It seems the dog days of the offseason are almost done and the newsworthy stuff is getting more newsworthy every week. Here's the latest shizzle, some of it old, some of it new…

• Chris Andersen was busy getting his name misspelled in the Boston Globe on Sunday. The important bit…

  Anderson has been working out in Las Vegas getting ready to resume his career, and it's anticipated that the Hornets, who last held his rights, will not reinstate his contract (3 1/2 years left on a four-year, $14 million deal), which will make Anderson a free agent.

  No place like Vegas for rehab, right? I wonder though if the Hornets have completely given up on Andersen. I don't see them reinstating that contract because he could be had much cheaper now, but why wouldn't we offer him smaller change as a free agent? Might be a risk worth taking.

• Speaking of old faces, former Hornets' front-office-type-guy Paul Mott is back in the big leagues, baby! Oh no wait, it's just MLS.
• Today's announcement that Charter failed to reach a new agreement with Cox to broadcast CST on the north shore means that the 200,000 residents of St. Tammany Parish in New Orleans won't be able to watch the Hornets on TV this season.

  However, the folks over on the HR boards are saying this could be a good thing; paving the way for Hornets games on DIRECTV and DISH Network, which may result in more asses on couches watching Chris Paul pulling off crazy spin moves.

• Headline of the year: Honeybees gang up to smother deadly Hornets.
• Old-school swingman Eddie Johnson told HoopsHype about locker room fashion shows back in his days as a Hornet…

  We had a fashion show before each game. Players would actually wait for you to walk in the locker room so they could dissect what you were wearing. Alonzo Mourning, Larry Johnson, Muggsy Bogues and Johnny Newman wore a different outfit for 82 games… They would hang up the worse outfit of the night and debate about it before our team meeting before the game.

  Man, no wonder we didn't make the Playoffs that year.

• Old news by now: Says here that The Commish will be in N'Awlins for the season opener against Sacramento. Yay.
• Steve Aschburner (hehe) of SI.com handed out summer grades for the Southwest Division teams a few weeks back. The important thing is, we did better than Dallas.

All done. I'm off to find a free dinner and talk like a pirate. Yaaarrr!!!