Links: Tigermania and other really important stuff

Finals have once again descended upon my life.  That means little time for posting, but I need a distraction, so I can at least bestow upon you one of life's simplest gifts: links.   Virtually substanceless links at that.   So it goes.

Tiger Woods continues to entertain.  As if rumors of three four mistresses, sexually laced and homicidal text messages, panicked voicemails, and homoerotic dreams weren't enough for Tiger to deliver us this week, now we get a couple more doozies.  First, he's apparently so enraptured with marriage that he's willing to pay his wife $80 million for two more years of it.  That makes sense given his four affairs and all.  Second, Rachel Uchitel (the original Tiger mistress, thank you) revealed that Tiger prefers his adultery in a drug-induced haze.  Her reports of their "crazy Ambien sex," make the Boreanaz/Jeter email so much weirder.

Jake Gyllenhaal heard that guys are supposed to like sports.  Apparently Donnie Darko did what any sensible human would and got a Pittsburgh Steelers tattoo on his lower back after shooting a film in the 'Burgh for a few months.  Yeah, Jake's pretty much diehard: "He's been a Patriots fan, but came to love the Steelers, too, [Gyllenhaal] said."

People are terribly dumb.  "That blog I read" Blue Gray Sky tells a hilarious and pathetic cautionary tale of just how easy it is to spread rumors on the Internet.  In an unrelated story, we've linked more Tiger Woods developments above.

Mark Cuban: not embarrassing at all.  Listen Cubs fans, I'll tell you from personal experience, it's not always so great having Mark Cuban resurrect your franchise.  No, sometimes you have to sit there as he takes his stupid grin on national television as a professional wrestler.

U.S. Soccer finally gets a break.  The U.S. soccer team got an amazing World Cup draw Friday (England, Slovenia, and Algeria).  Now all they need is Oguchi Onyewu's rehab to go smoothly, and Charlie Davies's stanky leg to magically reconstruct itself.

I assure you NHL players get paid.  Puck Daddy actually managed a pretty interesting post the other day, listing the top 5 best and worst NHL contracts of the decade.  Not sure how they left off Daniel Briere's 8-year $52 million contract with the Flyers considering he missed 50 games last year and is –27 in his time there, but whatever.

On a serious note, everyone remember to give thanks for the fact that you have never sat next to Mark Mangino on a plane: