USA Today Music — Neal Casal, former guitarist for The Cardinals who worked with Willie Nelson, Chris Robinson and Ryan Adams, has died at the age of 50.             more info

Consequence of Sound — Casal also worked with the likes of Phil Lesh, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, and Cass McCombs. R.I.P. Neal Casal, guitarist for The Cardinals and Chris Robinson Brotherhood, dead at 50 Alex Young more info

JamBase — Celebrate Ryan Adams’ 44th birthday today with a look back at an acoustic performance with The Cardinals' guitarist Neal Casal. more info

TMZ — The Cardinals cut ties with Tyrann Mathieu ... so he's cutting ties with Arizona -- putting his million dollar desert mansion on the market for $1.4 mil ... TMZ Sports has learned.  Honey Badger bought the 5,700 square foot pad back in… more info

JamBase — This week's Throwback Thursday looks at Ryan Adams & The Cardinals' 2006 appearance on long-running live music television program 'Austin City Limits.' The post Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Appear On ‘Austin City Limits’ In 2006 appeared first on ... more info

JamBase — Last night singer-songwriter Ryan Adams sat-in with frequent collaborator Jesse Malin at Bowery Ballroom in New York City. Malin's band features Catherine Popper on bass, who toured with Adams in the mid '00s as part of The Cardinals before she jo... more info

Perez Hilton — Best tradition EVER?! Over the weekend, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Carlos Martinez took to Instagram to show his thousands of followers how the team hazes their rookies! In the (above) pic, the MLB newbies wore skintight speedos to the airport! Rela... more info

Perez Hilton — Girl power! On Monday, it was reported that the Arizona Cardinals hired what's believed to be the first ever female coach of any kind to the NFL. AH-Mazing! The football team appointed Jen Welter as an assistant coaching intern, for training camp and... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — With such a big week of releases and the awesome return for a few big artists...who has the time to write about all of them.   I'm doing my best to catch up...so here's another post from the book...with one alteration.  In the book, I only ... more info

TMZ — Billy Bob Thornton is concerned about his St. Louis Cardinals ... telling us they're playing like crap lately ... and he knows why. BBT is a die-hard Cards fan -- and even though they've won their past couple of games, Billy Bob knows they just… ... more info