Smells Like Team Spirit

Canoodling Canucks

Calgary-born actress Elisha Cuthbert and Calgary Flames hockey star Dion Phaneuf were recently caught frolicking and canoodling on the beach in Hawaii, making a unisexual eyeful of a couple. (Calgary Herald; photo: Bauer-Griffin via Socialite's Life)

Base Hit

Met, Dodger, and Yankee vet Darryl Strawberry, who struggled with cocaine addiction through most of his career, is writing his memoir, to be published next year. He's calling it Straw. Seriously? (AP)

Uppity French

Alain Robert, 45, called the French Spider-Man, climbed to the top of a 46-story Hong Kong hotel today, then was "detained" when he reached the roof. He did it to publicize his memoir, With Bare Hands, about his 12-year career climbing things. Seems the world can't make up its collective mind about him, though. He was deported from China last year for scaling its tallest building, then got invited back to climb a mountain as a tourist attraction. (Breitbart; top photo: AFP)

That Touch of Mantle

In his upcoming tell-all Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door, David Kaufman reveals that Day was not quite the breathy, huffy virgin she portrayed in too many movies. Seems that when the New York Yankee horndog Mickey Mantle made a cameo in her 1962 movie, That Touch of Mink, the two did the deed after a day of shooting. (She'd might have done and tired of costar Cary Grant already.) "Mantle boasted to friends that not only had he slept with Day at his regular suite in New York's St Moritz Hotel," writes Kaufman, "but that she was 'one of the best fucks of his life.' " A spokeswoman for Day as good as confirms the story by saying the actress, now 84, has no comment. (Page Six)

Auto Erotic

It's come to light that Formula One boss Max Mosley, 67, has been engaged in Nazi-flavored, German-language orgies involving five prostitutes and reenactments of WWII concentration camp activities. Mosley, the son of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, has been asked to resign as president of FiA, Formula One's governing body.

The allegations are based on a five-hour video obtained by the [News of the World], which shows a man identified as Max Mosley acting out various sadomasochistic role-plays in a London apartment. One prostitute inspects the man's genitals and searches his hair for lice in an obscene parody of the treatment of concentration camp inmates during the Third Reich. The man is whipped by one dominatrix before himself whipping two prostitutes wearing concentration camp-style striped uniforms.

Mosley finishes off the session with a cup of tea. Not surprisingly, Jewish leaders have condemned the goings-on. "This is sick and depraved," said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust. “I am absolutely appalled.” (Spiegel; Jalopnik; t/y Phil)

Reality Show

Ever wondered what sort of people we are here at World of Wonder, other than being unconscionably attractive and unrealistically sexy? We're the sort of people who forward this sort of video around the office.

A Four-Dimensional Continuum

At least that's how we view this amazing South Korean synchonized halftime dance. Puts those Pinoy prisoners to shame – and us, who can't even figure out where our seats are at the game. (t/y Brent)

Reality vs Reality

At left, reality star Lauren Conrad is figuratively "stabbed in the back" on The Hills; at right, former tennis star Monica Seles, now competing in Dancing with the Stars, was literally stabbed in the back on the tennis court in Hamburg in 1993.

Gay Blade

Queer Weir? “There are some things I keep sacred,” top US figure skater Johnny Weir told the NY Times. “My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.” (via dlisted; t/y Lindsey)

And Finally...

David Beckham and a Galaxy teammate clutch their pearls during a midgame free kick last night. Too presh. (dlisted via Towleroad; photo: Splash)

Skate the Vote

We at World of Wonder are big fans of these eight-year-old skateboarding twins Tristan and Nic – and now we learn they've been nominated for YouTube's Best Sports Video of 2007. You can help the kids win by clicking here to vote for them. Once there, select the Sports category and vote for Puehse Twins Skateboarding. Promise?

