or the air quality, just that he’d rather defend his title at the Washington Classic, which is held the same week as the Olympic event.

VERDASCO MAKES THE ROUNDS

It always makes me laugh when I see “star-struck” hotties…case in point, ATPer Fernando Verdasco making the rounds during the Raptors/Lakers game.

JOHN DALY LIKES TO DRINK?
What the hell is everyone so surprised about? Why this unfair bitch-slap of John Daly? So Daly’s swing coach fires him because he claims Daly is more interested in drinking than improving his game. Really, Daly likes to drink?

According to various reports Daly missed his pro-am time at the Arnold Palmer Invitational one day after he was fired by his swing coach. Harmon said he worked with Daly three times this season, including at the PODS Championship, where Daly spent a 2 1/2-hour rain delay drinking and signing autographs inside the Hooters “Owls Nest” corporate tent. Drinking during a rain delay? Surely he must have done something worse than that…oh wait…there it is-…”signing autographs, including one on the back of a woman’s pants.” God bless ‘em…seems to me that the good old boys ain’t too happy about one of the least attractive men in golf getting all the Owl to himself…if this were Villegas, Scott, Haig or another fine-ass golfer, they wouldn’t be screaming foul, they’d be in the tent drinking with em.

That’s all I got for ya today…its about 80 degrees outside and mama needs a tan.

As always, thanks for reading.
delinda@athlebrities.