Word: bumming
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...wasn't bad enough losing to a guy who belongs in a Celebrex ad, American Idol's KATHARINE MCPHEE has fallen victim to the curse of the Idol runner-up--a bum foot. The show's 2004 No. 2 Diana DeGarmo slipped down a flight of stage stairs, tearing a ligament. Last year Bo Bice broke his foot during some rigorous onstage bouncing. And now McPhee has tripped backstage, fracturing her left foot. All of which makes us wonder what those singers need more: to prove Simon Cowell and America wrong or to wear slightly more sensible shoes...
Toole never saw Hilary Swank get that second Oscar. He died in 2002 of what he would have called a bum ticker, leaving behind the manuscript of a novel called Pound for Pound (Ecco; 366 pages). Under the circumstances, it's a pleasure to say that Pound for Pound is not a rough, unfinished, posthumous collection of jottings, nor was Rope Burns a fluke. Pound for Pound is that most rare and absorbing of pleasures, a great boxing novel...
...beloved athletes might not have achieved immortality on talent alone? Hell, no. Last week came word that Floyd Landis--the fun-loving Mennonite from Pennsylvania, the guy whose Alpine comeback in the Tour de France was dubbed, properly, "The Ride of the Century" (and he did it with a bum hip to boot)--that guy might have cheated...
They're called Pantaloonies. The idea is, I give you a questionnaire: What's your favorite song? Your nickname? Whatever. You give us your jeans. And then I make personal patches for the bottom. It's like a scrapbook on your bum...
Just when Americans thought it was safe to ignore the Tour de France, another scrappy U.S. cyclist and medical marvel has ridden into the breach left by Lance Armstrong. Pedaling with a bum hip, FLOYD LANDIS, 30, a Mennonite raised in Pennsylvania, didn't seem like the guy to bet on, especially after he dealt with a devastating one-day drop from first place to 11th (because of a loss of energy, known as a "bonk") by having a beer. It must have been a stout, because Landis, who suffers from a degenerative hip condition, returned the next...