Monday Sports Roundup

Getting out some sports links from the weekend and this past week:

• For some reason Jennifer Love Hewitt was playing basketball and tennis in a bikini and high heels and The New York Daily News got the picture. I will not complain and since she was playing sports, it will fit in this post. And you will like that.
• Will Carroll explains how waivers work in Baseball Prospectus (H/T Rob Neyer)
• Josh Hamilton's story is an amazing one and this past incident seems to just have added another chapter, the Dallas Morning News writes.
• Shane Victorino was ejected in most-ridiculous fashion yesterday as MLB.com recounts (H/T Jen)
• Two Mid-Western writing legends are leaving their newspapers: Hal McCoy for the Dayton Daily News (who are eliminating their Reds coverage) and Joe Posnanski for the Kansas City Star (going from a side job at Sports Illustrated to full-time there)
• IIATMS says that Gardner should start over Melky. I've felt this for a while, but I'm beginning to change my mind. Gardner is much better defensively out there, but as long as Gardner and Melky are both in the OF late in games, I think the Yankees should be good. Melky has really impressed me this season overall, though there are still some hiccups. I also really can't believe that Melky is younger than Gardner
• Baseball Musings points out the Albert Pujols is closing in on the grand slam record. The Mattingly stat he gives is amazing.
• Peter King checks in on the Giants camp and specifically on Super Bowl Hero, David Tyree
• ESPN's Page 2 looks into the world of adult kickball. I played one season of this and we didn't win one game. Not one.
• The New York Times checks in on other New York sports scenes without any millionaires.
• ShysterBall reports that Harvard Law School has started a new sports law journal, the Journal on Sports and Entertainment Law. Pretty awesome
• The New York Observer looks into the young New York Times' writer who exposes all those steroids users
• I found out this weekend that BJ (as in BJ Upton) stands for Bossman Jr. Well Bossman Jr. has been dropped to 9th in the Rays lineup and he's not thrilled about it as Rob Neyer writes
• The Arizona Diamondbacks are still paying (former New York Met) Bernard Gilkey and will be until 2017 as CNBC's Darren Rovell reports
• Former Red Sox outfielder, Troy O'Leary had a wife that everyone thought was an assistant principal. But by night she was moonlighting as an escort. Pretty nuts.
• Why was Roy Halladay never traded? The Onion reports that there never was a "Roy Halladay"
• Bronx Banter's Alex Bleth (filling in for Rob Neyer) asks why baseball movies strike out. I have to disagree. I love baseball movies. Major League, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, The Natural, Rookie of the Year, A League of Their Own, The Scout, The Bad News Bears, and The Sandlot were all good, in my opinion. Maybe I'm a sucker for baseball movies.
• Not sports but you and I may have been responsible for the Twitter outage, Facebook is about to become even more of a giant, and a great story about John Hughes (H/T The Big Lead)