He Shot a Birdie

Pro golfer Tripp Isenhour has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird. In December, while Isenhour was shooting a video called Shoot Like a Pro at the Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando, Florida, he kept having to do reshoots because of squawks coming from a frisky red-shouldered hawk. After several attempts to drive golfballs at the bird, Isenhour finally struck it on the head, pro that he is. The dead bird fell to the ground, bleeding from its nostrils.

"He just kept saying how he didn't think he could have hit it, which I think is a stupid thing for a PGA Tour golfer to say," said Jethro Senger, a sound engineer at the shoot. "He can put a ball in a hole from hundreds of yards away, and here he is hitting line drives at something that's, I don't know, a couple hundred feet away?"

If convicted, Isenhour could spend 14 months in a human cage and pay $1,500 in fines. (Source; AP photo)

Becks on Tap

While in Shanghai, China, with the LA Galaxy for a game against Shanghai-Hong Kong United, soccer star David Beckham stopped by the Xinhua hospital today to visit with the tiny leukemia patients. Becks is also the hands-on goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund. He's handsome inside and out. We're thinking he'd make the best Miss America. (PageSix.com; photo: Getty Images)

Wheels on Fire

Tom Wolf took these hot shots of the wheelchair competitors getting a head start before those on foot at the Los Angeles Marathon today. The photos are so close-up you might think Wolf was in an adjacent wheelchair. But he draws the physical-exercise line at jumping jacks.

Star Spangled Embarrassment

Ground, open, up and swallow me are the only words that come to mind to describe the mortification that this poor girl must have felt at forgetting the national anthem lyrics and getting booed off an ice rink. I am posting it in some convoluted attempt at belated Presidents Day patriotism, but really it's just funny as shit to laugh at her. Keep watching to the end.

– Steven Corfe

Snap! Cap

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Her Broadway Run

Apparently, Tom Brady's girlfriend Gisele Bundchen is responsible for his cocksure team losing the Super Bowl. The Giants were super (model) motivated to win. After the Patriots won 21-12 over the Chargers, the smug Bundchen said she'd run naked down Broadway if the Patriots lost to the Giants on Sunday. Unfortunately, before the Super Bowl happened, she recanted – but not out of modesty:

"It was a mistake and I'm sorry I said it. I don't know what I could have been thinking – Midtown Manhattan is a parking lot any time of day or night. It'd take 30 minutes just to make it from the Theater District to 34th Street. And what if I ran into the Naked Cowboy and had to pose for pictures with every out-of-town Tom, Dick and Harry? Tack on another 30 minutes, easily. How 'bout I simply flashed my breasts from a billboard in Times Square and call it a day ... will that work?"

Said a Giants fan: "I haven't been to a Broadway show in over 20 years. But Gisele Bundchen naked, with Tom Brady watching helplessly on the sidelines, now that's one show I'd pay Broadway prices to see." (Sportsline)

Ed note: We're not sure how much – if any – of this story is true.

The St James Version

I cannot BELIEVE I am about to say this, but: OMG,I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT SUNDAY'S BIG SUPERBOWL GAME! I am absolutely SPINNING ON MY TITS! Well, you can't imagine my bliss: I mean: we all get to spend hour after glorious hour of looking at Tom Brady's dimpled little ass! It just doesn't get any better than that, does it? And I'm not the only one who thinks that. Every faggot IN THE WORLD is with me on this one, right? And it's not just faggots. Every straight guy I know admits to a mancrush on him. Just watch this video. I was going to ooze on and on about him for another three or four paragraphs, but I think that song pretty much says it all. Oh, my dad will be so proud of me. We'll actually have something to talk about this week! TOM BRADY'S ASS! SQUEEEEEEAL!

(And just for a tiny bit of overkill, to really drive home how hot he is, here is another tribute video. This one features a calvalcade of "Gisom": Giselle + Tom – or "proof that God exists.")

