"Mom of the Games"? C'mon...
Talk about riding the coat-tails of her son...

Michael Phelps Book “Built To Succeed” December 2008
Eight-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps has inked a deal with publisher Simon & Schuester that will see the 23-year-old releasing his autobiography. The World’s “Most Decorated Olympian” will get personal, chronicling his record-breaking eight gold medal wins as well as what it was like to be raised by a single mother while coping with an attention-deficit disorder, in a new book that on booksellers’ shelves this holiday season. The star swimmer’s memoir, titled

Oh, hell []
Now I just got Rickrolled. The (obviously fake) headline? "Michael Phelps fails drug test: Fox news reports."

TV Guide Sports Report - The Phelps Effect: NBC to Televise Swimming Championships
Newly minted eight-time Olympic gold-medalistMichael Phelps has said he wants to raise the profile ...

New York Mag Yells At Freeloading Freelancers [Magazines]
From a tipster: "Jada Yuan sent out a really angry email to New York magazine freelancers yesterday saying from now on, she wouldn't be sending out party info over email because too many people on her list were crashing events and saying they were NY mag reporters when really they're just freelancers who want free(lance) drinks." Hey, does anybody have a copy of this e-mail? We'll keep you anonymous. Read More: 1

They Made the Best of a Vaguely Awkward Situation [Magazines]
Reading this very website led a fashionable young lady named Julia to enter the contest to with a date with redheaded, beleaguered Vanity Fair editorial assistant Bill Bradley--at the Waverly Inn! It ain't the first awkward date we've contributed to. [VF Online] Read More: 1 2 3 4 New York's E-Mail to Certain Staffers: Be

Michael Phelps: 'Greatest Olympian of All Time!'
Michael Phelps continued his gold rush Wednesday, winning two more gold medals and smashing two world records. The wins – his 10th and 11th career golds – make him with winningest Olympian in history. As the announcer at the National Aquatics Center declared, that makes him "arguably the greatest Olympian of all time." (The comment earned a smile from Phelps, who remained stoic for most of the day's competition.) The day began less than auspiciously, when Phelps's goggles filled up with water duri

Top 10: The Best in TV, the Web, Books and Beyond
George W. Bush will be there in the flesh, but most of us will be on the couch as the flame is lit in Beijing for China's first-ever Olympiad. A lot is on the line: national pride, years of training, millions of endorsement opportunities, Wheaties boxes. Plus your hard-earned moolah, if you don't mind a little under-the-table Olympic betting! We turned to our pal John Avello, sports-gaming expert at the Wynn in Las Vegas, and here's his advice: Bet big on U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps and Chinese badminton su

Breakfast of a champion? Frosted Flakes! Phelps signs with cereal
Olympic legend Michael Phelps will appear on boxes of the Kellogg's brand sugar cereal, drawing sharp criticism from health experts worried about the message he'll be sending to children across America. "I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian," said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center. "I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios."

BEST OF THE BWE: Michael Phelps Michael Phelps
Alex finally has the balls to ask the question: Is Michael Phelps a Douche? He also takes a look into a crystal ball-shaped swimming pool to predict Five Possible Futures For Michael Phelps. Surprisingly absent from the list? Old Douche. Still, Phelps isn’t even close to the douchiest athlete in the ‘08 Olympics. Unless he said something about “me rikey egg roll” off camera. Sara needs your help to pick an image for her custom-designed Keds. Looks like it’s down to Brad Pitt Co

Michael Phelps Is A Beast!
Michael Phelps has won his sixth Olympic Gold Medal during the 2008 summer games and he is still going for more. At the young age of 23 Michael already has 12 gold medals for his career total, he has earned 6 of those during this year's summer games. If he wins one more he will be given a $1million check from his sponsor. He is currently the most successful athlete in history with his 12 career gold medals, he is also breaking every world record every time he hits the water. By the by:Nastia Liukin (US) too

One to Watch in the Olympics: Michael Phelps
Sport: Swimming Why watch?: A breakout star in the '04 games, Phelps is going for eight golds in Bejiing. With his 6'7" wingspan, Phelps has the 10 fastest times ever in the 200m butterfly, one of his best events.

