Johnny Damon’s double-steal in Game 4 helped catalyze a big four-run ninth inning for the Yankees–and a 3-1 World Series lead against the Phillies. But all I can think about is A-Rod’s image of a centaur that supposedly hangs over his bed. It’s just…bizarre. If dude has that in his bedroom and looks at that every day, there really isn’t much that the New York media can do to him…except follow him around while he tries to copulate.

The Yankees slugger is reportedly such an egomaniac that he placed paintings of himself depicted as a centaur — a mythical creature who is half-man, half-horse — over his bed, an ex-girlfriend said.
“He was so vain,” the unidentified A-Rod lover told Us Weekly. “He had not one but two painted portraits of himself as a centaur.”–NY Post.

There are great depictions of the alleged portrait here, here and here, and you should be able to figure out what a centaur is from that. Although if Kate Hudson gets down with that sort of thing, it must work for something…

You may remember the Chief referred to Tony Parker's new bride as a "Chupacabra", a mythical blood-sucking beast.  Well, one has been captured near San Antonio:

Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra. "It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin. Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio . . . "I've seen a lot of nasty stuff. I've never seen anything like this," she said.

I think we can safely assume one of those 40-pound bodies was the drained corpse of Tony Parker.  Well, at least I hope that's the case.  I would also advise Ms. Canion not to be fooled by the wily chupacabra because it's just playing possum.  These blood-letters often employ this tactic to lull their prey into a fall sense of security.  You'll assume they're dead especially after appearing in a soft-core skin flick, but then they diabolically return to life on network TV. -KD