• General manager Ireland said while at the Senior Bowl that the Dolphins would be adding playmakers and game-changers, begging invocation of the phrase “better late than never.”

•  Tim Brown suggested that coach Bill Callahan “sabotaged” the Raiders in their Super Bowl XXXVII loss to Tampa because of his friendship with Bucs coach Jon Gruden. Brown might or might not have been drunk at the time.

• I tell you baseball keeps a stat for everything. I just heard the Braves have set an all-time record for most Uptons in an outfield.

• You know how the cause of an injury is sometimes best kept private? Free agent pitcher Carl Pavano just ruptured his spleen while shoveling snow.

• Gulfstream Park hosted the Eclipse Awards, thoroughbred racing’s Oscars, and Wise Dan won horse of the year over Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another. Never been in favor of drug testing voters, but might make an exception here.

• Mavericks center Chris Kaman said: “We started letting women vote. Now we’re letting homosexuals get married. So why all of a sudden are we taking away the right for people to own guns?” The good news? A player with no endorsement deals need not worry about sponsors dropping him.

• Pro tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga said women players are less consistent because they are “more unstable emotionally than us” due to “hormones and all this stuff.” Mr. Tsonga, meet Mr. Kaman.

•  Tony Sparano was hired as an assistant coach by the Raiders. Sorry, Tony.

•  Danica Patrick is dating fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. But for the lack of a NASCAR Sprint Cup series win between them, they’d be sports’ new power couple.

•  Parting thought: The NFL is considering changing its Rooney Rule after not one of the eight new head coaches or seven new general managers recently hired was named Rooney.

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