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The Flip Side - Jul. 5

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By MICK ELLIOTT | The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 5, 2008

Thinking out loud until it started to hurt...

The Rays have become such a real contender, counterfeit tickets to get into the Trop have been showing up. The direct opposite of how things used to go.

Good pitching, timely hitting, great defense. If this keeps up, Cooperstown will soon open its new "Catwalk Exhibit."

Brett Favre was spotted alive and breathing last week, setting off speculation that he plans to come out of retirement.

Ex-golfer Greg Norman reportedly spent $2 million on his wedding to tennis legend Chris Evert, a seaside ceremony held under a veil of tight security on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Wow, do you know how many second-place finishes it takes to raise that kind of money?

Uga VI, the bulldog that represented the University of Georgia during two Southeastern Conference football championships, died from congestive heart failure at his home in Savannah. Very sad. No mascot ever licked so many opponents and himself.

Before being pinched on a DUI arrest in Boston, Jacqueline Kent Cook, the daughter of former Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, reportedly pulled up her skirt to moon the officer, gave him the middle finger and asked if he knew who her father was. Remember the good old days when you had to be famous in your own right to be so obnoxious?

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Ricky Williams mentioned that after football he would like to go to medical school to be an osteopathic physician so he "can offer patients a holistic approach to healing." In fact, he has already applied for admission into the Nate Newton Medical College.

Early indicators aren't good for the upcoming Beijing Games. With an algae bloom choking large stretch of the coastline that is to be used for Olympic sailing competition, now come reports of a locus invasion moving toward the city. Come on. The last thing with so must promise for failure was newspaper-employee profit sharing.

The University of Kentucky Basketball Museum, located near the entrance to Rupp Arena, has shut its doors due to falling attendance and financial problems. I'm shocked. If Wildcats fans don't have the past, where are they going to live?

Branded with an asterisk, Barry Bonds' record 756th career home run ball finally is headed to the Hall of Fame. Do the think the same thing could work with Bonds?

While attending the annual NFL rookie symposium held to teach proper conduct, a fight broke out between recent Buccaneers draft picks Aqib Talib and Cory Boyd. And now Jon Gruden will praise each player's high level of competitiveness.

Joe Buck, Fox's national baseball broadcast voice, admits to no longer enjoying the sport he covers, saying games last too long and all look the same. You know, sort of like Christie Brinkley's divorce trials.

Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna are an item just as their marriages are disintegrating has the celebrity gossip world buzzing. Even Joe Buck is paying attention.

Miami Heat first-round draft pick Michael Beasley returned to practice one day after being knocked out of his first official summer-league workout with a chest bruise suffered when he was inadvertently elbowed. That'll teach him to get between Pat Riley and his mousse.

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