FOXSports.com - USA - I figured out years ago it's a good thing everyone doesn't act like me.

Strip clubs would be overcrowded. You'd literally have to call ahead to reserve a champagne room.

Strip-club hostess: "We can get you in with Mercedes on Tuesday at 5 p.m. or there's a 2 a.m. slot on Sunday with Athena. Mr. Whitlock, what would you prefer?"

Selfishly, I'd prefer things stay exactly as they are. The hypocrites can secretly surf the Internet for porn, shop Craiglist for hookers and pretend their twice-a-year sex life with their spouse of five years is satisfying and a one-way ticket to Heaven's gates.

Jesus

PGA.com - USA - Boo Weekley, a standout performer in the 37th Ryder Cup, made an impact in his first celebrity appearance at the 56th PGA Merchandise Show.

Weekley joined PGA of America officers and CEO Joe Steranka to open the largest golf exhibition on the balcony of the main entrance at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

Weekley first used an air horn to get the attention of thousands of attendees, then hoisted the Ryder Cup trophy to a rousing wave of cheers.

"I'm very honored to have been part of a team that won the Ryder Cup, and I'm going to do all

Examiner.com - USA - Luckily for the box office at Gillette, the Revolution is one of David Beckham’s few remaining away games before he bails out of MLS and flies back to Milan. Under the reported agreement (financial transactions not yet disclosed), Beckham will finish the season with Milan in May then play out the 2009 MLS season after the transfer window opens on July 15. Apparently there’s an escape clause in his contract and he won’t be back.

Beckham (and the Galaxy) will play in New England on August 8. Will he be booed for abandoning ship or cheered as Prince Harry was for

Washington Post - United States - When HBO decided earlier this year to pull the plug on "Inside the NFL," the long-running weekly talk and highlight show that actually began on free, over-the-air television 31 years ago, Cris Collinsworth was, by his own description, "stunned."

"I'm still stunned, and the guys at HBO who worked on it are still stunned," he said in a recent telephone interview. "I'm sure it was done for financial reasons. There's an abundance of highlight shows everywhere you look. Maybe the ratings didn't justify the costs. But even so, this was something that was on from the beginning of the (HBO) network,

Bleacher Report, CA - When I think of the ideal NFL player, I think of someone who loves the game, is dedicated to his team and the city he plays for, and always has his head held high. The first person that comes to my mind is the Chicago Bears' very own Brian Urlacher.

It is rare to have someone who is as great at the game as is also a team player for his entire career. When Brian became the staple of the defense, Bears fans, and football fans in general, knew that they had something special.

From his rookie season in 2000, when he

Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - First Tee of Louisville -- a program for youths that promotes character development through golf -- will benefit from two events held in conjunction with the Ryder Cup.

Top golf coach Butch Harmon will share golfing stories, demonstrate the secrets of the swing and answer questions during tonight's "Humana Presents an Evening with Butch Harmon" The event will be from 6:30 to 8:30 at the Brown Theatre.

The 35th annual Taste of Louisville: The Cup and Plate Experience, hosted by the Louisville Chapter of the Kentucky Restaurant Association, promises to tickle your gustatory fancy from 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the

PGA Tour, FL - Ben Crenshaw, on the other hand, knows how to pick his spots. Crenshaw said "fate'' intervened on his behalf during the 1995 Masters when he won his second green jacket only days after he served as a pallbearer at the funeral of his long-time mentor, instructor and friend Harvey Penick.

"I believe in fate,'' Crenshaw said after one of the most emotional victories in the storied history of the tradition-filled major championship. "It was like someone put their hand on my shoulder this week and guided me through.''

Penick's spirit, he said, acted as the 15th club in his bag.

Fast forward to

Boston Globe - United States - Even though Tom Brady's knee injury will end his football season, the marketing machine that surrounds the star quarterback will likely play on, sponsors and advertising executives said yesterday.

The Patriots' future on and off the football field, they said, is less certain.

Major ticket brokers said resale prices for Patriots games dropped 25 percent even before the news yesterday afternoon that Brady was done for the rest of the season. But sponsors are expected continue to support Brady, who racks up $9 million in endorsements annually and whose celebrity status extends beyond the Patriots to his romance with Brazilian model Gisele

Impact Wrestling News - Former WWE Diva Ashley Massaro has been added to Dawn Marie's "Wrestler's Rescue" charity event. Ashley had been promising her fans a "big secret" on her MySpace page for the better part of a month now but hasn't gave any hints as to what that secret is.

