LaVar Arrington is expected to make a full recovery after crashing his motorcycle into a guardrail in Maryland. He was not drinking and was wearing a helmet.

Say what you will about Arrington, at least he waits until nobody wants him anymore to injure himself in a motorcycle mishap. I’m looking at you, Kellen Winslow, Jr.

Remember the days when it would have been a good thing to be called the next Ben Roethlisberger?

• LaVar Arrington Hurt In Motorcycle Crash (KDKA)

Brett Favre reportedly threw a fit over Green Bay’s lack of effort for trading for Randy Moss in last month’s draft - so much so that his agent requested a trade and Favre had to be talked down by head coach Mike McCarthy.

Ouch. Way to show confidence in your guys. Maybe Donald Driver should demand a trade based on no confidence in Favre - every year it’s a wait-and-see game to find out if he’s going to show up for camp or move to Shady Acres Senior Community.

We’re curious to know - did Brett Favre think Randy Moss was the missing piece of the puzzle? Do the Packers not have enough players getting fines and showing up for practice half-baked? If Favre had a problem with Javon Walker wanting more money, who knows what he’d think the next time Moss, say, ran over a policewoman.

• SI.com - NFL - Report: Favre’s agent requested trade after NFL draft - Sunday May 13, 2007 5:33PM

Having the “man” in a “one-man team” getting taken down with a knee surgery for 2 months could be considered a disaster. But all may not be lost for the Washington Wizards. Star guard Gilbert Arenas could return in time for the NBA Fi-

Please, let me finish.

The NBA Fina-

Stop laughing. Please.

Like we were saying, Arenas could return to play in the NBA Fi-

Forget it.

• SI.com - NBA - Arenas sidelined 2-3 months with knee injury - Thursday April 5, 2007 6:58PM

No one really expected David Carr to accomplish much with the Houston Texans, but few might have guessed that after five years he would be relegated to holding Chris Weinke’s old clipboard. It’s a shame, really - Carr never had much to work with and played behind an offensive line which had more holes in it than a Cincinnati Bengals shooting victim.

Interestingly, signing Carr means that the Panthers now have the top two picks of the 2002 draft on their roster. If the team waterboy quits anytime soon, Joey Harrington could make it a three-of-a-kind.

• ESPN.com - NFL - Carr agrees with Panthers, will back up Delhomme

Tony La Russa may have been arrested for drunk driving, but we can’t help but think if Jackie Chiles could take this case La Russa would walk.

The cops didn’t catch La Russa driving - they caught him passed out at a stop light. Drunk…parking.

So, does this mean they take away the Cardinals’ championship and give it to the Detroit Tigers?

• SI.com - Cardinals manager Tony La Russa arrested on drunken driving charge

Hey, when the season is almost over and you’ve only put in time in 17 games, you have to do something to get attention. Mohawks just don’t cut it anymore. So Scot Pollard - who should be notorious for being the only “Dennis Rodman wannabe” in the history of the universe - figured telling kids to do drugs would accomplish just that. It worked.

Considering the NBA’s numerous anti-drug campaigns and messages, it’s a wonder David Stern hasn’t had Pollard drawn and quartered for the comment. On the irony scale, this is approximately equal to Barry Bonds filming a commercial for BALCO. At a playground.

It is unknown whether Pollard faces any fines for the stunt, or whether Cavaliers brass will just sentence him to an afternoon at SuperCuts.

• Cavs apologize for Pollard’s drug quip
• SI.com - NBA - Cavs’ Pollard sorry for saying, ‘Hey kids, do drugs’

Most people, when they decide to retire, move to Florida.

Jake Plummer has it backward. He wants to retire instead of moving to Florida.

When a guy can’t even figure out how to retire correctly, it’s no wonder he lost his job. He obviously has some kind of backward thinking disorder. Of course he couldn’t lead the Broncos to the Super Bowl - he thought he could make it by losing in the playoffs.

• Plummer may chose retirement over trade – NBCSports.com

The Steelers cutting Joey Porter is almost like Mount Rushmore cutting Abe Lincoln, but apparently the new-look Steelers want a new attitude as well to go with new coach Mike Tomlin - an attitude of passive wussiness.

Someone’s going to be able to pick up a pretty darn good linebacker still at the top of his game. And his dogs too. Sacramento citizens are lucky they don’t have an NFL team, because if Porter played there, between his and Ron Artest’s dogs they’d have to force them to live on a reservation and build a moat around it.

We just hope for Porter’s sake that the door didn’t hit him on the fanny on his way out. Ya know, just in case the bullet wound is still sore.

• ESPN.com - NFL - After kicking around Porter, Steelers cut him loose
• Joey Porter’s dogs escape and kill a horse » The Sports Dirt
• Ron Artest starves his dogs » The Sports Dirt

One season, eight losses, eight interceptions to three touchdown passes…in Detroit, it’s enough to earn a three year-contract extension. In Oakland, where the standards are ever-so-slightly higher, it’s enough to cost Aaron Brooks his job.

To be fair, Brooks didn’t have a whole lot to work with; his offensive line helped him eat turf 26 times and his top two targets, Randy Moss and Jerry Porter, are spoiled prima donnas who spent a significant portion of the season on the sidelines getting their nails done. We think.

But rebuilding has to start somewhere, and it wasn’t enough to let lame duck Art Shell go. Of course it wont be enough, so unless JaMarcus Russell is getting a one-year Isiah-Thomas-like contract, they might want to make sure they get a few other problems fixed first. Note to Al Davis - whining about not playing in LA is not one of those other problems.

• Scout.com: Raiders cut Aaron Brooks

Tim Hardaway is nothing if not efficient. When most people are ready to start looking for another job, they might start slacking at work, hoping to get fired. They might take months figuring out what they are going to do next. Not Tim. Uh-uh. Tim knows just how to cut those strings.

“You know I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States. So yeah, I don’t like it.”

Not surprisingly, the NBA has removed him from league-sponsored events, at least for the foreseeable future. Maybe he has a future promoting English as the country’s official language.

Keep this in mind when shopping for Mr. Hardaway next Christmas. Ixnay on the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy DVDs.

• MiamiHerald.com | 02/14/2007 | Tim Hardaway - to Dan LeBatard during Dan’s show on Sports Talk 790 the ticket
• TheStar.com - Sports - Hardaway apologizes after saying `I hate gay people’