Welcome to the first ever Sunday linkdump on The Lowdown Blog. To your right is Katy Perry who has been featured in the old Weekend Link-Off series.

While the UWO Students’ Council is throwing fees at Mustang Athletics, students at NCAA colleges in the USA aren’t so willing to throw cash on to a fire. (New York Times) See UWO, this is what happens when you elect a president who would rather be homecoming queen than president.

If you’ve been keeping up with the Phoenix Coyotes soap opera, you know that The Great One will be out over $9 million if the team isn’t sold for enough money. Turns out that there are a lot of people that could be short money including the Boy Scouts. (Globe and Mail)

Speaking of hockey, what happens to the hats that are thrown to celebrate a hat trick. (Puck Daddy) True story: I was at a Soo Greyhounds game where a Soo player got a hat trick. One guy threw his hat on the ice. A linesman picked up the hat and gave it to a game staff member who gave it back to the guy that threw it.

After the jump, more links and don’t call the WWE Champion “fragile”.

Tony LaRussa may not be a good sport about a parody Twitter account but he is good at forcing Twitter to separate the real folks from the fakes. (TechCrunch)

On Wednesday, I had some notes from the NHL Draft Combine. Now some from NHL Central Scouting. (Sportsnet)

Let’s keep going with hockey. There’s never a bad time to compare players to movie characters. For example, this one that compares players in the Stanley Cup Finals to characters from Star Wars. (Here Come The Bruins)

With the Orlando Magic making the NBA Finals, the Orlando Sentinel ran a basketball for dummies feature on their website. I guess the frontrunners might be able to say intelligent other than “YEAH! MAGIC RULE!” (Deadspin)

Joe Buck is going to be hosting a talk show on HBO. And he’s going to try his hand at comedy too. God help America. (The Big Lead)

If you’re in Tenessee, the Vols football team will be running an orientation day for fans. Bonus: Layla Kiffin will be there. It’s too bad that it’s for women only… (Fanhouse)

It’s all fun and games in the Cola Wars… Until we start talking about sports drinks. Then the claws come out. (AdAge)

An in-depth look at the possibility of Danica Patrick leaving Indy Cars for the supposedly greener pastures of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. (Speed)