Woo-hoo! That is all.

I went to the Chicago Blackhawks site earlier to look up if the New York Rangers will be in town this season, but when I navigated to the Hawks’ site, it looks as if their site lease had expired. This is what I saw:

Oops. Just more incompetence from the Hawks organization. I think they’re the only team in the National Hockey League without a site. Or maybe they do, but it’s just down.

The Daily Southtown is reporting that Chicago Cubs GM Jim Hendry may have his eye on the South Side. Well, maybe just on White Sox rightfielder Jermaine Dye.

Dye’s power numbers have been decent so far this season, with 16 homers and 47 RBIs. However, he’s hitting at an anorexic .229 clip.

Hendry’s on good terms with Sox GM Ken Williams, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens in the coming days.

On Wednesday, the New York Mets named Rickey Henderson the team’s new hitting coach.

Henderson, who compiled a .279 career average, hit .300 or better seven times in his career and is a member of the 3,000 hit club, collecting 3,055 hits during his career.

Maybe SS Jose Reyes will break 100 steals this season…? I mean, Rickey did it three times.

Here’s an interesting feel-good piece from today’s Chicago Tribune by William Hageman titled, “The feel of the game,” which details the best tour one can have of U.S. Cellular Field.

…or as Larry Brooks of the New York Post refers to them, the “Blue-Chip” Rangers.

Evidently, Scott Gomez and Chris Drury wanted to lace up in the red, white and blue and become part of the best show on Broadway.

Then again, who wouldn’t want to go from East Rutherford to New York, or Buffalo to New York?

Brooks writes:

For despite the outlay of cash, the Rangers did not bribe these players to come to New York, the way they once bribed mercenaries such as Theo Fleury, Val Kamensky and Stephane Quintal to pull on the Blue$hirt. Drury and Gomez will wear the sweater – er, RBK Uniform System – because as badly as the Rangers wanted them, the feeling was mutual.

“As a kid, this was the team; there was nothing bigger and better than the Rangers where I’m from,” said Drury, who grew up rather famously in Trumbull, Conn., rooting for the Blueshirts. “This is the place.”

Gomez said:

“Let’s face it, there’s only one New York City,” said Gomez, whose contract includes veto power over a trade to three destinations per year. “It’s the biggest stage in the world: MSG.

“New York offered everything; the city, the atmosphere, a team ready to win. Everything I have and have done is because of [the Devils], but at the end of the day, it was time.”

These are two rough-and-tumble, defensive-minded centers who can shoulder some of the scoring load off “Old Man River” Brendan Shenahan and the rest of the second line.

At least they’ll be even more fun to watch this year!

Ah, it’s about time.

After losing 14 of the last 18 games,my New York Mets completed a sweep of the Oakland Athletics Sunday at Shea Stadium with a 10-2 trashing.

It’s about time. The Mets hadn’t won a series since about 1932. But unfortunately, the Cubbies look like they’re about to sweep the White Sox at the Cell. Oh well.

Oh, and if you see an abnormally large Mets flag hanging over Clark Street in Lincoln Park in the near future, well, that’ll be me.

UPDATE: The Cubs won. Grr.

You’ll never really see me link to a Jay Mariotti piece, but his column in today’s Chicago Sun-Times brings hope to Cubs fans.

Mark Cuban, owner of the Chicago Cubs. Kind of has a nice ring to it, eh? If this happens, I think I’d have to start watching more Cubs games…

…wait, I didn’t just say that?

Now you see him, now you don’t.

Evidently Billy Donovan, who signed a 5 year, $27.5 million contact to coach the Orlando Magic last week, already wants out. Team officials have finally allowed him to return to his head coaching gig at the University of Florida.

Read Adrian Wojnarowski’s Yahoo! Sports column about it here.

I’ll never miss an opportunity to bash the New York Yankees, especially when the target is as juicy as Alex Rodriguez.

According to a gossip column in today’s New York Daily News, Rodriguez’s wife, Cynthia, packed up and left when he was out on the town with a buxom blond.

The News reports:

“In New York, A-Rod used to be a regular at the VIP Club, where he always asked for a dancer who performs under the stage name Monique.

Monique is 5-feet-5 with brown hair and brown eyes and has a well-toned, muscular figure, a pal said.

When the stripper jumped over to the Hustler Club, Rodriguez started going there to see her perform and buy sexy lap dances, a source said.

He even took her out for a pricey shopping spree at the Versace store on Fifth Ave., the source said.

Some claimed Rodriguez even shoots X-rated text messages to hisfavorite strippers across the country.

‘He loves to text dirty,’ said a strip club insider. ‘His wife should check his messages.’

Yikes.