Updated: Sunday Evening 3/30/08

Newsday: http://www.newsday.com/sports/hockey/rangers/ny-sprang305631800mar30,0,2919306.story?track=rss

Apparently Madame Kristen Davis denies any knowledge of Sean Avery as a patron and her lawyer maintains that the electronic spreadsheet the NY Daily News claims contained Avery’s name is nonexistent. To quote her lawyer Mr Heller:

Heller said no such book exists. “It’s my belief and my client’s belief that whatever is in the Daily News’ possession is not authentic,” he said. “If it were real, the district attorney’s office would have brought it to the arraignment and waved it in front of the court.”

Looks like Sean Avery won’t need to twist Glen Sather’s arm for more money come July. He should make a tidy some from all his libel lawsuits. 

This whole incident should still serve as an object lesson for all men in the public eye be they businessmen, politicians, or professional athletes.

I can understand why single men, sports figures especially, patronize prostitutes. I just can’t condone it. Some groupies out there want to get their hooks into players to ensure a long-term gain. They get themselves pregnant and ensure a meal ticket for themselves until the kid is an adult. Or, they claim they were raped to sue for damages.

A story circulated a while back about a famous hockey player who had a son that was the product of a casual relationship he’d had with the boy’s mother. Now I’m not saying that this woman wasn’t in love with the hockey player but he certainly wasn’t in love with her. Otherwise, he would have made her an offer of marriage when he learned he was, as they now say, the Baby Daddy.

Women can be really shortsighted about love and men. They sometimes are incapable of separating their urges from their emotions. Men, conversely, cannot control their hormonal urges. Their baser instincts overrule their common sense when it comes to obtaining sexual gratification. This is the dangerous Venus/Mars combination. Certainly, patronizing a prostitute is the unemotional, simple way to ensure gratification while maintaining anonymity. It just makes you wonder what diseases are being spread by the Johns to their innocent girlfriends/wives.

If this story about Avery is true, he better have his name on some other Madame’s list. After this latest revelation, I have a feeling Avery’s going to be a lonely boy. No decent girl will want to be with him. From everything I’ve read about her, Elisha Cuthbert seems to be a decent Canadian girl. She might know something about Avery we don’t?

What has all this to do with Avery’s ability to play hockey?  Any publicity is good publicity you say? Bushwah. The Rangers are in a fight for a playoff berth. How many more distractions do they need? Jagr is talking to his former GM from Omsk. Apparently, Avery can’t keep it in his pants. It’s a distraction and, frankly, an embarrassment. 

If I’m Glen Sather, I’m having second thoughts about re-signing Avery. He’s a ticking bomb, ala Kobe Bryant. If these allegations about Avery are true, it is all very unseemly. I feel badly for his parents.