MICHAEL VICK: GOING DOWN

Oh, I love the continued fall out. One of Vicks rejects-in-crime, Tony Taylor (above) will be sentenced Dec. 14, after agreeing to cooperate with the government in the dog fighting scandal. Taylor entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities, and conspiring to sponsor a dog in an animal-fighting venture. He faces up to 5 years in prison, but most likely he’ll serve a lot less time and pay a hefty fine. One thing that did make me chuckle, is the sale of Michael Vick items on Ebay. For a split second, I thought there might be a few rejects out there that would actually bid for his shit. We’ve seen celebrity scandal memorabilia hawked before, but really what value do these items hold? How could anyone in his or her right mind ever walk around in public donning a Vick jersey- that’d be akin to tattooing a swastika on your face. And who wants a Vick jersey collecting dust in their closet when the reject is banished from society? The answer: not a soul.

After checking out the Vick items listed on Ebay, I found that most items have zero bids. Two of his unsigned jerseys cant even fetch the $9.99 starting bid, and only one idiot has bid on an autographed Vick jersey for a whopping $89.00. One seller though is doing the right thing. Seller ‘Dogs Deserve Better’ is auctioning off her personal items and donating all proceeds to the Human Society through the Mission Fish Charity Site. (Item number: 130138472235) Other items available from other members include conVicked T-shirts from someone in the UK, My Dog Hates Vick, and a Sack Vick PETA T-shirt (Item number 110153236891) but Im not sure the proceeds go to PETA so double check before bidding.

FIBA AND MUTOMBO

Love from FIBA in the form of $100k! The International Basketball Federation (aka FIBA) has made a massive donation to Dikembe Mutombo for his hospital in Kinshasa. “Dikembe Mutombo is one of the most outstanding personalities in basketball and a role model for all basketball players in the world – both off and on the court,” said FIBA Secretary General Patrick Baumann. “We are pleased to support his initiative in Kinshasa with a small contribution and hope that his projects will be a great example for others.” On the occasion of their 75th anniversary, FIBA and the French Basketball Federation donated on Saturday $100’000 to the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation. The check was presented during half time of the 75th anniversary celebration game between Switzerland and France. (FIBA.com) Thank you FIBA…

CADDIE ON THE SPOT
Next time you’re out stalking our kats crawling the greens, find a hottie who’s not getting along with his caddie. The Toronto Star reports that golf-kat Jay Williamson got into a spat with his caddie and yanked 69-year-old Don Alexander from the crowd to take over the role.

“Every year I love to go out and watch a group that nobody’s going to follow except maybe their girlfriends,” said Alexander, who played in the 1962 Canadian Open as an amateur. “I love golf and I want to see how these guys make their living out here. I got a pretty good group there, with (Scott) Gump, Williamson and (John) Mallinger. They shot some pretty good scores. There were only a few of us watching them the whole way. At the 14th hole, Williamson hit it over the green and he and his caddy started having words. It got hotter and hotter and hotter. I was talking to the caddy’s girlfriend and she started giving me the background music and I thought, `Uh-oh. This isn’t good.’ At the 15th tee they went at it again and Williamson fired him on the spot. The caddy then threw a handful of golf balls into the lake and stormed off. Said he’d see him in the clubhouse, that kind of thing. Williamson turned to us – there were maybe five of us – and asked who wanted to go to work. A younger guy named Mike said he’d do it. I don’t know if Williamson didn’t want another man named Mike, or what, but he didn’t want him. I said, `I’m your man.”’ (Toronto Star)

CAPTAIN TERRY FOR FIVE

England and Chelsea babe, captain fantastic John Terry finally signed a new five-year contract with the Barclays Premier League powerhouse on Friday. “I’m really happy this has now been concluded,” Terry told chelseafc.com. “There has been a lot of speculation but these things take time and I never had any doubts I wanted to stay at Chelsea and that the club wanted me to stay. I hope the fans can see we are all trying to build something special here, both for now and the future, and I want to be a part of that. I have been at Chelsea all my career and have the privilege of being captain. Now it’s time to look forward to the new season, which we are all very confident about.”

BANDITS TARGETING ATHLEBRITY HOMES?
In 2004, Ravens defensive back Corey Fuller was confronted by two armed robbers outside his Tallahassee house. One robber chased Fuller into his house where his wife and children were sleeping, but Fuller was able to grab a gun and fire at the attackers, who then ran away. This year, Heat hottie Antoine Walker and a relative were bound at gunpoint while multiple robbers took a car, cash and jewelry from his home in Olympia Fields Illinois. And this weekend, three masked robbers broke into the Chicago home of New York Knicks beast Eddy Curry where they restrained him, his family and an employee with duct tape inside the Burr Ridge home. Luckily, no one was injured and the robbers made off with some cash and jewelry. Obviously, the bandits are getting creative and more brazen. There have been numerous reports of gangs breaking into the Hollywood homes of Los Angeles celebs to loot the mansions while the cats are away, but it seems that maybe the bandits are shifting their focus and attacking our sports hotties in their homes now. I just can’t understand why are they busting into homes when our hotties are there? Isnt it much easier to sneak in the window, grab a pair of boxers, a used towel, a few t-shirts and a Lindeberg sock and slither out before someone comes home? Silly bandits.

LEWIS HAMILTON’S GIRLFRIEND

London has its fair share of tabloids, and in Sundays Mirror they ran a story that made me laugh really hard. The piece titled ‘My love for Lewis’ is embarrassing on so many levels. Lewis Hamilton’s on-again-off-again romance with Jodia Ma is the centerpiece of the article, in which she says: “I am just so proud of Lewis and always will be” and the kicker is this line: “I’m flattered that people take such an interest in US”…. Us? Note to Joia, its not an interest in “us” that’s going on, its an interest in Lewis Hamilton. You know, the man you dumped because he was so busy and then ran back to when he became ‘famous’? One can only hope that Lewis Hamilton has more of a backbone than Tony Longoria. (Mirror)

As always, thanks for reading. Delinda
delinda@athlebrities.