Score one for Sports Illustrated. In November 2007, the weekly magazine hired sports columnist Selena Roberts away from The New York Times.

Two of four featured athletes touting Guitar Hero products in the video game’s latest commercial are involved in public drug scandals.

The rumors about Madonna and New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez beg for a Muckety map. A-Rod and his wife, Cynthia Rodriguez, are separating, according to the New York Daily News. The split comes amidst infidelity rumors concerning both parties.

Like any sport, baseball needs its villains.

And right now, there’s no better villain than Scott Boras, the California-based sports agent who has the audacity to seek and get really, really good contracts for his millionaire clients.

Boras, 55, is so hateful, it would seem, that he will even upstage the World Series.