• Alabama wide receiver Tyrone Prothro contacted by man who failed to register as an agent….while he was still in the hospital with a broken leg last October!
• It looks like Steve McNair is going to be on the move sooner than later. Now, the whole world knew it was coming, but it doesn’t make it right.
• Southern California coach Pete Carroll said emphatically Monday he doesn’t believe the Trojans will have to forfeit games or lose a national championship.
• More trouble at Southern Cal: Southern California linebacker Rey Maualuga has agreed to perform community service and attend anger management classes to resolve charges stemming from an off-campus fight last fall.
• Pete Rose Jr., the son of baseball’s career hits leader, was sentenced Monday to one month in prison and five months of home detention for distributing a steroid alternative to his minor league teammates.
• Grizzlies once again go winless in the playoffs. They were dispatched back to Memphis with a crushing defeat at the hands of the Mavericks. The Mavericks will face the winner of the San Antonio-Sacramento series, which is tied at two games apiece, in the Western Conference semifinals.
• Signing the son of actor Denzel Washington on Monday ensured the St. Louis Rams of making a splash the day after the NFL draft ended.
• A man faces hate crime charges stemming from an alleged assault on Miami Dolphins linebacker Jason Taylor that left the NFL player with a minor injury to one forearm, police said Monday.

It looks as if Ed Nelson, the somewhat unused muscle at the end of Jim Calhoun’s UCONN bench has been playing the wrong sport all these years. After starting out at Georgia Tech and showing some promise as a basketball player, then transferring to UCONN where he became 5 expendable fouls, Ed Nelson has signed a 2 year contract with the St. Louis Rams. He is aware that he probably won’t make the regular season roster, but hopes to make the practice squad to continue to develop his skills. This makes the 3rd TE the Rams have picked up this weekend after taking Joe Klopfenstein and Dominque Byrd in the draft.