• The NEW YORK TIMES volleys up the tale of one obsessive AVP fan.

• SIGNAL TO NOISE serves up SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’s lead tennis writer defending Justin Gimelstob’s little anti-Anna Kournikova rant.

• ESPN’s Pedro Gomez discovers the stadium that hosted Sunday’s Euro 2008 final also once hosted Jewish inmates as a World War II Nazi prison.

• PRO FOOTBALL TALK can’t stand the new Chiefs’ stadium policy, and you won’t stand for it, either.

• GOING FIVE HOLE feels good that the Red Wings’ Pavel Datsyuk is such a big James Brown fan.

• THE OKLAHOMAN drives up news that ex-Sooners national champ QB Jamelle Holieway has been thrown in jail for not paying his parking tickets.

• The CENTRE (PA) DAILY TIMES hungers at word that LaVar Arrington will soon be opening a “Linebacker U” sports bar at State College.

• SLAM DUNK CENTRAL picks up the pace with former Pacer Rik Smiths.