Quick hits - Is A-Rod hot off the field too? And what is up with Kobe?

Today's New York Post is reporting that Alex Rodriguez has been spotted with a certain blonde woman in five cities....the Post reports that A-Rod and the mystery blond have been spotted going into strip clubs in Dallas and Toronto....here is the link for that story:

N.Y. Post A-Rod Story

The Pistons will win game 5 tonight....take it to the bank.....

Sticking with the NBA, what is up with Kobe Bryant?.....yesterday Kobe was upset and wanted traded because the Laker organization was not getting him any help.....he was also upset about them trading Shaq a few years back......am I missing something here, but wasn't Kobe the reason why Shaq was traded.....wasn't Kobe the one who wanted to show the world that he can lead the Lakers to an NBA title without Shaq......now it has suddenly become the organizations fault??.....Kobe is a dynamic player, but once thing has become clear over the past two seasons - Lebron James is a better player than Kobe.....both players are surrounded with mediocre to average players on each team.....but James has been able to take the Cavs farther into the NBA playoffs each year than Kobe.....Kobe has become the Dominique Wilkins of this era - a great scorer with a lot of flash, but the inability to lead his team to a conference title....check out N.Y. Post's Pete Vecsey's column which appeared on May 29th.....

Pete Vecsey

What the hell is wrong with Andy Roddick?.....I know Americans have a difficult time winning on the red clay at Roland Garros.....but this is ridiculous.....he was ranked third in the French Open and was bounced in the first round last year.....so what does Roddick do this year - he gets bounced once again in round 1......

Tampa Devil Rays’ Elijah Dukes is a great talent but he will always be a screw up off the field....he is too gangsta for baseball.....

Good move by Joe Torre not starting Roger Clemens in Boston.....Clemens would have guaranteed lost in Boston because he would have pumped himself up so much that he would have overthrown and given up at least 3 gopher balls....

Mark Cuban and some other knuckleheads are talking about starting a professional football league to rival the NFL.....when will people learn that these rogue leagues will not succeed.....Cuban was correct when he stated that people love football.....but people love quality professional football, not some half-baked quack league......

Say what you will, but Boston's Dice-K is just an average pitcher as the Indians proved last night by lighting him up for 12 hits and six earned runs in less than six innings pitched.....the great Dice-K with his much talked about "gyroball" is now sitting with an ERA of 4.83.....

Finally, here is some advice to people who wear dark pants - never eat a powdered sugar donut before a meeting.....I was a little early for a meeting yesterday so I stopped at a Dunkin Donuts to kill 20 minutes or so.....I decided to eat my first donut of 2007, so I bought a powdered sugar donut filled with chocolate....as I was eating I did not realize that the powdered sugar was dropping on my blue Dockers....all I know, that sugar is impossible to get off your pants.....trust me on this.....