• There are reports that Kenyon Martin sent one of his boys into the stands to threaten a fan who was heckling him. You know, I’ve wondered about this.  A long, long time ago, I did a little bit of heckling.  Heckling may even be too generous a word… we’ll just say that I said things to athletes that were not very nice; things for which they would have every right to just fuck me up beyond recognition. And I always had the thought in the back of my head, like, “You know, there’s a chance this guy has friends here… and I am quite clearly in the wrong.” I just kinda wondered if an athlete ever did anything like send one of his boys after a heckler.  Apparently so.

• Gretzky stuff: There’s not going to be anything coming out that will make me say, “Hey, Wayne Gretzky’s a bad guy,” but… the whole thing is still unfortunate. Everything just looks bad. No matter what the actual truth is, it looks like his wife was placing bets for him, and it looks like Gretzky knew a while ago that his assistant coach was running a gambling ring, and it did looks like he did lie about it. It’s too bad. Wayne Gretzky is hockey. And even though there’s a reasonable that he did nothing wrong (or at least too wrong), this will always be tied to his name.

• The Texans have picked up the option on David Carr’s contract, and will be keeping him around for 3 more years. Which means, I guess, that they’ll be drafting Reggie Bush. As much as I’m not a fan of David Carr, it’s the right thing to do. Nothing against Vince Young, who I think will be outstanding, but drafting QBs seems to be a lot riskier than drafting RBs… especially ones as impressive as Reggie Bush. You just can’t leave a superstar on the board… even if your QB sucks. Chances are, the best QB from this draft will be some unheard-of 6th-rounder from Grundle State, anyway… so keeping Carr and drafting Bush is the direction they kinda have to go in.