• Threesomes, nudity, threatening to have sex with others - this Shawne Merriman-Tila Tequila story just keeps getting better & better!

• But sleeping around isn’t always so much fun - especially when it’s leading to the divorce of Melanie Oudin’s parents.

• The Dallas Cowboys are the hottest ticket in the NFL this year. It’s so hot, it’ll burn a $800-per-game hole in your wallet.

• Bode Miller wants to start his very own winery. Bottoms up!

• Ex-NFL lineman Orlando Brown breaks into his ex-wife’s house & trashes the place - but not before leaving a little present in her toilet.

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As sports fans and followers of the college recruiting game, we’re used to seeing some pretty shady stuff go on between coaches, players, and boosters. Whether it’s $100 golden handshakes to football players at postgame tailgates, negative recruiting tactics amongst coaches, or high school prospects who work the system for personal gain - there’s a lot of shady stuff hiding in plain sight.

(You are correct, ladies. This story *is* WAC indeed.)

And while a lot of stuff we’ve heard whispered and seen ourselves probably would constitute NCAA infractions of one sort or another, it’s important to keep these things in perspective. After all, shady recruiting or breaking NCAA practice guidelines isn’t illegal, no matter what rival fans might claim. You know what is illegal, though? Fraud, embezzlement, forgery, perjury, and animal abuse - they’re not your garden variety NCAA violations, but they’re what former University of Nevada soccer coach Terri Petraw claims occurred during her tenure with the Wolf Pack. Ruh-ro.

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We’ve written recently about the multiple headaches facing the Nevada athletic department, including the recent arrest of a men’s basketball starter for confronting football players with a gun at the school’s recreation center and the AD’s sad attempt to shift the focus to the media. Now it looks like the Wolf Pack will need to go into spin overdrive over another, recurring issue: the AP reports that former women’s soccer coach Terri Patraw has rejected the school’s $151,000 settlement offer and will go to trial with her unlawful termination lawsuit.

Back in 2007, Patraw offered her resignation as part of what she called a “bargaining tool.” And an unsuccessful one at that, as the school quickly accepted her resignation and moved.  Afterwards, Patraw filed a lawsuit claiming that the real reason she was let go was because she had reported violations of federal Title IX rules by Nevada to the NCAA, something that Nevada denies.

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