INVESTERS FOUND TO PAY FOR SWEATY GIRL-GIRL ACTION: SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY’s Terry Lefton reports professional women’s soccer in the U.S. has officially been “reborn“, as patsies investors have been landed to fund “a women’s pro soccer league that would begin in ‘08 and play a 20-game schedule, from April to October.”
More importantly, we’ll probably get […]

WIKIPEDIA ENTRY REPORTS DANIELLE GAMBA DECEASED: Based on the less-than-reliable Wikipedia.org, Danielle Gamba (the former Raiders cheerleader turned nude model) in the past month has been married to Nick Swisher (top screenshot - from Google cache Feb. 17), and died on Friday (screenshot of 2/25/06 Wikipedia entry):

On Feb. 26, Gamba’s Wikipedia entry was completely erased […]

CURT SCHILLING READY TO SHOW OPPOSING BATTERS, DRIVERS BEST WAY TO REACH HOME THIS SUMMER: The TomTom portable navigation system will now include the voice of Curt Schilling, the company announced today.

Press release excerpt: “Curt Schilling will be telling drivers across America how to find their way home.”
Based on the Red Sox’s unwillingness to offer […]

OUTDOORS CELEB JOURNO UNDER ASSAULT FOR COMMENTS: Longtime OUTDOOR LIFE hunting editor Jim Zumbo, who is also the author of numerous books and a cable TV host, has had his professional life collapse in the past two weeks - because he suggested in an online blog that automatic weapons be banned from hunting.

For non-hunters, that […]

CNBC REPORTER ROVELL: LPGA BUTCHERS UP NEW LOOK: CNBC Sports Business Reporter Darren Rovell mulls over the new LPGA logo, and the results aren’t pretty: “I’m laying down the smack on whoever came up with the new LPGA logo. Have you seen this thing? It’s the silhouette of woman in a visor with some big […]

TITANS LATE TO PACMAN JONES’ PRE-DRAFT PARTY LINE: The only thing interesting about the NFL combine this weekend, besides Brady Quinn’s audition for the World Strongman Competition and watching Rich “Hollywood” Eisen live a life of quiet desperation in Indy, is Jim Czarnecki’s hilarious hearsay report of Pacman Jones’ prophetic 2006 pre-draft behavior, as chronicled […]

SERENA WILLIAMS NO ACE ON PRE-OSCAR PARTY CIRCUIT: The blog Young, Black and Fabulous has this assessment of Serena Williams at a pre-Oscar party:

Hey, it could’ve been worse: