“The Academy Award-winning actor and NASCAR are partnering up for a year-long deal that will include an appearance by Costner at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards banquet on Dec. 5; the narration of “The Ride of Their Lives,” the newest NASCAR film; and the premiere of Modern West’s new video, “Backyard,” on NASCAR.com on Monday, Dec. 8″ (E!)

No clue what to make of this. Putting aside the fact that he’s a Capricorn, and that he’s a Delta Chi, how has Kevin Costner dominated the baseball movies for the last 20 years? Wesley Snipes we can understand, but Costner? Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and For the Love of the Game were all quality flicks – the first two, moreso – but they would have been just as solid with … Don Johnson? Or our main man Jerry O’Connell?