Who wears short shorts? Fighter Brock Lesnar didn't pay attention

Brock Les-nar's wife is going to love reading this.

Lesnar didn't seem to notice Thursday that he was being interviewed by a woman wearing hot pants. He had just finished the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) news conference, held before a Mall of America crowd, for Saturday night's pay-per-view event at Target Center.

The Canadian host of "Rough with Nicky Ryann," a Fight Network entertainment show, had pulled Lesnar off to the side for an interview. When Ryann asked if Lesnar was married, he didn't hedge or ground and pound, he held up his ring finger, which had a band on it, and said he was married for the camera.

Afterward, Ryann told me she fully appreciated how rare that was. The TV show host is a former CFL cheerleader so she knows what playas players can be.

Asked if he wished all reporters who interviewed him wore hot pants, Lesnar said, "Hot pants?" and hesitated, as you can see on startribune.com/video. Perhaps I should have described them as shorts or short shorts, even though those garments are customarily worn with sneakers, not high heels.

"C.J., you're going to get me in trouble," Lesnar said, smiling. "You're just trying."

It's good to see that he was not negatively influenced by the lockerroom atmosphere during his flirtation with an NFL career. Too many NFLers and other pro athletes keep the fact that they are married quiet. "I'm not an NFL player," Lesnar said. "I'm a fighter."

"No," said Lesnar's attorney, Brian Stegeman. "Totally untrue. Honestly, he's in a wonderful place right now. Very happily married."

Lesnar waved his wedding band around like a contented husband.

Now all he needs is a Mixed Martial Arts victory. "He's been tossed in with the biggest sharks in the ocean. He's either going to get eaten up or he's going to eat them," Stegeman said.

I'm pulling for Lesnar.

A 'girly-girl' into fights Nicky Ryann was informed that women on ESPN don't dress in hot pants.

It would have been pointless to tell Ryann that Mary Hart doesn't anchor "ET" in hot pants, although she has those million dollar legs.

Ryann's show airs in Canada on the Fight Network and in the UK on Sky Sports and, as we all know, many countries outside the United States are a lot less hung up on flaunting it.

Rampage the Romeo Rampage left the MOA with at least one woman's phone number.

The former light heavyweight UFC titlist, whose mother named him Quinton Jackson, wasn't behaving like a man facing -- according to TMZ.com -- felony charges of hit-and-run and evading police in mid-July in California.

He was showing off his abs on stage at the news conference, and afterward was observed punching a woman's digits into his phone.

He's not that cute, especially in that mug shot on TMZ.com.

Innes catches an eye Laura Innes must be in town visiting the in-laws.

Attorney Barry Rosenzweig spied the "ER" star at the 50th & France area's D'Amico & Sons on Wednesday. "I had just had my hair cut over at Spalon Montage. I walked in there [D'Amico] to have something to eat and it wasn't real busy. I'm, 'Uh, is that? ... 'Cause you know when they're not all made up. She was very nice. She seemed to be with her kids and a gentleman. I asked her if she was Laura Innes who portrayed Dr. Kerry Weaver on 'ER' and she replied she was. I told her I enjoyed her on the show and she thanked me and went on her way."

OK, readers, this is how it's done!

Note that Rosenzweig did not shoot me an e-mail stating: I thought I saw Laura Innes. Sure looked like her. I'm about 95 percent sure that's who it was. Could you find out if she was at D'Amico & Sons?

Rosenzweig politely ASKED Innes about her identity, he didn't badger her, and they went on with their lives.

That's what I'm talking about, people! Thanks for having an eye for noticing celebs, Barry.