POSTERIZED FOR YOUR PLEASURE: This little lady, “Luscious Liz” Hernandez, is the billboard maven for local L.A. hip-hop radio station Power 106 that has, for the second year in a row, volunteered to be part of a promotional campaign with the rumored local NHL squad.

The station gives away free tickets in a promotion where the […]

DIAL-A-RIDE IN LONG BEACH: Time’s thankfully running out for anyone willing to throw away at least $50,000 for a guaranteed spot in the upcoming Long Beach Grand Prix.
Oh, sorry. It’s only for the pro celebrity race. And you’ll be driving a modified Scion tC.
Bidding at the official LBGP site ends Feb. 14. The event takes […]

YOUR CALL: Jamie Gold, the Malibu guy who won $12 million at the 2006 World Series of Poker last August, has finally agreed to settle a dispute over his half of the grand prize, according to the ASSOCIATED PRESS (and reported in earnest among the many poker online sites).

Furthermore, the announcement comes a couple of […]

WHAT PLANET IS HE FROM? It’s not Bruins coach Ben Howland, but actor John Lithgow, who seems exuberant in the fact that UCLA is finishing off a win over rival USC in a basketball game at Pauley Pavilion on Wednesday.

The real connection for the Harvard grad who once shared a dorm room with Al Gore […]

NEW ESPN PHONE - NO SALISBURY ACCESSORY: Apparently inspired by George W. Bush’s recommittment to the war in the Iraq, the ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that ESPN is relaunching its previously-failed mobile phone service.

The service will relaunch in March and be available on Verizon’s “V Cast” phones. Content will include an ESPN channel with much of […]

SbB HANDY TIP ON ESCHEWING A LESBIAN LOCKSMITH:
Q: Why would anyone want to marry a tennis player? To them, love means nothing.
A: To us, a tennis ball is all we need to open the key to our heart. More specifically, our car door.

Little Miss Blondie here takes about a minute and a half out of […]

DIDN’T YOU HEAR? YOU’RE GONE: If Gary Bettman is about to leave his job as NHL commissioner, it’s news to him.
“I’ve watched with fascination some of the newspaper reports having me going on sabbatical shortly,” the beleaguered former NBA deputy commish said Wednesday night from Vancouver.
“That isn’t the case, wasn’t the case. I think people […]

Attention Tank Johnson: Your ammo supply may be getting much more expensive.
According to today’s CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, a Cook County commissioner wants to slap a 10-cents-per-bullet tax for anyone buying ammunition in that district, in hopes of closing a $500 million budget deficit.

Let’s see: If the house-arrested Chicago Bears defensive tackle went across the county line […]

COLTS = CASH FOR DISNEY NEIGHBORS: If the producers of the soon-to-be-axed “The O.C.” offer Peyton Manning one last quick guest appearance before Fox pulls the plug on the unintentional sit-com, we’ve got one reason why.
In an attempt to get a bunch of desperate Orange County housewives (who probably dabble in real estate) to at […]

MOVING THE CHAINS (AND HANDCUFFS) TO ARIZONA: We can’t honestly say that we missed watching the Lingerie Bowl during halftime of last Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI. We just couldn’t figure out why it never took place, following up the first three years of debauchery at the L.A. Coliseum.
Hollywood-based Horizon Entertainment now says it’ll have one […]