SportsGrinder

Stephon Marbury could play for Boston as early as tonight, against Indiana at TD Banknorth Garden and we still don't understand why. Ever since the Marbury-to Boston-rumors began, no one has been able to answer, or seemingly even address, why Boston wants Marbury to play on the parquet. Yeah, we know he can score consistently when he's on. The Celts will use him for points off the bench, letting Eddie House play two-guard. he's what they miss without Sam Cassell. But Marbury also hasn't played a real NBA game in more than a year and has shown a tendency throughout his career to pout like a whiny, little baby if something offends his delicate sensibilities. Ah well, it's only for the stretch run. If he doesn't work out, they will slice and send him to free agency.















The guy in the yellow shirt? Bashir Ramathan. He's a blind boxer in Uganda. No joke. A boxer who's blind. Ow. His club, East Coast Boxing is set to stage the first ever blind amateur boxing match between Uganda’s Ramathan and Tanzanian Simon Peter Omar on March 28.

The gents who wrote a behind-the-scenes book about SNL are doing the same for the Worldwide Leader. Little, Brown announced that it had signed Tom Shales and Jim Miller, co-authors of "Live From New York," to write a book about ESPN. The book currently has the catchy name of "The Untitled ESPN Book," but they'll probably come up with a better one. This will be great. We're looking forward to tales of Chris Berman and Keith Olberbman coming to blows in the cafeteria and finally learning the truth about Suzy Kolber's hair.

Maurice Clarett, reports Deadspin, is blogging from jail. He was easy to dislike during his troubled, ill-fated, (insert cliché here) career at Ohio State (for about five minutes) and the NFL (Way to go Mike Shanahan!). But this doesn't seem like that same guy we knew. Maybe Maurice really has grown as a person. Or maybe he knows he has to write nice thing if he wants an early release, and so hired another prisoner to make him look good.

Tiger Woods may have been beaten on the links, but he still won something. Manofest.com has a list of the hottest PGA Tour wives and Elin Woods came out on top. There's no doubt she's fine, but we are partial to David Toms' wife, the MILF-tastic Sonya Toms.

The Browns traded Kellen Winslow to the Buccaneers for draft picks. Browns general manager George Kokinis said of Winslow, "We appreciate his passion for the game and wish him success in Tampa Bay," That's GM-speak for "Take your big mouth, your freak injuries and hit the road."

Early this year, CMT kicked off a new season of Cribs with a special NASCAR edition, starring Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch. The next episode, with Martin Truex Jr., will be shot March 3rd. The irony is that NASCAR drivers, during the season at least, spend approximately one day a week at home. If that.

Manny Ramirez rejected the latest offer from Dodgers. What else can you possibly say about this guy? And by "this guy," of course, we mean Manny's agent, Scott Boras. He's the worst.