Is Michael Phelps A Douche?
Listen, I hate to be unpatriotic while the Most Deeply Important Cultural Event In History is currently going down over in Beijing, and I readily concede that Michael Phelps is probably the greatest Olympic athlete of all time, whose physical achievements aren’t even fathomable to an aging, out-of-shape blogger such as myself, but after carefully reviewing extensive photographic evidence of what he looks like when he’s wearing street clothes instead of Speedos, I have to at least ask the question: “Is

The Week That Killed Sex [Week In Review]
Mrs. Robert Zemeckis wrote a terrible book, with terrible sex. Michael Phelps had sex with everyone in China, which is terrible. Rielle Hunter has a terrible baby! John McCain was tortured by gay sadists! Oh, and ugh, someone is maybe a sadistic gay rapist. Don't break up with Andres Martinez! And then, finally, the Mrs. Jared Paul Stern sex tape. See? No more sex for anyone, ever. It's gross. Oh, other stuff happened too! An intern shit the bed, so to speak. Where "bed" means "work." But, you know, tip of

Win Nine Golds, Kid, and Then We’ll Talk
A mathematical survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. Asked if she's dating golden boy Michael Phelps, fellow U.S. swimmer (and onetime Playboy model) Amanda Beard harpoons the poor guy: "Come on, I have really good taste." Score: 13 Isn't it ironic that Rush Limbaugh called Barack Obama "the little black man-child"? You could describe Rush the same way, if you leave out the words "little," "black" and "man." Score: 42 It's impossible to know

Michael Phelps' girlfriend: Amanda Beard or Lily Donaldson?
She previously had to wrest her man from the pool, but now there is a magnitude of gold to wade through before she can get to her man. Two girls have recently been linked with Beijing's eight-time gold medalist: US swimmer Amanda Beard and British model Lily Donaldson. Beard held the Olympic record for women's 200 metres breaststroke after her win in Athens, but failed to reach the final in Beijing. She recently posed nude for an anti-fur ad campaign by using the Olympics for maximum exposure. L

CHELSEA HANDLER, WILL YOU MARRY ME?
So I’m having dinner with a friend tonight. He reads my blog and so knows about all my celebrity crushes. And he’s like, “Okay, let’s rank them. Who do we have? Michael Phelps, of course. And Patrick Stewart. And Adrian Grenier. Oh, and Adam Duritz. And who else is in your top five? Christian Bale? Rank them from one to five.” And so we go through the process, and Adam Duritz came out on top, and my friend’s like “Really? Even with the fat?” And I thought abou

AMANDA BEARD DATING MICHAEL PHELPS?
Johnjay and Rich asked her the question everyone was wondering...live from Beijing! Is Amanda Beard dating Michael Phelps?

Jennifer Lopez Poo Poos Michael Phelps Medals?
Man, some people look for the bad in everything. Now, you all saw the clip from Jennifer Lopez’s appearance on Good Morning America yesterday, right?

Candice Swanepoel Brings The Afternoon Links!
See the Foot Locker Ad? Click on it! - Lindsay Lohan See Through Pictures [HollywoodTuna] - Page 3’s Keeley Hazell Does Playboy! [CO-ED Magazine] - Resse Witherspoon is a Fat Jogger [Drunken Stepfather, NSFW] - Katherine Heigl Told To Pick Up Her Cigarette [I’m Not Obsessed] - 50-year-old Sharon Stone dating a 24-year-old [Celebslam] - Bapesta Summer Sandals [Daily Drop]- Celebrity Lingerie Lines We’d Like To Take Off [Complex] - "All My Sons" is already proving to be a big dud [Dlisted

The George W. Bush Olympics
These Olympics are fast becoming not the triumphant return of China to the world stage, but the comedic adventures of one George Walker Bush, man about town. Hot on the heels of his troop inspection at the Bush-gets-friendly-with-ladies--beach-volleyball-team">womens' beach volleyball, here is President George Bush, with First Lady Laura Bush, flashes Michael Phelps a hook em' horns sign as Phelps celebrates a world record and gold medal in the 2008 Olympic Games men's 400m individual medley final in Bei

What an Amazing Opening Ceremony!
Hey everyone!I wanted to write a quick note to see how everyone is doing. It's been a while since I checked in but know that I read your messages and really appreciate them...well most of them. Everyone in the family is doing great. I don't know about you all but Cash and I have been glued to the Olympics. How amazing was the opening ceremony?!? I still don't know how they coordinated 2008 people to move in perfect sync. The mens 400M relay was insane. We were down by almost a half body length go