ESPN had to know it had gold on its hands when it filmed a SportsCenter spot portraying John Clayton as a secretly-long-haired teenage metal fan. Indeed, reaction to the spot was as glowing as the network could have hoped, so now ESPN’s riding the Clayton-as-metalhead train as far as it’ll take them. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

For a guy who frankly does not have a ton of it, there’s been a lot of attention paid to ESPN NFL reporter John Clayton’s hair over the last couple years. He’s been suspected of having a ponytail. He’s been suspected of having a mullet. The “truth,” however, is far more shocking. [The Big Lead]

The NBA’s going to miss the first two weeks of its regular season and quite possibly more, so LeBron James doesn’t have a job at the moment. So what’s a guy to do? Well, LeBron was a tremendous wide receiver for his high school football team, and his passion for that game runs deep enough that he recently participated in a high school football practice in full pads, just because he wanted to get back out on the field. It sure seems like he’d love to play football again. Could he?