• David Beckham gives a valuable tip - $900 on a $100 check:

• Asking Austrian attendees to strip for a soccer stadium shoot is the naked truth.

• A Chicago-area pilot makes a landing on a golf course - just to get his son to tennis practice on time.

• Suzy Kolber gives birth to a beautiful baby girl - and names her after a Jets QB?

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Kudos to Lauren Bertolini and Matt Gelb of Syracuse Univ.’s DAILY ORANGE as they break the news that Todd Marinovich’s younger brother Mikhail, who plays for the SU football team, was “charged with criminal mischief in the fourth degree after allegedly breaking into the Manley Field House equipment room Sunday morning.”

Somehow, a skateboard and meth were not involved. Instead, the younger Marinovich is accused of breaking “a rolling metal gate to gain entrance to the room, as well as the cylinder lock that held the gate closed.”

But of course, you just knew there had to be some sort of mind-altering substance involved in the alleged crime (and there was). Read more…

• Tired of the NBA’s negative press, ESPN’s J.A. Adande writes about what’s right with the league:

• YOU BEEN BLINDED knows it ain’t nothing but a G thang, as Snoop Dogg gets caught up in the Souljizlle Boy-izzle.• The DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL changes the channel, as this year’s Sox-Rox matchup was the second-lowest watched in World Series history.

• 100% INJURY RATE checks their air miles, as a California high school goes a long way just to grab some ineligible football players:

• PART MULE checks out news that 38-year-old SC QB-turned-druggie skater Todd Marinovich is checking back into rehab.• DEUCE OF DAVENPORT buzzes with news of a new way to build better bones.

• The CHICAGO TRIBUNE pulls up anchor, as this could be the year that Navy sinks Notre Dame:

• THE GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS takes a good, long look, and previews every MLB free agent available.• GHOSTS OF WAYNE FONTES celebrates All Hallow’s Eve by slicing together some of the biggest massacres in sports.

• BIG TEN TAILGATE packs their bags, as a travel agency is already booking BCS Championship charters for Ohio State fans:

• If I’M WRITING SPORTS had been in Staples Center last Tuesday, they certainly wouldn’t have booed Kobe.• MR. IRRELEVANT is confident that the Washington Wizards will have a magical season this year.