BRIT TEEN WINS 5 MEDALS AT WORLD TRANSPLANT GAMES: A young British athlete proves that you can take his kidney, but you can’t take his heart:

icBERKSHIRE tells the tale of Adam Phillips, a 13-year-old who bagged five medals at the recent World Transplant Games in Bangkok, Thailand.
Phillips grabbed the gold in the 100-meter dash, long […]

LAVIN SHRUGS OFF WEDDING FIASCO, FINALLY TIES KNOT: After claiming he was forced to cancel his wedding in Laguna Beach last month because of an overwhelming response to wedding invitations, Steve Lavin finally got married last weekend in Europe:

An anonymous former Bruin player under Lavin has the news on JERSEY CHASER, while also trying to […]

• Maybe it’s on the Ocho: Based on the posters, 100% INJURY RATE wonders if ESPN is really covering a topless ping-pong tournament:

• With all the Barry brewhaha, SIGNAL TO NOISE wants to plant a big ol’ asterisk right in the center of Cooperstown.
• CRASHBURN ALLEY puts in overtime to crunch the numbers of last […]

ISRAEL BASEBALL LEAGUE FRONTMAN HOLTZMAN QUITS: The CHICAGO TRIBUNE has the shocking news that former MLB pitcher and frontman for the new Israel Baseball League, Ken Holtzman, has left the organization “unhappy with the way” it was run.

Holtzman in July told an Israeli website that the playing fields “would reach the level of high schools […]

PRESENTING THE WORST DAY OF OSCAR DE LA HOYA’S LIFE: Cross-dressing photos of Oscar de la Hoya were posted today by gossip website X17online:

If you think this will be covered by the L.A. media (and national media for that matter), you would be wrong. We’re sure those print and electronic outlets will ignore the photos, […]

SIMPSON STILL CELEBRATED BY USC FAITHFUL ON CAMPUS: Having lived in L.A. for some time now, we’ve always gravitated to USC over UCLA. That’s probably because we worked at the flagship broadcast station for the school’s football and basketball games for several years and because we fit more into the mentality of Trojan fans.

Unlike the […]

GOLF BOSSES TEE OFF ON DRUGS APPROACHING THE LINKS: Golfers will have to trade their sand wedge for a specimen cup, as linksmen will soon be tested for drugs:

The LONDON GUARDIAN reports that starting in 2008, pros on the European Tour will be checked for illegal substances before they go out swinging. Players on […]

VOLLEYBALL PLAYER ACCUSED OF KILLING NEWBORN BABY: A former college volleyball player was charged on Tuesday for killing her newborn baby:

FOX SPORTS reports that 18-year-old Teri Rhodes, recently a sophomore at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA, has been accused of suffocating the child as soon as it was born.
Back on August 12, Rhodes left morning […]

Coming down the post-season stretch, the Atlanta Braves stiil seem to have some magic left in their bats:

SbB Girl Anyssa on The Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri:

More pics of the SbB Girls coming tonight.