The NBA has locked out its players, and as a result NBA.com looks mighty different than usual. Picture pods that would normally feature Kobe Bryant or LeBron James instead feature NBA commissioner David Stern, along with some classic shots of John Stockton and the Milwaukee Bucks.

The headlines feature league officials, coaches and former players, but no current NBA stars are mentioned by name.

SBNation has a good roundup of what is on the team websites.

The NHL Network will telecast NESN’s live HD coverage of the Boston Bruins’ Stanley Cup victory parade Saturday at 10 a.m. ET.

NHL.com will also stream the parade, which starts at TD Garden and ends at Copley Plaza in downtown Boston. NHL Network will show an encore presentation of the parade at 1 p.m. ET.

Starting Friday, the NHL Network will carry a special entitled Path to the Cup, which will broadcast each Bruins’ game in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Read more

The BBC will broadcast the men’s and women’s singles finals at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships live in 3D.

It will mark the first 3D broadcast in BBC history. The free-to-air broadcast will be available to anyone who has access to a 3D TV set and to BBC’s HD channel. Read more

Could we see the return of Tony Kornheiser as a writer instead of just a yodeler?

Bill Simmons hinted Tuesday on The B.S. Report that he’s recruiting the Pardon the Interruption co-host for his new website project, Grantland.com:

“With less than two minutes to go in the podcast, the discussion turned toward Simmons’ new website and how he was enlisting [Mike] Lupica’s help in getting author and famed Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman (The Princess Bride) to hop on board.

“I think we got [Goldman] almost there,” said Lupica, the power broker. That’s when Simmons dropped the name of another noted writer, one who now yodels for a living, that he has also been recruiting.

[Goldman] and [Tony] Kornheiser are both so terrified to stare at that blank Microsoft Word Document,” Simmons said. “Once you get out of that habit, they’re so afraid to go back.”

Say what now? Former Washington Post sports columnist Tony Kornheiser, now the co-host of Pardon the Interruption and host of his own D.C. area radio show might go back to being an ink stained – or in the computer age, a carpal tunneled wretch? OK, we’re listening… Read more

The Pro Football Writers of America announced its award winners for 2011, honoring New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Ryan won the Horrigan Award as the non-player who most helped the media do their job in 2010. At the rate Ryan is going, this award will be renamed in his honor by the time he retires from coaching.

Rodgers won the Good Guy Award, given to the player that best helped the media do their job.

The Baltimore Ravens won the Rozelle Award for the public relations staff that strived for excellence in dealing with the media.

Former Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger won the Halas Award for overcoming the most adversity. Heimerdinger was diagnosed with cancer last November and is undergoing chemotherapy treatments.

Lastly, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter Bob McGinn won the McCann Award for the reporter who has made a long and distinguished contribution towards coverage of the NFL. McGinn has covered the Packers for 32 years.

Reporter Jim Gray won’t be involved in the Golf Channel’s coverage of the 2011 Masters Tournament this weekend.

“No, he is not part of our crew this week,” said Golf Channel spokesman Jeremy Friedman in an email to the USA Today.

Gray, who was involved in last year’s coverage, was pulled off the Golf Channel after getting into an argument with Dustin Johnson‘s caddie, Bobby Brown, at the Northern Trust Open at Rivera Country Club in February.

Take three minutes out of your day and watch this piece on Nick Charles, CNN’s first sports anchor.

Charles is fighting Stage 4 bladder cancer and has only months to live.

Make sure to have a tissue handy.

Welcome back, Luther.

Congrats to the University of Connecticut Huskies.

Following an opening-night loss to the Florida Marlins, an employee of SNY, the Mets’ network, played a clip from Family Guy over broadcaster Gary Cohen that makes fun of the ballclub.

The clip (see above) features Stewie Griffin and pokes fun at the Mets’ struggles in recent years.

“It was a very poor decision by an individual employee and the matter is being dealt with internally,” said Andrew Fegyveresi, an SNY spokesman.