Receiver, 39, to play for Gamecocks once clear: "South Carolina coach Lou Holtz wants to give 'Pops' a chance. He's waiting on the NCAA to agree.
Holtz said Monday 39-year-old walk-on receiver Tim Frisby, nicknamed 'Pops,' will get to play for South Carolina this season once his eligibility is approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse."

Mexican churches using cellphone jammers



MEXICO CITY - Fed up with cellphones ringing during Mass, four Catholic churches in Monterrey, Mexico, are taking extreme measures to silence them. And no, it doesn't involve lightning bolts from heaven.

The four churches are illegally jamming cellphone signals with Israeli-made transmitters, the same kind used to protect embassies and presidential motorcades from bugs and bombs detonated by phone.

The Marmot's Hole » Well, this has to be embarrassing: "An American soldier accused of hitting a Korean man who refused to have sex with him was handed over yesterday to U.S. military police at Uijeongbu, just north of Seoul.
The 27-year-old specialist in the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division, identified only by his last name Robert, hit the Korean, also 27 and identified by his family name Suh, with a blunt instrument, Uijeongbu police said.
Police said the men ran into each other in a park near a U.S. camp in Uijeongbu and had drinks together before the incident. The American soldier was accused only with an act of violence as Suh withdrew his initial accusation of sexual harassment under a mutual agreement."

Custom bobblehead dolls made from your photo

Nugget in nightclub fracas: "No tables were flipped, no chairs tossed, and Carmelo Anthony neither landed nor weathered any punches during a New York nightclub fracas Monday, according to a witness and Anthony's agent.

But these facts are not in dispute: Anthony's MTV-hosting girlfriend, La La Vasquez, was spit on by her ex-fiance during a private bash Monday for rapper Swizz Beatz, the argument then spilled over to a New York hip-hop radio station - and the Nuggets star's offseason continues to be splashed with more drama than one of Beatz's hit songs."

READING, WRITING AND SHOPPING: "NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony was in town Tuesday to teach local kids a lesson about the importance of reading, but he still found time to hawk his pricey new sneakers and flaunt his expensive jewelry. The Denver Nuggets forward appeared at the NBA store on Fifth Avenue to read excerpts from his new autobiography, "It's Just the Beginning," to a young crowd. Anthony had to interrupt the reading when his enormous, diamond-encrusted medallion got caught in the microphone. He ceremoniously removed the iced-out necklace, and later put it around a dazzled preteen girl's neck. Anthony, who dropped out of college after just one year, closed the event with some wise words for the impressionable youths. "My new shoe drops in November. Go get it.""

Check it.
San Gennaro:"The 77th Annual Feast of San Gennaro, New York City's oldest, biggest and best street festival, will be celebrated starting Thursday, September 16, and continuing for 11 days through Sunday, September 26, 2004."

Not gay.
Playmate of the Year charged in assault on Cleveland QB's ex: "Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year, who is dating Cleveland Browns quarterback Jeff Garcia, has been charged with assault over a bar fight with his ex-girlfriend.

Garcia was out with girlfriend Carmella DeCesare, reigning Playboy Playmate of the Year, when they were confronted Aug. 21 by his ex-girlfriend in a nightclub."

Amazon.com: Books: How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men: "Mr. Quan is an International Business Consultant. He has travelled and worked in many countries. For more than fifteen years, he has successfully dated women of many nationalities. He has provided here, his observations in dating White women and his thoughts on the subject of a romantic relation of an Asian man with a White woman."

Amazon.com: Books: How to Attract Asian Women:"Ming Tan, a Chinese-American writer who grew up in New York City, is the founder of a website that has helped numerous men understand and attract Asian women."

In ABC's fall lineup is a drama called Lost which stars a Korean actor and a Korean actress. We've finally recovered from Margaret Cho.

ABC.com - : "Evangeline Lilly, Ian Somerhalder, Dominic Monaghan, Jorge Garcia, Maggie Grace, Malcolm David Kelley, Naveen Andrews, Harold Perrineau, Josh Holloway, Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim"

Chien-Ming Wang!
New York Post Online Edition: sports: "the Yankees need a starter and are going to call up a hurler from Columbus (Triple-A). Brad Halsey, who is slated to start Game 1 of the International League playoffs Wednesday, is the leading candidate. Chien-Ming Wang, who is slated to start Game 2 Thursday, is an option."

Bush Fails to List Korea in 'Coalition of the Willing': "He also specifically named eight countries -- Great Britain, Poland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, El Salvador, and Australia -- that had sent troops to join in the coalition of the willing. However, he did not mention Korea, which had sent the third largest number of soldiers to Iraq, following U.S. and the Great Britain."

Britney's trash is a fan's treasure



NEW YORK (AP) -- Britney Spears' fans don't think the pop star's chewed gum is "Toxic" -- they're buying wads of it on eBay.

Bosnians to honour Bruce Lee: "IN Bosnia, where one man's hero is often another man's villain, citizens have decided to honour someone Serbs, Croats and Muslims can all look up to - kung fu great Bruce Lee.

Lee is best remembered for single-handedly taking on dozens of bad guys in a series of kung fu flicks.

But the statue of the Chinese action hero in the ethnically-divided city of Mostar is intended to remind people of Lee's lesser known values - 'loyalty, friendship, skill and justice', said Veselin Gatalo, a writer who helped come up with the idea."

Bosnians to honour Bruce Lee: "IN Bosnia, where one man's hero is often another man's villain, citizens have decided to honour someone Serbs, Croats and Muslims can all look up to - kung fu great Bruce Lee.

Lee is best remembered for single-handedly taking on dozens of bad guys in a series of kung fu flicks.

But the statue of the Chinese action hero in the ethnically-divided city of Mostar is intended to remind people of Lee's lesser known values - 'loyalty, friendship, skill and justice', said Veselin Gatalo, a writer who helped come up with the idea."

Oh no. I take back what I said.

My kind of protest.
RNC-NYC: Axis of Eve Panty Flash Protest: "Axis of Eve Panty Flash Protest": "I don't really know what they were shouting at the time, but a cadre of chyxxors performed a panty flash mob during RNC protests yesterday. BoingBoing reader Cyrus Farivar took some snapshots of the action, which was organized by Axis of Eve at Battery Park."

You can buy your own protest panty from Axis of Eve. Where is the protest male thong?

Most enjoyable front page in recent memory.

The Sun Newspaper Online - UK's biggest selling newspaper: "LITTLE superstar Romeo Beckham tops today's birthday file. Posh and Becks' son is two."