MAY HE NOW REST IN PEACE, MR. ELDRICK “TIGER” WOODS: Our favorite golf blog WAGGLE ROOM has news that deeply saddens us. Apparently Eldrick “Tiger” Woods is no more. Woods dropped “Eldrick” and legally changed his first name to Tiger over 10 years ago.

CBS golf announcer Peter Kostis broke the news this week in his CBS SPORTSLINE mailbag - in a reply to a questioner who asked why he didn’t use “Eldrick” to address Woods: “First off, Tiger changed his name legally several years ago. Eldrick no long exists. So, we’re not doing anything incorrect by calling him by his real first name, which is Tiger.”

After some intrepid investigation, W-R reports that the name change happened in December of 1996.

We’re just glad we don’t know any of the poor souls who named their kiddo Eldrick after Woods. We guess it could be worse, they could’ve sunk thousands into a #8 Kobe jersey collection.

• IT’S OFFICIAL - BQ LOST $17M BECAUSE OF DRAFT DROP: Brady Quinn signed today, which is news to everyone except us and Darren Rovell. Rovell takes the signing a step further, and reports Quinn officially lost $17M by plummeting in the draft.

Speaking of slap-happy training camp fun, KC Chiefs draft pick holdout Dwayne Bowe has finally signed as well. Today his teammates showed their appreciation for the recently-wrapped negotiations:

• PAUL KATCHER provides the inspiration we need to get off our ass and clean out the garage: “It’s clean-up time at Chez PK.com and that means finding random sh– I’ve been hanging onto for years, like that WWF trading card of Koko B. Ware’s bird, Frankie, and the magazine that marked Sports Illustrated’s landmark moment in homoeroticism.”

OK, maybe not.

• Mike Celizic of MSNBC compares Pete Carroll to Knute Rockne.

Meanwhile Scott Wolf of the L.A. DAILY NEWS reports former Arkansas QB Mitch Mustain’s debut at USC practice this week has been a little nuts.

• DAVE AND THOMAS report Beckham jerseys are outselling A-Rod, LeBron & Peyton.

• Looking to choke off concern over Bejing’s profound pollution problem, the Australian Olympic team won’t be showing up to the Olympics next summer until the last possible second.

If we had to go, we’d be doing the same thing, but it’d have nothing to do with the pollution.