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By Tom Jones
Published January 27, 2007

Someone oughta sell tickets

Nicolas Cage - we like to remember him best as H.I. McDunnough in Raising Arizona - has been named grand marshal of the 49th annual Daytona 500, which is Feb. 18. Cage joins actors James Caan, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck and John Travolta as previous Daytona grand marshals.

Sore sport of the day

The Wizards' Gilbert Arenas is still whining about being cut from the U.S. national team in the summer by coach Mike Krzyzewski. He says he wants to go back to college and play Coach K's Duke team. "Forty-minute game at Duke, they got soft rims I'd probably score 84 or 85. I wouldn't pass the ball. I wouldn't even think about passing it. It would be like an NBA Live or an NBA 2K7 game, you just shoot with one person," he wrote on his Web site.

On the move

ESPN has decided to move Cold Pizza, and its off-shoot show 1st and 10, from its New York studios to the network's headquarters in Bristol, Conn. The move, scheduled for June, is some indication that ESPN has no plans to kill the ESPN2 morning show as has been rumored in recent months. But one has to wonder if the show can get the same quality in-studio guests moving out of the Big Apple.

[Last modified January 27, 2007, 01:35:28]