• After a purported pic of pot pops up on his Twitter account, Miami Heat player Michael Beasley has been checked into a rehab facility.
• Car accidents? Plane crashes? Stranded in the Canadian wilderness for days? Junior hockey coach Punch McLean has survived it all.
• Will American sports teams soon follow their European counterparts and start banning unruly fans from their games?
• Ron Zook takes exception to Urban Meyer’s recent mutterings about the Zooker’s alleged terrible treatment of Florida freshmen.
• ESPN plans on showing this season’s USC-Ohio State football match-up in 3-D. Cringe in terror as Jim Tressel’s sweater vest engulfs you!
• How do you celebrate the end of the IAAF track & field championships? By brawling with some Berlin bouncers, of course!
• A Minnesota mechanic saves a goat painted up like a certain new Vikings QB from ritual slaughter.
• Dirk Nowitzki’s ex-lady love lands herself a five-year prison sentence.
• Fanbase: A new sports reference website for the fans, by the fans. Expect the New York baseball pages to contain ample inserts of “YANKEES SUCK!”
• Miss Venezuela named Miss Universe for the second straight year. Damn you, Hugo Chavez!
