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First there was the Mitchell Report and now there’s the unquestionably sleazy accusation that he had an affair with country singer Mindy McCready that begain when McCready was 15. FIFTEEN! I don’t have a high opinion of Clemens as a person or a great belief in his intellect, but this surprises me.

Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News.

Sources: Roger Clemens had 10-year fling with country star Mindy McCready

I spent some time yesterday catching up on this story. This is a little easier to link to than the forum posts I had to read yesterday to get the scoop on this fascinating story.

(link via Schneier on Security)

A few weeks back I blogged about allegations of cheating at an online poker site called Absolute Poker. While things looked awfully suspicious, there wasn’t quite a smoking gun, and it was unclear exactly how the cheater might have cheated.

A combination of some incredible detective work by some poker players and an accidental (?) data leak by Absolute Poker have blown the scandal wide open.

You can read the first-hand account in the following thread at 2 2 Poker Forum, but here’s the short version:

The Absolute Poker Cheating Scandal Blown Wide Open

Remember me mentioning Hattogate?, The New Yorker has an excellent article on the subject:

Letter from England: Fantasia for Piano: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

I only got about halfway through, but I’ll return to it later tonight to finish it off. Good stuff.

And are curious just how bad they might be, here they are….

They’re without question NSFW.

The Photos that stripped Miss Nevada of her title!

I caught it on the technorati popular list, which always kills about fifteen minutes of my time every morning as I scramble to catch up with anything I don’t quite get.

You could EASILY make a RICO case here. I know. I watch Law and Order! No criminal charges for top officials in Boston church scandal, attorney general says

Martha Stewart indicted

I don’t know why she creeps me out so much. She just does. I watch her and I get this surreal, uncomfortable vibe from her. Maybe it’s the dead look in her beady little eyes, her noncommittal white bread manner of speech or that terrible hair cut or some combination of three. It might be something else entirely. I don’t know what it is, I just feel the need to shower after seeing her.

This convergence, of course, begs the age-old question of “who is crazier?” Based on today’s reporting at least, Tyson has the upper hand. Jackson’s finances center stage in LA court fight

This is awesome in a William Gibson sort of way- the perverse convergence of a very delicate sport and insanely sleazy activity. The story: Sources say Russian and French judges made deal