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Fuzzy Zoeller Sues Over Libelous Wikipedia Page The golfer has filed suit against a Florida company whose IP address was used to add "false and defamatory" edits to his Wikipedia entry. For some reason, Zoeller objected to the claim that he was a Jack Daniels-swilling, Vicodin fiend who "viciously beat his wife Dianne and their four children."
posted by rcade at 12:58 PM on February 22
Buffalo Bills: Africa's Four-Time Super Bowl Champs Now that every sports champion dons special T-shirts and ballcaps after the game, ever wonder what happens to the swag produced for the losers? The NFL ships it to developing nations in Africa and elsewhere. (Note: One Super Bowl team is jinxed by the article's photo.)
posted by rcade at 04:38 PM on February 06
The author of the article didn't do as much research as he should have. He makes it sounds like the 288*2 shirts printed for the players/staff at the game are the only ones printed in advance, and only after the game is over do companies start printing championship paraphenalia to sell to the fans. Here in Indianapolis, Dick's Sporting Goods (along with some other stores) announced beforehand (at least Sunday morning, possibly earlier) that in case of a Colts victory they would open immediately after the game to sell championship t-shirts, hats, etc., so all of those must have been printed in advance. I got to a store about an hour after the end of the game, and it was a madhouse--took me another hour in line to get my t-shirts. So it's not 288 t-shirts and caps from the "wrong" team that get sent off to Africa; it's probably in the tens of thousands.
posted at 05:06 PM on February 06
I note that the lawsuit does not name the Wikimedia Foundation as a defendant, demonstrating a degree of cluefulness from Zoeller and/or his lawyers.