– James St James

Bigfoot

Carbon Trust, a British environmental group, claims that footballer posterboy David Beckham is responsible for 163 tons of carbon dioxide daily, compared to the average Brit's 9.4 tons. In fact, Beckham – who owns 15 cars, including a Porsch, a Hummer, and a Lincoln Navigator – may have left the largest carbon footprint in human history. So far. And that's not taking into consideration the massive number of toxins his strap-on wife spews into the air everyday making her stick figure presentable enough to leave the house. (Fox Sports)

The former England captain logged over 250,000 miles last year as he flew back and forth between the U.S. and Europe for England's European Championship qualifiers, while also participating in a Galaxy tour of Oceania in the latter part of the year. Beckham and his wife Victoria also collected over 50,000 frequent flyer miles for advertising obligations around the globe. Collectively, Beckham flew farther in 2007 than a trip from the earth to the moon.

What Are the Odds

WOW staffer Ross Greenberg alerts the WOW Report to this exchange from the 1988 movie Coming to America regarding last night's Giants victory:

Prince Akeem: Sir, I was wondering, did you happen to catch the professional football contest on television last night?

Cleo McDowell: No, I didn't.

Prince Akeem: Oh, it was most exhilarating; the Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. And in the end, the Giants triumphed by kicking an oblong ball made of pigskin through a big "H." It was a most ripping victory.

Cleo McDowell: Son, I'm just gonna tell you this one time...

Prince Akeem: Yes?

Cleo McDowell: If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.

High and Outside

Former Yankees catcher Jim Leyritz, whose heroics led the team to win the 1996 World Series, was arrested yesterday and charged with DUI manslaughter and DUI property damage after he crashed his 2006 Ford Expedition into a 2000 Mitsubishi Montero at a Fort Lauderdale intersection, killing the driver who was thrown from the vehicle. Witnesses said Leyritz ran a red light. Broward County officers reported that the ballplayer had watery eyes, a flushed face, smelled of liquor, failed a roadside sobriety test, was generally uncooperative, and refused to take either a Breathalyzer or blood test. Leyritz, who's admitted to using amphetamines and steroids in the past, was released from Broward County Jail after posting $11,000 bond. (New York Times)

Feral Ferrell

Here's the Red Band, age-restricted trailer for the Will Ferrell movie Semi-Pro so, sorry, kids, you'll have to watch it with your parents. The language is a bit salty for young ears. You know, "cocksucker" and the like.

Desperate Slut

According to the snappers at X17online, this 26-year-old French woman, Alexandra Paressant, alleged to be a supermodel and actress, had an affair for two months with San Antonio Spur Tony Parker after meeting him at his wedding to Eva Longoria in July. In fact, she's quoted as saying, "I slept with Tony Parker."

According to Alex, she and Tony were introduced by superstar French soccer player Thierry Henry at the huge July 7 nuptials last summer. They exchanged phone calls for a couple months and then saw each other in Paris at the end of September (while Tony was in town to receive the Legion of Honor) and in San Antonio in October. Alex has given X17online samples of what she says are text messages with Tony exchanged at the end of September, just after the two slept together, Alex claims, at the Park Hyatt (where Eva and Tony and their wedding party stayed!). Stay tuned because we'll bring you those text messages and many, many more details ...

We're staying tuned for the lawsuits.

Snoop Dogg's Puppies Learn to Dribble

Soccer fan Snoop Dogg engaged the services of his friend, hip-hop fan David Beckham to teach his boys Cordé, 13, and Cordell, 10, some moves of the game. The kids had called their father on his constant boasting that he knew celebrities and said they wouldn't practice football unless he got Becks to come to the house and coach them. Afterward, Dogg took Beckham to his favourite LA restaurant, Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n' Waffles. (Daily Mail)

