Jack Nicholson proved how crazy he is for his favorite baseball team, by reprising his infamous character from "The Shining" on the Jumbotron at the new Yankee Stadium yesterday.
Unfortunately the Yankees lost 8-4 to the Mariners. Redrum.
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Ron Artest is officially a Los Angeles Laker -- this according to a verbal commitment he made with a TMZ photographer outside of a club at 1 AM this morning.
It's reported the Lakers have offered Ron $18.7 million for three years or $33.5 million for five years -- so we'll gladly take our 20% fee once ink hits paper.
You're welcome, L.A.
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The pregnant woman caught in the wake of "Rampage" Jackson's crazy monster truck chase last year claims the UFC star caused "the stillbirth of her baby" when he rammed into her car.
Holli Griggs filed a lawsuit against Rampage in Orange County, California -- claiming he repeatedly rammed into her car "so he could escape and flee the scene (hit and run)." Griggs says "the impact of her abdomen with the steering wheel caused her amniotic fluid membranes (bag of waters) to rupture, ultimately resulting in the stillbirth of her baby."
FYI -- Rampage was never charged in relation to the death after an investigation revealed that the miscarriage was unrelated to the accident.
Griggs filed the suit anyway, claiming Rampage owes her more than $25k for property damage, personal injury and emotional distress.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Talk Sports
Laila Ali is fighting her husband's ex-wife, who now wants to drag Muhammad Ali into her child support battle.
Laila's hubby, former NFL star Curtis Conway, has been embroiled in a financial battle with his ex, Leoria Sanamu Conway. Leoria wants more child support and she's apparently trying to prove Conway is now rolling in cash courtesy of his wife.
Leoria is trying to subpoena Laila's financial info, including "her inheritance or potential inheritance." Laila and her hubby have asked the judge to block the request, arguing it's a blatant invasion of privacy and "clearly designed to harass and burden Ms. Ali."
They've been battling it out in court all week. So far, no ruling.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Dirty Divorces
Dennis Rodman says whether or not he boozed it up and bolted from a Super Bowl party, he still deserves to get paid -- and now he's going in for the kill.
Rodman made a deal to host a party in Tampa for four hours at $20,000. But the company that agreed to pay him claims he stayed less than three hours... and that's why it stopped payment on the $7,500 balance.
There's another reason why the company stopped payment -- it claims Rodman and his posse racked up a whoppin' $10,000 in additional expenses, including lots and lots of liquor.
Rodman may get the last laugh, because the company never responded to his lawsuit for the $7,500, so he just won a default judgment -- which means you snooze, you lose.
But Dennis has another money menace to worry about ... there's this little $225,000 judgment against him for slapping a chick's butt.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt, Talk Sports
Joanna Krupa has a mouth like a sailor -- and for some reason, it only makes her hotter.
Warning: This clip has REALLY, REALLY bad language.
Somehow, someway, a clip from the new show "The Superstars" got leaked to the 'net and picked up by our friends over at WithLeather. The clip shows Krupa cussing like crazy as she loses some physical challenges and then bashing NFL star Terrell Owens -- her teammate -- for screwing up.
She's absolutely perfect.
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Eric Dickerson played for the Los Angeles Rams for five seasons (and the L.A. Raiders for one) -- but Dickerson says the NFL will never come back to L.A. because its fans are nothing but spoiled little children.
Go Lakers!
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Not every celeb can send the paparazzi scurrying with one sentence -- but not every celeb is 7 feet tall, like Boston Celtics star Kevin Garnett. 
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LeBron James is good and he has no problem reminding people about it. 
A few days after slyly pointing out to people he won the Most Valuable Player award, King James was spotted in St. Tropez yesterday directing people to his bank account for further affirmation of his supremacy.
Humility is overrated.
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Tony Hawk has some massive ball bearings -- dude was not only brave enough to mount his skateboard and shred the checkered tile of a White House hallway, he took photos of the daring act and then posted them on his Twitter page. 
Take a good look, because these could be the last photos of Tony you'll ever see.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Politix
He's not even a shoe-in to play -- but the mere rumor that suspended L.A. Dodgers cheater Manny Ramirez will make his baseball comeback with a AAA team in New Mexico is already sending ticket sales "through the roof."
After the L.A. Times reported Manny would join the Albuquerque Isotopes line-up on Tuesday, a rep for the team told us phones began ringing off the hook for tickets and a line formed "around the block 30 minutes before the box-office opened its doors." FYI -- the rep told us the Dodgers haven't officially confirmed Manny's return.
Manny is currently serving a 50-game suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug back in May -- and the reason the Dodgers would send him to the minor leagues would be to ease him back into form.
Meanwhile, the Manny-less Dodgers have the best record in baseball.
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Protests raged on today in Iran as the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared a "definitive victory" for President Mahmo... hey is that guy wearing a Steelers jersey? Yes. Yes he is! He is definitely wearing a Steelers jersey! Goooo Steeeeee-lahs!
In what has to be an attempt to instill fear in the hearts of his oppressors, this valiant man figuratively let his hair down and donned the jersey of one the most feared NFL defensive players on the planet -- Troy Polamalu.
Thanks to our friends at Deadspin -- via PSAMP -- for spotting that guy's undeniable awesomeness.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Politix
What, were all the "Check out my racket" shirts sold out?
Serena Williams directed attention to her incredible body of work yesterday while jogging in Wimbledon. In case you're wondering, she has 20 Grand Slam titles -- 10 single, 8 women's doubles and 2 mixed doubles.
She's a top performer.
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14 major NHL hockey players are suing a developer named Kenneth Jowdy for allegedly screwing them out of millions of dollars -- and then blowing the cash on escorts, strippers and private jet rides for some of the biggest names in Major League Baseball history. 
The list of NHL players includes some of the sport's most famous guys -- Michael Peca, Sergei Gonchar, Chris Simon, Greg deVries, Jason Woolley, Mattias Norstrom, Vladimir Tsyplakov, Jay McKee, Raymond Murray, Glen Murray, Bryan Berard, Dimitri Khristich, Jozef Stumpel and Darryl Sydor.
The players claim they each invested between $250,000 - $500,000 with Jowdy -- who allegedly promised to use their money to develop a luxury golf course and resort.
Instead, the suit alleges the money was blown on private jets, 5-star hotels, and parties with various female porn stars, escorts, strippers, party girls and other women for MLB greats like "Roger Clemens, Reggie Jackson, Joe Morgan and Pete Rose (to name a few)."
The NHL players are suing for at least $15 million.
UPDATE: Joe Morgan just sent us this statement: "It's unethical to use my name when I never went to any of those parties, nor was I involved in any other activities."
Filed under: Talk Sports
Orlando fans weren't the only ones who couldn't care less about the Los Angeles Lakers' victory parade yesterday. Jerry Buss -- the dude who owns the team lock, stock and barrel -- had better things to do ... playing poker at a cheesy casino all by his lonesome.
Jerry was so engrossed in his hand at the Bicycle Casino -- 10 miles from the parade route -- he wasn't even looking up at live TV coverage of the celebration. We're thinkin' any other owner would be leading the band!
Turns out, this is S.O.P. for Jerry. His peeps tell us Buss has never attended a championship parade because he hates the traffic and the attention.
Hope he's not bettin' with the Lamar Odom money ....
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