THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL GAMES, SETS AND MATCHES.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH After it was noted here last month that U.S. Olympic sprinters Allyson Felix and Justin Gatlin had been romantically linked since they attended a Hollywood movie premiere together and got a write-up in ESPN The Magazine ESPN The Magazine is a bi-weekly sports magazine published by the ESPN sports network in New Britain, CT in the United States. The first issue was published on March 11, 1998. , we received a concerned e-mail. It was from Paul Felix, the father of the former L.A. Baptist High of North Hills star currently attending USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , who said that ``it was news'' to him, his wife, Gatlin's parents, and the track stars' agent, Renaldo Nehemiah, that they were considered to be ``an item.'' With that in mind, we're going to try to be more careful about who we mention being seen with whom, even if it's already been in the media elsewhere. Such as USC quarterback Matt Leinart is dating Jessica Simpson's personal assistant, Cacee Cobb, which came out on Jimmy Kimmel's show last week. Or Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been ``phone-dating'' LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association golfer Natalie Gulbis, according to Sports Illustrated. Or the Denver Nuggets' Carmelo Anthony, at the ripe old age of 20, gave a 9-carat engagement ring to MTV VJ LaLa Vasquez, as The Denver Post reported. Or ``Desperate Housewives'' hottie Eva Longoria is going one-on-one with San Antonio Spurs The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and are the current NBA Champions after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2007 NBA Finals. guard Tony Parker, as has been reported in the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. . Or Mighty Ducks star Sergei Federov, once spurned by Anna Kournikova, had to rescue actress/girlfriend Tara Reid after she locked herself in a restaurant bathroom, according to the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 . Or new Orlando Magic guard and Pepperdine alum Doug Christie remains married to Jackie Christie, so much so that VH1 is close to finishing a deal with them to star in a new reality show. Or that, by all accounts, Randy Moss remains deeply in love with ... Randy Moss. ... --Just an educated guess, but Leinart's educational pursuits didn't weigh real heavily into the equation. ... --The only person missing at Thursday's USC football news conference was backup QB John David Booty John David Booty (born January 3, 1985, in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.) is the starting quarterback of the University of Southern California (USC) football team. He is called "John David", and sometimes referred to as J.D., because his father's name is John. , declaring his intentions to enter a formal objection. ... --Peyton Manning, meet Jim Kelly. ... --Latest word out of San Fran is that the 49ers have narrowed the candidate search for their new coach down to five. Three are blind, one is deceased and the other has never seen an NFL game. ... --The city of Anaheim has reportedly spent $60,000 for a ``community- outreach program'' called ``Keep The Name The Same'' in protest against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim For the pre-1958 Pacific Coast League team, see . The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California. The Angels are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. . They've already distributed T-shirts through a special Web site and claim they'll send you a free bumper sticker if you e-mail 'em at savetheanaheimangels(at)anaheim.net. ... --Before the new Golden Baseball League The Golden Baseball League, based in Pleasanton, California, is a professional, independent baseball league which operates in the Western United States. The GBL is not affiliated with either Major or Minor League Baseball but features many players with MLB experience (Rickey franchise in Long Beach picked its new nickname - the Armada - it passed on suggestions such as the Justice, Bullfrogs, Beach Bums, Killer Skulls, Shrimpies, Golden Gangsters, Alligators, SharkPack, Bad Tigers, Hammerheads, Thunderbolts, Green Geckos, Smashers and the Pike. Former big-league slugger Darrell Evans manages the Armada in the eight-team independent league, which starts in May. ... --San Diego's famed Torrey Pines, site of the PGA's Buick Invitational this week, took on 8 inches of rain with about a dozen trees going down over the past two weeks before the clouds finally cleared. ... --Without some silly gimmick like pledging a grand for every putt he dropped, Tiger Woods and his foundation donated $100,000 to tsunami relief last week. The PGA Tour matched it. ... --Among the NBA's rebounding leaders, 6-foot-8 Udonis Haslem of Miami and Reggie Evans of Seattle rank ahead of Houston's 7-foot-6 Yao Ming. ... --That $2.5 billion suit Don King claims to have filed against ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network for putting him in a bad light reminds us: buy more roach motels for under the kitchen sink. ... |
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