Gyllenhaal of Famer

Jake Gyllenhaal has signed on to play '60s-'70s Hall-of-Famer Joe Namath in a currently untitled biopic of the legendary New York Jets quarterback who rose from poor kid in the steel town of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, to flamboyant fur coat-wearing crazy-famous media superstar known as Broadway Joe – the first in what would become a long tradition of flamboyant crazy-famous media superstar athletes. If the movie's done right, it'll get Gyllenhaal in pantyhose (see clip). Gyllenhaal still has two movies to finish and the writers strike has to end before production starts. (EW)

Daffy Ducks and Soccer Balls

Perhaps in an effort to undo the bad PR drugs received when it was discovered those bead toys from China had been sprayed with GHB and little children all over the world suddenly became comatose, a young man in Atlanta put 100% organic psilocybin mushrooms inside chocolate ducks and sold them out of his truck. He was arrested by the Rockdale County police after they searched the truck and found sheets of LSD and 74 chocolate-and-mushroom ducks and bunnies in a cooler bag, and $1,200 in cash in his pants. (Source)

And speaking of pants, not to be outdone by Tom Brady and his Calvins campaign, the US branch of the Emporio Armani underwear collection will be using the musky nether regions of soccer star David Beckham as its spokesarea, beginning in January. Armani has been fostering a relationship between fashion and sports for years; he and Beckham designed the uniforms for the English soccer team back in 2002. (Celebitchy)

Making a Racket

After testing positive for cocaine this year, Swiss tennis star and former Wimbledon champ Martina Hingis has decided to retire from the sport. She says she's never done drugs and finds the results of the test and the accusations "horrendous and monstrous." "I have tested positive," she announced recently, "but I have never taken drugs and I feel 100% innocent. The reason I have come out with this is because I do not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities." Oddly, though, neither WTA Tour chief executive Larry Scott nor the Swiss tennis association have any knowledge of her drug test. "We have not received any official information regarding the positive doping test result referred to by Martina Hingis," said Scott, "and as a result we are not in a position to comment on the matter." (BBC; photo: Hingis is happier times – for us)

Larry King Alive!

A hair-raising shot of the CNN interviewer from NBC's Football Night in America. (via Deadspin; t/y Alan)

Hangover Harry

Completely wasted Prince Harry drank straight from the bottle at a hardcore party Sunday night at a nightclub in Paris after England was defeated for the World Cup. A bartender said the crowd, which included Prince William and members of the England team and their wives and girlfriends, went through four large kegs and 240 bottles of beer before extra supplies were ordered after hours. Some of them are just getting home now. Harry has a 5:30 charity event to attend in London. (Daily Mail; photo: Matrix)

Hooray Harry

The England rugby team has adopted Prince Harry as its lucky mascot. The little prince even missed his girlfriend Chelsy Davy's 22nd birthday to watch Saturday's match. But it looks like all that hooraying is taking its toll. (Photos: WENN)

Punk Floyd

Undefeated boxers Floyd Mayweather and Ricky Hatton square off at the press conference for their fight, which takes place December 8 in Vegas. Mayweather (who refers to himself in the third person) also appears tonight in the season premiere of Dancing With the Stars. Imagine the taunts and insults he'll sling at Jennie Garth.

– Ross Greenberg

Saved by the Bell?

Vegas impressario Jeff Beacher wants Kid Rock and Tommy Lee, who already have suitable names, to put on the gloves and settle their differences in the ring, and he's putting up a $1-million purse. (Does it seem gay to you that the winner in boxing gets a belt and a purse?) (Page Six)

The Yankee Prankee

Yankee Stadium, $500, the Jumbotron, and a guy named Streeter and his girlfriend. The prank is explained but the pranker has a lot of 'splaining to do afterward. (College Humor via BWE)

