Kellogg's recent dumping of Michel Phelps as its spokesman had at least one unexpected consequence: The sudden appearance of about 3,800 pounds of cereal at the San Francisco Food Bank. Kellogg's, one of the many corporations to tell Phelps to get out and stay out as their spokesman after his love o...

The Sydney Morning Herald as an interesting article on Aussie swimmer Eamon Sullivan.  The paper followed Sullivan around and interviewed him, friends and coach.  You can read it at smh.com.au.  Here are a few snippets: "A silver medal isn't the worst thing in the world,&q...

Junior magazine has released outtakes from the cover spread with model Rodrigo Calazans. 20-year-old actor Kayky Brito, who is on the cover of gay magazine DOM this month, posed for Quem magazine. You will probably not be seeing pictures of Jesus Luz at the Kabbalah Center next weekend. The model ha...

Art & Anarchy is unleasing an anti-Olympic art show this week. In combat against the Culural Olympiad, the weeklong event features revolutionary art made by anti authoritarian artists: paint, theatre, sculpture, performance, carvings and song, all situated to confront the Olympics and destroy ca...

On Sunday, there were five games on the 2009 World Baseball Classic schedule. The first game saw Cuba hit six long balls on their way to beating South Africa 8-1. Then the Dominican Republic bounced back from their stunning defeat against the Netherland to beat Panama by a final score of 9-0. The Un...

A news report beamed to us from the year 1994, brings together two names you never thought you'd see in the same sentence*—Tonya Harding and George Steinbrenner. A new biography of Steinbrenner talks about George's generous support of amateur athletics and alleges that back in the day, he even...

If you've ever played badminton, you know that the thing you hit, called a shuttlecock, never goes as fast as you want it to. No matter how hard you hit it, it always slows down to a boring speed incapable of causing any destruction whatsoever. That is, unless you're Korean Olympic badminton gold me...

Thrilla in vanilla: Michael Jackson's press conference announcing some London shows he'll soon cancel was not exactly a thriller. See the video Scanner Emily shared yesterday. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has decided to turn down a job in the Obama Administration. Hero of the day: the nurse who bought a...

We've already said quite a bit about Slumdog Millionaire and how it opened up a can of whoop-ass at the Oscar's, possibly fed by the movie's appeal as 'poverty porn'. International Herald Tribune has a sweet, interesting article on how Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire may be irking some of In...

From the London Times: Security arrangements at all major sporting events have been cast into doubt after Islamist extremists adopted deadly new terror tactics by attacking international sportsmen. A dozen gunmen remained at large after opening fire in Lahore on the Sri Lanka cricket team, who were ...