Coach reportedly sent porn to NFL officials

The Pittsburgh Steelers have confirmed that one of their employees sent an "inappropriate e-mail" message from the club office to "unintended recipients" last week, violating club and NFL policy.

ProFootballTalk.com, an online blog written by Mike Florio, first reported that Steelers line coach Larry Zierlein inadvertently forwarded an e-mail he received from Doug Whaley, the Steelers' pro personnel coordinator, to multiple high-level team employees and their secretaries throughout the NFL, including commissioner Roger Goodell.

Whaley, according to Florio, received the pornographic video from someone outside the Steelers' organization and forwarded it to others, including Zierlein, who then sent it along to more e-mail addresses than he apparently intended Friday.

Florio reported Zierlein tried to recall his naughty message several times and then followed with an apology to those to whom he mistakenly delivered it.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Boxer's father subs for him on conference call

Welterweight Zab Judah pulled a fast one on promoters and the media Wednesday, allowing his father, Yoel, to replace him on a conference call.

Judah was supposedly publicizing his June 9 fight with undefeated WBA champion Miguel Cotto. The call lasted about 30 minutes, during which Judah told sports writers, "We are going in to take the title, you are going to see blood, guts and sweat. You are going to see somebody hit the floor, I promise you."

Moments after the conference call concluded, Top Rank publicist Lee Samuels was contacted by several writers who said they believed Zab Judah was not providing the answers.

"We don't promote Zab, we promote Cotto," Samuels said. "So I immediately checked with Judah's camp and they said it was his father on the conference call."

The Associated Press

Bob L. Head night at minor league game

The Portland (Ore.) Beavers are putting the Bob in bobblehead night.

The minor league team will give away Bob L. Head dolls to the first 2,000 fans at their Aug. 18 game, with the likeness to be chosen by online fan vote from among:

n Robert Leroy Head of Maquoketa, Iowa.

n Bob Louis Head of Vallejo.

n Bob Lee Head of Evansville, Ind.

Voting concludes May 31, and the winner will be flown in to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on Bob L. Head night.

The Seattle Times

Soccer coach gets his 10 minutes of fame

Eat your heart out, George Steinbrenner.

Torquay United, an English soccer team, fired manager Leroy Rosenior after just 10 minutes. Seems the team was sold just as his hiring was announced, and the new owners wanted their own man.

"For it to happen 10 minutes after I finished the press conference was a bit of a shock," Rosenior told The Sun of London. "But we had a good laugh about it afterwards. Obviously they thought I had done a fantastic job after 10 minutes and let me go.

"... They are going to sort me out a bit of compensation."

The Seattle Times