• DEADSPIN finds some Red Sox fan rolling along the dugout after Manny Ramirez’s 500th homer.

• USA TODAY’S GAME ON steps up to say high school b-ball phenom Lance Stephenson has narrowed his college choices to USC, UCLA & Kansas.

• AWFUL ANNOUNCING loses their appetite when Chip Caray & Mitch Williams spend some TBS air time chatting in an Applebee’s.

• CHECK MY TAG is relieved that the St. Louis Cardinals’ experiment with peanut-free seating has cracked the media’s attention.

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• Theatergoers are certain to have a toe-tapping, knee-capping good time with Tonya Harding - the musical!

• A Phillies pitcher shares a fun flight with Pee Wee Herman.

• Pete Carroll calls other coaches lazy.

• Even the bathrooms in English soccer are violent.

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The PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS reports that last Saturday at a girls youth basketball game in suburban Philadelphia, Mitch Williams “cursed at a female referee who was calling a basketball game in which his daughter, a fifth-grader, was playing.”

(Salsa Southpaw Hurls Spicy Language)

Williams thought his daughter was getting repeatedly fouled with no calls coming from the official. So, as any right-thinking parent who gave up a World Series-winning home run would do, he dropped an f-bomb on the youth league official. Read more…