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WIE SITS IN FAIRWAY, PLAYS WITH DOLLS DURING ROUND: As you know by know, Michelle Wie blatantly faked an injury last week to avoid shooting an 88, which would’ve resulted in a two-year suspension from the LPGA Tour.
And now the BALTIMORE SUN has news of even more trouble for Wie. It seems her playing partners […]

AL STOKKE: “DO YOU PLACE A POLE BETWEEN YOU LEGS?” Conor Izzet of OC WEEKLY has this wonderfully ironic quote from Al Stokke, the dad of pole vaulter Allison Stokke: “Do you place a pole between your legs and go up and down?”

Izzet reports Lawyer Stokke “asked the above of a stripper named Lucy during […]

• RANDBALL takes a nostalgic look back at the Cleveland Indians’ infamous 10-Cent Beer Night, and wonders how the blogging community would have reacted had it existed in ‘74:

• CAN’T STOP THE BLEEDING catches Scott Van Pelt calling Francisco Cordero “a Biz Markie lookalike“.
• Speaking of separated-at-birth, RIVALFISH offers some fun comparisons between celebrities and […]

SOCCER TEAM KICKS OUT THE JAMS, BRINGS IN THE HYMNS: Tired of the hooliganism and the on-field violence of the sport, the owner of a Romanian soccer team plans to play hymns and religious music before games:

THE LONDON GUARDIAN reports Steaua Bucharest owner Gigi Becali will no longer play what he considers “devil’s music”, but […]

YANKS FANS BEAT UP BOSTON FIREFIGHTER HELPING OUT: Ok, this New York-Boston rivalry is getting out of hand.
A group of men wearing Yankees caps attacked a Boston firefighter who was offering someone roadside assistance.

Chris Corwin and Daniel Donahoe were helping a truck driver get his rig in the right direction, when a car tried to […]

FEINSTEIN’S STIFLING HYPOCRISY ON DUKE LAX EXPOSED: AOL FANHOUSE’S Michael David Smith spotlights the hypocrisy of Duke alumnus John Feinstein when it comes judging the Duke lacrosse players.

Feinstein is now calling for the Duke administration to apologize to the players. But Smith notes that, “Last year Feinstein said Duke should go further than just canceling […]

New SbB Girl Teressa in Venice, California:

CHUCK’S PRE-FIGHT CLUBBING HAD JACKSON ON RAMPAGE: After being spotted partying in Vegas nightclubs on more than one occasion the week leading up to his one-side loss to Quinton Jackson, UFCer Chuck Liddell has addressed the issue in the LOS ANGELES TIMES.

Liddell, who was also photographed at a Vegas club immediately after he was knocked […]

MAYNE LINE ABOUT NASCAR HAS COLUMNIST NOT SO ‘GAY’: ALLENTOWN MORNING NEWS columnist Jay Hart is seething mad over a cliched comment Kenny Mayne made about NASCAR on ESPN SportsCenter last Sunday night.

Here’s what Mayne said: “If Cletus, Jebadiah, Clanson [and] Susan — NASCAR has gone mainstream, after all — are not at work on […]