http://www.sportsbybrooks.com Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:41:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Has the shine worn off LeBron James in Cleveland? From the latest development from Cleveland city leaders and Nike, it appears that's a possibility. The CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER reports today the Cleveland Planning Commission refused to approve a 10-story mural of James on a downtown building because it was "overt" advertising. ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/city-of-cleveland-shoots-down-lebron-billboard-27056 I live for non-sequiturs so I'm delighted to reported that former Miss California Carrie Prejean is now dating Rams backup QB Kyle Boller. RadarOnline.com reports the two met last summer and that Prejean recently dedicated her new book to Boller: (Delightful coupling actually first reported last August) "To my Kyle: I ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kyle-boller-bags-sex-taped-beauty-queen-prejean-27055 Two weeks ago an urban gossip blog reported that the fiancee and baby momma of Gilbert Arenas, Laura Govan, was having a sexual relationship with Shaquille O'Neal. The blog even went so far to publish alleged email correspondence between the two. The day after the blog report, O'Neal's wife Shaunie, who ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/gil-arenas-has-strange-painful-message-for-shaq-27054 Another shot of Kiana Kim from her appearance on the Hoffman and Nuno show @ KGOW-AM in Houston this week: It's nice to see that Pete Rose is seeing through his promise to manage her nude modeling career. No truth to the rumor though that's where Pete keeps a jar of ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/pete-roses-girlfriend-wears-translucence-well-27053 Diane Pucin of the LOS ANGELES TIMES has the delightful news that 50 Cent's entourage roughed up Marv Albert as the broadcaster waited to guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night.  As Albert arrived, with an entourage of one, TNT public relations specialist Jeff Pomeroy, there was a sudden scuffle when ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/memo-to-50-cent-marvs-bite-worse-than-his-bark-27052 Pete Carroll guested on the (Steve) Mason & (John) Ireland show on ESPN 710 in Los Angeles this week. The coach attempted to hedge his comments about Harbaugh's decision to go for two with his Stanford team already ahead of Carroll's USC Trojans 48-21 last Saturday in L.A.. But instead, ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/carroll-to-jim-harbaugh-im-not-forgetting-it-27051 John Taylor at NBCSports.com's College Football Talk sources a very different side to the Mark Mangino saga at Kansas. Taylor cites a "school source with knowledge of the situation" who accuses Kansas Athletic Director Lew Perkins of a "convoluted vendetta" against Mangino which includes deceiving Jayhawk football players into speaking ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nbcsportscom-ku-ad-fired-instead-of-mangino-27050 Last we left 68-year-old Pete Rose and his early-20s, Asian companion, he was begging her to take her clothes off for all of us. I'm happy to report today that he's succeeded, and given his special lady a name: Kiana Kim. (Pete? Where's Pete?) "Kiana Kim" appeared with Rose on Hoffman ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/pete-rose-girlfriend-has-name-voice-no-clothes-27049 LSU's student paper, THE DAILY REVEILLE, reports the Ku Klux Klan will stage a university-approved protest on the Ole Miss campus Saturday from 10am to 11pm. The Rebels host LSU in a football game at 3:30 ET. Shane Tate, the North Mississippi great titan for the Mississippi White Knights of the ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/oh-hell-nah-kkk-planning-rally-ole-miss-game-27048 In case you don't know, the Boston Red Sox was the last MLB team to sign a black player - 14 long years after Jackie Robinson inked a deal with the Dodgers. Because of that, there's been plenty of speculation as to why it took the Bosox so long to ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/smoking-gun-red-sox-owner-was-blatant-racist-27047