8:00 PMJeRome Wilkins, a former University of New Hampshire football player accused of sexually assaulting a woman outside a house, said in court Friday that he did have sex with the woman but that it was consensual.
7:30 PMRafael Nadal says he was given a surprise drug test Saturday a few days after a French TV show lampooned doping allegations against Spanish athletes.
• Mike DeCourcy of SPORTING NEWS can’t stop yawning in anticipation of the upcoming bowl season.• John Ziegler of TIGERWOODSISGOD.COM finally gets a chance to speak to his divine inspiration.
NO MORE BEGGING FOR SPEEDSKATER’S NUDIE PICCIES: As expected, a couple more semi-nude photos of Kiwi inline speedskater Nicole Begg have been uncovered.
The 19-year-old blonde Begg’s “motivation is to raise her profile in the hope of attracting a sponsor and also to promote inline skating.”
Her dad reminds us a little of Jessica Simpson’s father (Joe “my daughter has double-d cups” Simpson) with his creepy comments: “Begg’s father Bill, a coach, said his daughter had also posed for the photographs because the official World Inline Cup magazine wanted a sexier image. ‘It got beach volleyball in the Olympics and that’s where we would love to be.’“