FRENCH OPEN FINALIST TOUTED AS THE NEXT KOURNIKOVA: As we get ready to the watch the Spurs take a steaming dump on the soon-to-be short-lived Lebron James craze, we’ve so far spent today inspecting the demolition of Maria Sharapova by a 19-year-old cutie named Ana Ivanovic.

CNBC’s Darren Rovell is already calling the exotic beauty the […]

SOCCER GAME VISITOR GIVES A HOOT, SUSPENDS PLAY: When it isn’t silly fans interrupting an important soccer match, it’s other fowl characters:

An owl flew in for a Euro 2008 qualifier between Finland and Belgium, causing a six-minute delay in the game. The bird sat on one of the goals, then did a couple of […]

• VARSITY DAD wonders if the sports memorabilia you buy for your kids is really just for you:

• SPORTS LETTER interviews the man who’s starting up the National Sports Museum.
• LION IN OIL knows it pays to stay in school - and costs more if you want to stay out:

• WE ARE THE POSTMEN can’t […]

DANIELS COVERS COLOR AND HILITES OF DUCKS TRIUMPH: The LOS ANGELES TIMES fingered transsexual sportswriter Christine Daniels (who has glammed it in her new mugshot) to head online coverage of the Ducks’ Stanley Cup triumph last night in Anaheim.

We’re guessing Daniels, who hasn’t covered a sports beat for years, was nowhere near the Honda Center […]

MAYNE IS STAR OF SOON-TO-BE-CANCELLED ABC SHOW: John Maynard of the WASHINGTON POST tips us off that ABC’s “Fast Cars & Superstars: Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race” is complete doo-doo.

The show, which is intended to capture the same ratings magic as “Dancing With The Stars”, fails miserably - mainly because the strapped-in celebs only engage […]

IF IT’S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, YOU MAY BE IN RURAL VA.: The RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH reports that virtually all-white, 230-student Christchurch H.S. in rural Virginia has one of the top football recruits in the country, Deion Walker.

Coaches like Pete Carroll and Urban Meyer have visited the tiny school (by helicopter) in the past few […]

SUMMMER SPORTS POWER OUTAGE NOW NO MORE IN KC! They’re dancin’ in the streets of Westport tonight, as we Kansas Citians finally have something to shout about:

What, you were expecting the Royals? Have you forgotten about David Glass already?

TEAM NAME CHANGE HAS FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES: Taking a cue from Angels owner Arte Moreno, the Long Beach Armada of the Golden Baseball League is changing it’s official name:

The team will now be known as the “Long Beach Armada of Los Angeles of California of the United States of North America Including Barrow, Alaska”.

The newly-named LBALACUSNAIBA […]

HEY NBA FANS, CHECK OUT THE BOOBIES ON THAT CHEST: If there’s anything to remember about the 2007 NBA Playoffs, it’s been the plethora of in-the-moment t-shirts.

We had Steve Nash and his broken nose. We were True Blue with the Jazz. And We Believed.
Now fresh off the rack is this item of clothing immortalizing […]