• Heidi Watney is starting to receive Erin Andrews-levels of obsession.

• Emmitt Smith will no longer be enjoyed on ESPN’s “NFL Countdown“.

• With Internet problems all around Beijing, Olympic Village athletes will have to get their porn the old fashioned way - from dirty books at the local bookshop.

• Meanwhile, gender testers at the Games just want to make sure girls will be girls.

• “Sun-ny day, beating the clouds away” - Cubs fans pummel a White Sox supporter while attending a 2-year-old’s Sesame Street birthday party.

• Tim Donaghy sentenced to 15 months in prison? You bet!

• Manute Bol hopes to help build schools in his native Sudan.

• Could Manny be Manny with the Mets? Has the Dodgers’ desire for Ramirez been defeated by the Angels acquiring Mark Teixeira?

• We’re all shook up here in SoCal over today’s 5.4 earthquake.

• The Oakland A’s will raise money for diabetes research by selling sweet & sugary root beer floats. That ain’t right.