Boys Who Play With Balls

Labor Day was my birthday and, much to my delight, I got a great gift: super fantastic seats to the US Open! Court-side seats! I was so close I could literally see them sweat, a fact made even more enjoyable because Andy Roddick was playing! Near disaster came after the first set, when Andy's opponent, Tomas Berdych, defaulted the match due to stomach illness. But what looked like a quick end to my time with the sexiest man in tennis, turned into a gift horse when Andy announced that, since the match had ended so early, he would go down to one of the practice courts and hit balls. I (and most of the girls in the stadium) followed him – and I was so glad I did! Andy gave everyone a show by taking off his shirt and hitting balls with his coach and tennis legend Jimmy Connors! Fantastic! Afterwards, I spied the sexy rising new Serbian star, Novak Djokovic, warming up on the opposite practice courts, and caught the match between James Blake and Tommy Haas, who are both downright HOT in their own right! It was a birthday filled with sexy boys who play with balls! And I couldn't have asked for more! (More photos after the jump)

– Text and photos by AguyNamedWayne

Stick to the Subject, White

The NAACP's R L White defends Falcons QB Michael Vick against dog lovers at a press conference in Atlanta. Listen closely when he says that there are "many people who just love Mike Vick." (Opie and Anthony; t/y Ed)

TV OD

Here is the actress Bea Arthur, who was the centerpiece Saturday at our "Golden Gals Go Wild" art show, on a gameshow with TV legend Merv Griffin, who died Sunday, and a snippet of dialogue from a Golden Girls episode (below) in which Yankees great Phil Rizzuto, who died today, is the punchline. The mind hemorrhages. (t/y Billy)

DOROTHY: I just keep thinking about Ma and whose mother she might really be.
ROSE: Are you afraid she might be Gina's?
DOROTHY: No, I'm afraid she might be Phil Rizzuto's!

Recently Dead

Hall-of-Fame Yankees shortstop and, later, Yankees radio broadcaster, Phil Rizzuto – nicknamed The Scooter and known for his cry of "Holy cow! – died today at 89. On the diamond, he was all that and a bag of peanuts, but he will be remembered fondly by non sports fans for his game-calling cameo on Meat Loaf's raunchy 1977 hit "Paradise by the Dashboard Light." (Read this)

Phil Rizzuto and Yogi Berra, c. 1950

He Sure Can Beckham

It's said that the real reason Posh didn't want to become friends with Paris isn't because Paris doesn't wear knickers but because she was afraid the heiress would come sniffing around Becks and try to take him from her. Paris has even been rumored to have said as much. But we're thinking Posh might want to start looking in the other direction as well. Her husband's buddy-buddy business and girlish posturing puts Amercan footballers' butt-patting to shame. We're just saying.

Recently Dead Update

ESPN reports that investigators have discovered that Canadian pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his seven-year-old son, and hanged himself with the pulley of a weight machine. That information was released today after the announcement late yesterday that the three were found dead and last night's now-somewhat-premature tribute to Benoit on USA Network's Raw. No suicide note was found, but steroids may be a determining factor in the killings.

Benoit's wife, 43, was killed Friday in an upstairs family room, her feet and wrists were bound and there was blood under her head, indicating a possible struggle, [DA Scott] Ballard said. The son, Daniel, was probably killed late Saturday or early Sunday, the body found in his bed, Ballard said. Benoit, 40, apparently killed himself several hours and as long as a day later, Ballard said. His body was found in a downstairs weight room, his body found hanging from the pulley of a piece of exercise equipment. The prosecutor said he found it "bizarre" that the WWE wrestling star spread out the killings over a weekend and appeared to remain in the house for up to a day with the bodies.

Recently Dead

Canadian pro wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy Benoit aka Woman, and their seven-year-old son Daniel were discovered dead this afternoon in their suburban Atlanta home. Two other Benoit children live in Canada. "There are no further details at this time," says the WWE in a statement on its website, "other than the Benoit family residence is currently being investigated by local authorities.” Other reports say that no cause of death has been given for any of the Benoits, "but law enforcement said they did not die of gunshot wounds." Tonight's Raw on the USA Network will be a tribute to the Benoit family.(Source)

And Baby Makes Five

Tiger Woods with wife Elin, border collie Taz, labradoodle Yogi, and week-old daughter Sam Alexis, who was born less than 24 hours after daddy placed second at the US Open. (Celeb Dog Watcher)

Time Out

See more at ian.

