• SPORTS CRACKLE POP cycles up some good reasons to pay attention to this year’s Tour de France - all the lovely ladies lining the route.

• Meanwhile, EDDIEBEAR suggests this fellow try out for next year’s Tour, if only for the hilarity that will surely ensue.

• Kobe Bryant & Joey Gathright must be proud: THE 700 LEVEL jumps at the chance to show this Philadelphia Soul Arena Football player getting some elevation over the opposing kicker.

• The FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM fishes up news that golf stud Tony Romo took a tumble into a pond & had to be rescued by Jeremy Roenick.

• GOING FIVE HOLE found someone who took the time to put the NHL’s Brian Burke-Kevin Lowe feud into a song to the tune of Green Day.

• BAUER-GRIFFIN drives up news that an early Wimbledon exit didn’t damper Maria Sharapova’s spirits at a 60th birthday party for Land Rover.

• Dan Connolly of the BALTIMORE SUN believes MLB should put a halt to the Home Run Derby.

• The Sonics may not have landed in Oklahoma City just yet, but they already have a fanblog up & running.