The "Wrestler's Rescue" site posted a short biography on Ashley this past week where they described her like this, "Ashley is a Playboy Magazine Celebrity Cover Girl, has co-starred on hit TV series such as "Smallville" and "Survivor China," hosted E! Entertainment's "Wild On E!", graced the covers of and been featured in Flex,

Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA - (NaturalNews) Super-Olympian Michael Phelps, who famously follows a horrendous junk food diet, has now signed a lucrative deal to promote Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes. In doing so, he will leverage his celebrity status to push sugary, processed foods onto a generation of children who already suffer from unprecedented rates of obesity and diabetes. Processed sugar, as you know, promotes both diseases and causes nutritional deficiencies at the same time.

The deal has earned Phelps harsh criticism from some doctors, such as nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sanai Medical Center. In a Daily News article posted this morning, Solomon said,

The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Beijing -- Forty years after his gargantuan long jump in Mexico City obliterated the existing world record by nearly 2 feet, Bob Beamon's "Perfect Flight" remains one of the greatest achievements in Olympic history.

But few realize what a leap it was for him to get there from the New York City borough of Queens, where he was an aimless, troublemaking teen before discovering track and field.

That's how he begins telling his story: Being unable to read or write when he was 14. Being a delinquent and going to an "alternative" school, where he was frisked and locked inside from 8

AHN - USA - Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer
Beijing, China (CNS) - Sure, he is the star of the show now, but will Michael Phelps still be famous after this ends? Experts think his marketability is as fleeting as the Olympics itself.

Phelps conquered the Olympics with numerous gold medals, making him the most decorated Olympian ever to hit the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. While he is undoubtedly a big Olympic star now, he may still not be lucrative enough to swim on the sports marketing pool.

Marketing experts doubt that the 23-year-old power swimmer can hold the public's interest longer than the

AHN - USA - Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer
Beijing, China (CNS) - Sure, he is the star of the show now, but would Michael Phelps still be famous after this ends? Experts think his marketability is as fleeting as the Olympics itself.

Phelps conquered the Olympics with numerous gold medals, making him the most decorated Olympian ever to hit the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. While he is undoubtedly a big Olympic star now, he may still not be lucrative enough to swim in the sports marketing pool.

Marketing experts doubt that the 23-year-old power swimmer can hold the public's interest longer than the

Chicago Daily Herald, IL - A.C. Green, head coach of a Portland 3BA team, will come to Chicago for the first ever demonstration of the new 3-on-3, full-court basketball game.

The high-scring 3BA game is designed to challenge all players at any level, including NBA athletes. Fans can come watch the 3BA game in action at 7 p.m. Saturday at the UIC Pavilion when a team from Portland plays a Chicago team.

Rosters for the Chicago stop of the 3BA Summer Tour were released today with each team fielding the 3BA tour standard of six players. The Chicago entry includes 6-foot guard Jason Price (Iowa Hawkeyes), 6-2

Just Jared - New York,NY,USA - Former Baywatch star Jeremy Jackson, aka Hobie Buchannon, attends the grand opening of the “Christian Audigier The Nightclub” at Treasure Island hotel casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday.

The 27-year-old currently acts as a celebrity endorser for Audigier’s Ed Hardy Clothing and hosts several of its fashion shows around the world.

Jeremy did Baywatch from age 11 to 18. He partly attributes his decision to leave Baywatch to his drug problem and has since talked about his drug addiction on The View.

Swimnetwork.com - Calais, ME, USA - While almost everyone has at least something small to complain about in their daily lives, 2000 Olympic gold and silver medalist Ed Moses is mingling at celebrity-filled parties, the Super Bowl, top-dollar golf tournaments or, when it’s really time to relax, kicking back at home in Florida, pool side, with the air conditioning on. But don’t paint this picture the wrong way, because the pool is purely for décor; Ed isn’t swimming.

The aquatic sport that brought him a great deal of notoriety certainly still holds a special place in his heart, these days Moses is hitting the links with aspirations

TexasSports.com - USA - Former University of Texas point guard D.J. Augustin is in New York City preparing for Thursday night's NBA Draft. A sure-fire first-round pick and possible lottery selection in the upcoming draft, Augustin will look to make it three consecutive years that a Longhorn has been taken among the Top 14 picks (LaMarcus Aldridge, No. 2 in 2006; Kevin Durant, No. 2 in 2007).

Augustin earned both consensus first-team All-America honors and first-team Academic All-America accolades in his sophomore season, becoming just the 15th player in NCAA history to earn both in the same year. The fifth player in UT history to