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And they’ll never run out of good stuff like this…

–Maria Sharapova will honor New York City with her U.S. Open outfits. (Houston Chronicle)

–Are Baron Davis and Teri Hatcher through? (Larry Brown Sports)

–The Diamondbacks are going to have the grandest scoreboard in all of baseball. (Arizona Republic)

–Outhitting Barry Bonds in high school can help you get free beer. (Deuce of Davenport)

–NBC has an earth shattering marketing slogan for this year’s football season. (Five Tool Tool)

–There’s money to be made on baseball’s postseason awards. (Epic Carnival)

–The Australian Football League has a drug problem and a television network problem. (With Malice)

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Just in case you needed proof that Barry Bonds has been in the news too long, Morning Buzz shows us that the New York Post is reusing old Bonds ideas. Hey, it’s not like they had 14 months to think of a new idea for the #756 issue…oh wait, yes they did.

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(Every week there are a number of stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. These are just a few of them.)

Dmitri Young in on the verge of signing a 2 year, $10 million extension with the Washington Nationals. Once Young signs the extension the team will get to work on signing a 2 year extension with McDonald’s to provide Young’s special post-game buffet.

In light of the accusations against referee Tim Donaghy, the ACC announced that over the last year it has performed background checks on officials for three different sports. The league found that with the exception of the standard cheating for Duke basketball, none of the officials have ever done anything to raise a red flag.

Ted Ginn Jr., the 9th overall pick in the NFL draft, has finally agreed to terms with the Dolphins. The reason it took Ginn so long to sign was that his agent had to do extensive research to confirm that the Dolphins had in fact been dumb enough to select Ginn with the 9th pick.

Nearly a year after being diagnosed with cancer, Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester returned to the mound and pitched the Red Sox to a 6-2 victory. Lester says that he found motivation in a hand written note he received from fellow cancer survivor Lance Armstrong. Apparently Lester felt that if Armstrong could do something as improbable as win seven Tour De France’s without being caught doping his blood, then there was no reason he couldn’t beat cancer.

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It’s a good idea to do certain things if your city is set to host the Olympics. These things include building new stadiums, hiring proper security, and ensuring that the public transportation is adequate. Also, it’s probably a good idea to make blood doping illegal.

With the 2012 Olympics just five years away London may soon join the anti-doping party. The leading medical adviser to the Games, professor Arne Ljungqvist, has recommended to the London 2012 organizers that they press the government to make doping a criminal offense. Ljungqvist believes that unless legislative changes are made, it will be significantly easier to cheat at the London games than it was at past Olympics.

Because possession of doping substances is illegal in Italy, last winter police were able to conduct a raid of Austrian rooms in Turin that uncovered a full scale doping laboratory. Under the current laws in England, police would not have been able to conduct that raid.

It’s good to see London in finally getting with the program. I lived there for five months and I can tell you nothing is more annoying than walking through the park and getting harrassed by 10 street vendors trying to sell you EPO.

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