Football’s laborious off-season is officially upon us, but there are all sorts of fun things going on outside of the NFL. Here’s a quick roundup of all the football and non-football news you need to know.

-Fidel Castro is stepping down as Cuba’s leader due to his old age and failing health. The Patriots think they’ve found their newest linebacker.

-Zach Thomas is on the move!

-Zach’s former teammate/in-law, Jason Taylor will appear on the next season of Dancing With the Stars. He hopes that ABC’s “hit” show will convince the Pats that he is in fact white enough to join their ranks.

-Roman Polanski is being honored at the Turin Film Festival. He will celebrate by fondling a child under the cover of an old shroud.

-Lindsay Lohan showed off her milky white laters leaving millions to wonder why her freckles are so scared of her tits.

-JE Skeets modeled a football helmet.

-The strangest group photo ever taken outside of a blogger get-together was snapped backstage at a WWE event. I’m convinced that Lohan and Mayweather would make the world’s greatest child. I’m also convinced that Shane McMamahon has had cosmetic surgery to look more like his father.

-LZ Granderson hung out with Brady Quinn.

-Lil’ Stein says that the NFL has a bigger drug problem than MLB. He’s probably just associating long hair with drug use, which is unfair. Robert Gallery is high on bundt cake, not drugs.

-Champion’s League (best theme song in sports) is back, but I won’t bore you with that euro football crap. Instead I give you this picture of Cheryl Cole, who is about to tell Chelsea’s Ashley Cole to go fuck himself. As if that’s new. I told him to go fuck himself when he first showed up.

-ONLY TWO MORE DAYS UNTIL THE COMBINE!

The New England Patriots are the NFL’s version of blood diamonds, they may be evil and tainted but they’ll make you rich! Richer than astronauts! Do you want to know how you too can actually enjoy the diabolical reign of Belichick and company? Of course you do! How else are you going to pay off your student loans from that semester at DeVry? Follow my three easy steps (plus one fuckin’ complicated step) to success and soon you’ll have a boat filled with gorgeous women like you were some sort of brilliant midget with a twin brother in tow.

1. BET HEAVILY ON THE PATRIOTS POINT SPREAD

4. EAT CAVIAR OUT OF A HOOKER’S ASS

Yep, it’s really that easy. Now go sell all of your earthly possessions (yes, your daughter counts) and take the proceeds directly to your offshore bookie of choice.

This week the evil ones take on the crappy dangerous crappy Cleveland Browns and the spread is up at -16.

“But Maj, 16 is waaaay too many points.”

SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU WORTHLESS FUCKING TWAT ROCKET!

There’s absolutely no need to worry. The Pats have yet to win a game by fewer than three touchdowns. You can’t lose!*

So to you New England Patriots, I offer up a cup of coffee. You evil fuckers have proven to be coverers of the highest regard.

*You will almost certainly lose