In this clip from Ian, Talk2 host Jim Rome insults then New Orleans Saints Quarterback Jim Everett by calling him Chris Everett. Rome won't let up so Everett gets up.... (t/y Ross)

An Unlikely Match

Oddfellows sports and fashion have come together in and on the windows of the Polo Ralph Lauren flagship store in London, and the term "window shopping" is now literal. Boris Becker (above), the Wimbledon tennis champ and inexplicably Lauren's brand ambassador, demonstrated the new 24-hour, 78-inch touch foil screen that is applied directly to the glass and allows passersby, whose eyes have been caught, to order a fetching item by touching its image on the screen.

By touching the model wearing a shawl cardigan over her dress, for example, shoppers will be guided using electronic touch sensory technology to a page adding the cardigan to their digital shopping cart. To get the dress itself, press the arrow and three new images appear, including one highlighting the dress. Shoppers are contacted by e-mail or phone the next day to securely enter their payment information and arrange for shipping. "I'd never seen anything like that," Becker said.

Last year, Lauren launched a similar window in Manhattan during the US Open, but the larger window in London will focus on Wimbledon and be taken down when the tournament ends. (USA Today via AgendaInc)

Recently Dead

Sherri Martel aka Sensational Sherri aka Scary Sherri aka Sensational Queen Sherri aka Sensuous Sherri aka Sister Sherri aka Peggy Sue, arguably the most famous female wrestler ever (although, sadly, this is the first we've heard of her), was found dead by her husband at her mother's house in McCalla, Alabama, on Friday. She was 49. Captain Loyd Baker of the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit said foul play isn't suspected, but that Martel didn't die of natural causes. "The cause of death is pending her autopsy and toxicology report," he said yesterday. Martel, an American Wrestling Association and World Wrestling Entertainment championship titleholder, was inducted last year into the WWE Hall Of Fame by Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase. The WWE said she was "skilled and accomplished inside the ring and a force when managing from outside of it." Her husband Robert Schrull called her death "a great loss to the wrestling world." (Source)

Seeing Quadruple

The Spice Boys. After winning his final game with Real Madrid on Sunday, David Beckham poses with his three sons, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. (Reuters photo via People)

Sports Brouhaha

Within hours after the logo for London's 2012 Olympics was unveiled yesterday, an online petition was started asking for a new design. The logo with jagged shapes forming the number 2012 cost $796 to create and was targeted at young people. But a British health charity with the ironic name of Epilepsy Action, said 10 people had complained about the logo's animation and some had suffered seizures from watching images depicting a diver plunging into a pool. It would serve complainers right if the new design was changed to include a not-so-subtle goatse design, as shown straight-faced in the clip above. (Source; t/y Todd)

Becks Draft Still Strong

David Beckham created a spectacular goal setup last night with one of his trademark free kicks that helped England tie 1-1 with Brazil in an international exhibition at Wembley Stadium. Becks' impressive return to the UK's national team sparked rumors (or rumours) that he might change his mind about joining LA Galaxy, the soccer team no one knew Los Angeles had until Becks signed on for $250 million. But Alexi Lalas, Galaxy's president and general manager, says Beckham's not leaving. "It's never been brought up on either side," he said. "It's never been an option." So Posh can finish planting that vegetable garden in the back yard of the Beckhams' new house here – they're staying. (LA Times)

Third Base Indeed

Rumors that the New York Yankees third-baseman Alex Rodrigues has a preference for females verging on shemales have been as good as confirmed by these mannish nude photos of Joslyn Noel Morse, the 30-year-old stripper A-Rod first met at Scores in Las Vegas and has been seen with numerous times since. Don't let her man's middle name fool you, though, she's a real woman. (via