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Monday miscellany: “Dancing With the Stars” starts up another season Monday (March 19). Among the participants are tennis legend Martina Navratilova and Green Bay Packers receiver Donald Driver. Their photos may be featured around here some day. Not today.
Maria Menounos and Derek Hough are among the favorites for the latest "Dancing With the Stars," which begins March 19.
Instead we will go with well-documented Boston sports fan Maria Menounos, the television personality who recently posed in a New York Giants bikini in a chilly Times Square after her beloved New England Patriots lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl. As someone who has had the pleasure of meeting Maria and interviewing her, we wish her nothing but the best.
Driver told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in an email he spends five hours daily dancing plus goes through a football workout. He said he spoke with Packers coach Mike McCarthy before consenting to do the show. “He [McCarthy] told me if I’m going to do it, I might as well try to win the whole thing.”
* You want this for March madness? Former NBA star Dennis Rodman — known for his partying ways during his Chicago Bulls days (and late nights/early mornings) — was in Chicago on Friday (March 16) for a collectibles show Saturday in Rosemont. He went to the Bulls game Friday night. Word is he subsequently went out to dinner and — here’s the madness — then called it a night. If he keeps that up, he’ll ruin his image. Maybe he merely was resting up. After all, Robin Leach of the Las Vegas Sun reported Rodman arrived shortly before midnight for Erin Go Bragh festivities at a Vegas establishment and “early [Sunday] morning he was still dancing on the tables for the celebration.” Well, that’s a relief. Hate to think he would spoil his image. Meanwhile in Vegas, Rodman’s former wife Carmen Electra was hosting a St. Patrick’s party at another site.
* Speaking of March Madness, given the number of visible empty seats at NCAA tournament games Sunday, you have to wonder how long it will be before the powers that run college basketball decide to make the contests a studio show with limited seating. Imagine what the prices would be for those tickets.
* And while we’re on the subject, for those who say the NCAA tournament is superior to the NBA finals, you are talking about excitement level (otherwise known as betting — namely bracket — interest) rather than skill level, right? And even at that, if you’re team is involved in the NBA finals, something says that is of a greater interest than matchup of two teams you might not even know the name of one starter on either team.
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