SI COLUMNIST OUTS BEARD BOYTOY; BREAKS JENN AGAIN? Arash Markazi’s SI-FanNation blog is fertile ground today. He’s got more on Amanda Beard - including details about her boytoy-of-the-moment, who is seven years her senior and met her on a photo shoot (imagine that!).

Despite Beard’s claim that he is a working photographer, we have our […]

COCAINE CLAIM - RACE DOPE FROM GOTH CHICK ASSAULT: The TORONTO STAR reports today that six-time wheelchair racing world champion Jeff Adams has been suspended for two years and had his training funds cut off after a positive doping test for cocaine after a race in Ottawa.

Adams met the media with his lawyer yesterday to […]

GIVE US SEVEN LBS OF MEAT DAILY - BUT HOLD THE FRIES: The Russian media outlet PRAVDA details the diets of top local athletes, including Marat Safin, Nikolai Valuev and assorted Central Asian anonymities.

Most notable is the table habits of the 7-2, 300+ pound Valuev, the sideshow boxer promoted by Don King. As you might […]

CLIPS AREN’T ONLY DISENFRANCHISED IN DOWNTOWN L.A.: So if you don’t live in L.A., you may be unaware that downtown Los Angeles is home to the largest homeless population in the United States. But the city is presently doing all it can to reduce the massive number of centralized, disenfranchised individuals - and making good […]

SbB Girl Cecilia in Marina Del Rey, California:

IS IT TIME FOR NBA PLAYERS TO STOPPING GETTING HIGH? The Seattle-based CROSSCUT magazine reports on an experiment by local basketball players that may serve to uplift hoops fans in light of the deflating NBA Finals and now-intramural-esque nature of March Madness.

Excerpt: “Saturday afternoon at the University of Washington’s Hec Edmundson Pavilion, they’ll (local […]