Reprising their role as reality TV stars, the Cincinnati Bengals have agreed to star on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” for the second time since 2009. Mike Florio finds it odd a team with playoff aspirations would let cameras into the locker room, and doesn’t believe the gains outweigh the distraction.

While some of the coaching staff and only 13 players are holdovers from 2009, did their previous experience on the show make the decision any easier?

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Nate Robinson peers into your soul as Joakim Noah, uh, looks on (Getty Images)

Much-traveled NBA guard Nate Robinson won the hearts and minds of many during the 2013 playoffs by keeping his plucky Chicago Bulls in game after game of their unlikely postseason run. The 5-9 guard may disappoint some of those new followers, though, with his recent conversion to the dark arts. That's right, Nate Robinson is a sorcerer, now. Able to shape-shift his way through glass at any number of fast food burger joints.

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Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

• Don Cherry wears a lot of ridiculous suits. [Reddit Hockey]

• Speaking of Don Cherry, he thinks Evgeni Malkin is a loser. "I wouldn’t have that Malkin. I know he’s talented, I know. But to me, he’s a loser, as far as I’m concerned.” I agree. Apart from that all that stuff he's won, he's always losing. [WEEI]

• The Chicago Blackhawks are all about adversity. They love it. Adversity is where it's at. [CSN Chicago]

• Chris Johnston on the brotherhood of the Bruins, just one of many secret societies in New England. [Sportsnet]

• Tuukka Rask says he and Tim Thomas still talk, but refuses to dish on what they talk about. Lame. [NESN]

• Nathan MacKinnon on Zdeno Chara: "That guy probably plugs himself in a night and recharges that way." [Sporting News]

• Toronto Radio broadcaster Dean Blundell crosses the line regarding the death of Oilers' prospect Kristian Pelss. ”How much must it suck playing hockey in Edmonton when you . . . I’m not going back. I mean, you’d rather jump off a bridge in like a war-torn country in a freezing cold river than go back to Edmonton. Shame. I hope they find him. I’ve been to Edmonton. I know what that guy’s talking about.” [Edmonton Journal]

• If you want to move into the top-four at the NHL draft, it's going to be very expensive. [CBC]

• The Senators and Paul MacLean are closing in on an extension, I guess because he's good or whatever. [Ottawa Sun]

• Was Wilt Chamberlain almost traded to the Chicago Bulls for Bobby Hull? [Ball Don't Lie]

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When you're the best college football program in the nation, how do you improve the experience for your players? Apparently, by adding a waterfall to the locker room.

The news of Alabama's new waterfall got out when quarterback prospect David Cornwell tweeted about it ("That waterfall in Bama's locker room is about to be legit! C'mon who has a waterfall.. No one!" he wrote). And in fairness, Twitter was pretty much invented so people could tweet about football teams installing a waterfall in the locker room, right?

Now here's where we get serious, but only for a second.

(Getty)Wade Davis played for three different NFL teams, and retired in 2003. In June of 2012, he came out, joining a small group of professional athletes who are publicly gay. This weekend, Davis attended Nike's LGBT Sports Summit, and talked to Shutdown Corner about the past year, Jason Collins, and helping youth.

Shutdown Corner: In the past year, NBA player Jason Collins and WNBA star Brittney Griner both came out. Other athletes have, too. Do you feel a change in climate in that one year?
Wade Davis: It feels different because there are so many conversations around LGBTQ athletes in sports. There's so many great organizations and people who are really making it their priority to make sure young people have spaces in sports that are accessible to people of all genders and sexualities. Also, there are so many athletes of all races and sexualities that are speaking out to add their voices to make sure that even pro athletes feel safe in sports.

SC: What was behind your decision to come out?
WD: There were two things. One, I was ready. I was in a point in my life where I knew enough about myself. I loved myself. There was so much self-hatred I lived with that I had to unlearn. Two, I was working with LGBTQ youth, and they really inspired me everyday. Just living in their truth and exhibiting so much courage that I was like, ya know, if these people can do this under insurmountable odds, an ex-NFL player who is draped privilege? I can also do it. I can also use the platform that was given to me to really share their stories.

SC: Now that it's been a year, how do you look back and judge the reaction?
WD: I would say 99 percent of the feedback was amazing. From ex-teammates, to college teammates, to high school teammates, they were all truly amazing. What I found kinda funny was that they were all a little bit mad at me. They said, 'Why didn't you tell me before? I would have loved you regardless, and I would have loved the opportunity to prove that to you. That I'd view you no different.'

If you wanted to be a curmudgeon and complain about how back in the day teams didn't need seven different uniform combinations and walked uphill in snow both ways to the stadium, pointing to this video could really help your case about the sartorial absurdity in college football. The folks at Compete4ever - an eSports community - put the above together, taking the time to scroll through every preset uniform in EA Sports' upcoming game.

It takes 35 minutes.

'I don't care.' (Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images)

"I don't care. [...] Cool. Cool." — Miami Heat center Chris Andersen describes his style in a brief chat with All Ball's Lang Whitaker.

Fellow big man Brad Miller surely agrees; others, however, might not.

It’s not often that families attend a high school graduation and are immediately presented with a perplexing riddle like the following: How can the nation’s best collegiate golfer be walking across the stage at a high school commencement?

Annie Park won the individual and team national titles as a freshman — AP

That was the bizarre scene in Long Island on Saturday, where Levittown (N.Y.) MacArthur High graduate and current NCAA women’s golf individual and team national champion Annie Park officially graduated with her former classmates. As one might expect, the attendance of a high profile USC golf star at a high school commencement inspired eligibility questions.

Luckily for Park and Trojans fans everywhere, the teenager didn’t violate any rules to compete for USC before she was eligible to do so. Instead, she finished her high school coursework and graduated from MacArthur early, in December, but couldn’t walk in a traditional commencement ceremony because the school didn’t host one then.

Instead, Park agreed to wait until the school-wide commencement in June and rejoin her classmates. Little did she know that she would do so as a dual national champion.

“The result was very unexpected for myself,” Park told USC sports information website USCTrojans.com immediately after her individual title. “I was just trying to play my best each round and each shot. It turned out to be good and feels great.”

That all became a reality in May, when Park and her teammates rolled to USC’s third consecutive national title, setting a team score record in the process; USC’s final combined score of 1,133 was 15 shots better than the standing record set by UCLA in 2004.

As for Park, her high school commencement was just the latest chapter in a whirlwind semester which could give way to an even more high profile professional future sooner rather than later.