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- You think Tom Brady spent his weekend sweating the Rapture? Hell no he did not. So what did he do? He spent his weekend at a resort in Mexico, frolicking around a pool on a waterslide with his mildly attractive soulmate, Gisele. Yes, there are pictures. And yes, it's entirely possible to enjoy the lockout without actually SAYING SO.
- Aaron Maybin apparently "looks like a WR" these days. That would be awesome, except he's supposed to tackle people.
- Joel Glazer of the Buccaneers recently talked to ESPN's Pat Yasinskas about the Tampa Bay philosophy, which is something that the team plans on sticking to. Or, to put it a better way, "fundamentally we want to stay disciplined in building our team internally."
- It appears as if the Bears are fully on board with starting rookie Gabe Carimi at left tackle to begin the 2011 season.
- Because you need more reasons to be excited for the 2011 quarterback situation in Washington with John Beck, Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post has a collection of pictures featuring Beck with dead animals.
- Tim Carmody takes a great look at modern sportswriting at the Nieman Journalism Lab. I can't fathom how he failed to mention the great steps being taken by many major media companies to hire handsome, charming, funny bloggers. *Ahem.*
- Mark Ingram is totally cool with sharing the New Orleans backfield with Twitter master Reggie Bush.
- Tom Zbikowski's next opponent has been announced. He'll fight Mike Howell on June 4 in the Staples Center. Moving on up, son!
- Roddy White's cousin was arrested. I didn't even realize this until White started tweeting about how unhappy he is with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for bothering him about the whole business.
- Braylon Edwards has sold his condo in New Jersey, packed his bags for Michigan and started asking Mark Sanchez if the Jets are going to re-sign him. Because, you know, Sanchez actually is in charge of the team's front office and talks to them all the time during the lockout.
