At Monday's Boston Marathon, ex-cycling champ Lance Armstrong continued his impressive transition to the 26.2-mile footrace. In his third attempt at the distance Armstrong clocked in at 2 hour, 50 minutes, 58 seconds — a pace of 6:32 per mile — not far off his personal best of 2:46:43…New York Rangers tough-guy center Sean Avery will spend his summer vacation interning for Vogue. "Like most interns, the 28-year-old Avery will be expected to do traditional assistantlike tasks — making copies and messengering couture gowns, for instance," according to Women's Wear Daily. For now the aspiring fashionista continues to play in the NHL playoffs. The Rangers begin the second-round later this week…Dave Letterman is having a bit of sports themed week: On Wednesday Danica Patrick stops by Late Show (April 23, 11:35 pm/ET, CBS) to chat about becoming the first woman to win an Indy Car series race (which she did on Sunday at the Japan 200. On Thursday, recently retired ...
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Lance Armstrong will run 112th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 21. The seven-time Tour de France winner probably could have gotten into the 26.2-mile race based on his celeb status — as Katie Holmes reportedly has — but instead he did it the old-fashioned way: qualifying with an impressive time of two hours, 46 minutes, 43 seconds at the New York City Marathon last November. (The Boston Athletic Association, which organizes the race, is currently negotiating for a national TV broadcast.)....Turner Sports and the NBA are strengthening their relationship next season, with Turner set to take control of programming, marketing and technical operations of NBA TV, the league’s cable channel, as well as the league's websites, including nba.com and wnba.com. TNT's on-air talent will also appear on NBA TV....ESPN has big plans for college lacrosse this spring. ESPNU, the company's college-sports network, will kick off its season Saturday, Feb. 23, when defending NCAA champion ...
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Katharine McPhee has gotten engaged to Nick Cokas, an actor neither you nor I have heard of and who is almost 20 years her senior, People reports.... Sex and the City's Mr. Big, Chris Noth, is expecting a baby with girlfriend Tara Wilson, the New York Post says.... Despite protests from a woman claiming to be the child's (supposedly dead) birth mother, Angelina Jolie can keep 2-year-old Zahara, says the adoption agency that handled the transfer of the Ethiopian infant to her celebufamily.... OMG, Lance Armstrong, like, so doesn't like Ashley Olsen, y'know, like that. (Snicker, snicker.) "[We] are strictly friends," the biker boy tells the New York Post. "We have hung out.... And she strikes me as a nice, smart lady." Did you hear that, Ash? Nice and smart! No wonder his ex Sheryl Crow felt it necessary to announce that "his personal life... is none of my business." Ohhh, there's so gonna be a catfight after gym class! — Ben Katner
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Jessica Simpson and Owen Wilson were spied on a date Sunday night at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica — before (ahem) "retiring" to his Malibu home, says The Star. And just like that, he gets a bedrock of stability in his life.... Ashley Olsen and Lance Armstrong were spotted together at the Rose Bar in New York City, say both Gotham dailies.... Catherine Keener's divorce from Dermot Mulroney was finalized on Tuesday.
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Prince has decided to sue YouTube and a bunch of other websites for unauthorized use of his music so that, according to Reuters, he can "reclaim his art on the Internet." Fine. But he'd damn well better leave my Apollonia videos alone.... According to thesmokinggun.com, Lance Armstrong is as mad as a wet cat — a wet cat with an attorney, I might add — that an Oklahoma firm is peddling pet collars modeled after his yellow "Livestrong" wristbands.... A security guard at a 1996 Guns N' Roses concert is finally getting around to suing Axl Rose for allegedly kicking him in the head during a performance.... Andy Garcia is being sued by a woman who claims his film, The Lost City, is based on her husband's life, TMZ says. Since her spouse is a sax player who was exiled from Cuba after Castro took over and Garcia plays a nightclub owner who flees of his own accord, I have a hunch this isn't going to go well for her.
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