The Dayton Dragons hosted the Peoria Chiefs in Class A Minor League play yesterday, and right off the bat (pun intended) things went downhill. After 2 hit batsmen and a brushback pitch, Dayton manager Donnie Scott had had enough. His emergence from the dugout naturally brought out Peoria manager Carmelo Martinez. After arguing over whether a foot massage or chai tea was more relaxing, Martinez shoved Scott, and then all Dayton broke loose (Have you ever been to Hell? It’s pretty close to... Read Full Story

In Wellington, New Zealand, a Family Court judge, Rob Murfitt, has laid down a ruling that will hopefully wake up some of the many fruitcake parents who think it’s really clever to give their kid an unusual name. He made a 9 year-old girl, unfortunately named Talula Does the Hula a ward of the court, so that her name could be changed to something less, ahem, colorful. She is involved in a custody battle between parents who, besides the fact that they probably took the short bus to court... Read Full Story

I tried not to write about the former Pregnant Man, Thomas Beatie. On June 29th, Tom gave birth to 9lb. 5 oz. Susan Juliette at Bend (OR) Medical Center. To say this is a very big deal would be understatement. Now, in case you don’t feel like reading the grown-up version of the story, I’ll Readers Digest it for you. Thomas, formerly a beauty-contest contestant and female named “Tracy,” has become the first legal male (albeit transgendered male) to give birth. I’ll save you the joke and... Read Full Story

<< Back Home « Anchorman: The Life and Times of Larry Mendte It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, Its… Preggoman! » The folks at sportsbuy.com and the National Sports Collectors Convention have figured out a scheme to get The Most Hated Man on Chicago’s North Side, Steve Bartman, to surface. They are offering the would-be souvenir catcher $25,000 to appear and sign one autograph on a photo of him destroying long-suffering Cubs’ fans’ hopes of making it to the Series. The event’s in Rosemont, IL... Read Full Story

If you’re reading this at work, someone may be watching you. So give them a big wave. Philadelphia’s KYW-TV News Anchor Larry Mendte was apparently obsessed with his younger, glamorous co-anchor, Alycia Lane. She was a rising star, while he was clearly on the downside of his career. For some reason (jealousy?) he was hacking into her emails, both personal and work, and leaking info on his desk colleague to others, in an attempt to get rid of her (he succeeded). It was like something... Read Full Story

The LA Sparks beat the Detroit Shock in another unremarkable WNBA game. Unremarkable, that is, until the last seconds of the game, which erupted into a full-scale brawl. After Detroit’s Pienette Pierson got all hard with LA’s Candace Parker in retaliation for some rough play on the past possession, Candace told someone to hold her earrings, and it was on. The two teams engaged in some very unladylike behavior, culminating with Detroit coach Rick Mahorn jostling LA’s Lisa Leslie, knocking her... Read Full Story

Two would-be burglars (it would be an insult to actual burglars to lump these clowns in with them) were caught napping by the cops in Monroe, Washington. They had robbed a bunch of pillows, blankets and comforters (maybe they were hoping the judge would go soft on them) from a Fred Meyer store in this town north of Seattle when, obviously plumb tuckered out from their plundering, they decided to take a nap. No doubt they were resting up so they could plan The Big One. Either that or they were... Read Full Story

With half the marriages in the country headed for divorce, and the frequency with which they occur in the celebrity set, breakups are hardly front-page news. And while the troubles within a marriage are often treated as a private matter, the ugliness normally comes out once the couple gets behind the doors of a lawyer’s office. Not so the case with Tricia Walsh-Smith. Unhappy with her deteriorating marriage to Broadway bigshot Philip Smith, she aired her dirty drawers on YouTube in an effort... Read Full Story

Here it comes! The Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the oldest complete version of the New Testament, will be released online Thursday. The University of Leipzig is releasing high-resolution images of the ancient manuscript, starting with the Gospel of Mark and some Old Testament books. They hope to have the entire manuscript on their website by next July. Read Full Story

Well, after all that Hays Commission-era posturing by the FCC and the hue and cry from the various moral and religious leaders, a Federal Appeals Court has tossed the $550,000 indecency fine against CBS for Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson’s obviously-choreographed costuming snafu during the 2004 Super Bowl (how many of you remember what team the Pats beat in that game? Or where it was played? I’ll remind you later). Not only did we add a new phrase to the lexicon (wardrobe malfunction... Read Full Story