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A good week for ...
A good week for fans of rugby: England are eighth in the IRB's rankings. Their lowest position ever.
There's classy and then there's Rio Ferdinand. The Manchester United centreback has arranged for an owl to swoop down and deliver the rings on his wedding day.
If only an owl had delivered his wristwatch the day he forgot to attend a drug test, that pesky eight-month ban never would have happened.
Serve-and-volley ginge Boris Becker told a live television audience that he will marry his Dutch girlfriend, Sharlely Kerssenberg, 30. Which is all well and good, but spare a thought for Alessandra Meyer-Woelden, 25, the daughter of his late former manager, who he told the world he was going to marry last year.
Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill is paying a heavy price for fielding a weakened team against CSKA Moscow: he's having to host 295 Brummies for dinner. The 295 angry Villa fans who went all the way to Russia to see a bunch of reserve players get thumped have been invited to an all-expenses-paid night at Villa Park.
Anyone who has ever shaken their head at Graham Henry's lolly scramble selections for All Black games could float the idea with the NZRU.
Here at SuperSport we don't know much about art but we know what we like. And we like mini golf. Three events at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles have caught our eye.
1.) For the exhibition "Emptiness Is Form (Golf and Donuts)" a minigolf course has been set up inside the building. You can play for free and it's even got a 19th - there's a cash bar.
2.) Another exhibition, "Trying the Hand of God", explores the, er, "nature of the media-perpetuated chance moment" with a continuous re-enactment of Maradona's Hand of God goal. Sadly, there's no cash bar.
3.) For the MOCA Grand Prix, visitors race remote controlled cars through the galleries. Yes, there's a cash bar.
A bad week for ...
Was the Martin Johnson who punched the air in rage after seeing his halfback Danny Care receive a yellow card for an unprovoked smash into the back of an opposition player the same Martin Johnson who smashed Justin Marshall in the back, unprovoked, in 1997? Thought so.
Will the ticketholder for the seat in front of Martin Johnson at future England games get a discount? A helmet?
The midweek announcement that cricket was invented not by the English but by Flemish basket weavers hurt England's pride. But imagine the warm pints being coughed into at news of the nationalities of the two researchers: An Aussie and a German. Says Dr Heiner Gillmeister, of the University of Bonn: "Of course there is something quite ironic about a German and an Australian making discoveries about what is considered to be such an English game, and in reality that game being a foreign import."
Next they'll tell us a Frenchman invented slow postal systems and losing in penalty shootouts.
The origin of the word "cricket"? A Flemish phrase: "met de krik ketsen", or "to chase with a curved stick".
Sweary chef Gordon Ramsay's claims to once have played for Rangers have been revealed as load of - excuse us - porkies. The News of the World has busted Ramsay, who never signed for Rangers or played first team games for them - despite his claims in his autobiography. The paper reports that his "Rangers career was [again, excuse us] boloney".
Aucklanders can blame whoever wrote the Auckland Cup Week Media Guide for the torrential downpour that ruined last weekend. As biblical storms caused the postponement of all Saturday's races, we scanned the Media Guide, where the first line promised "Racing every day - rain or shine".