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Many New York baseball fans are unhappy with Omar Minaya, but Fred Wilpon is not one of them. The Mets owner told reporters at a Manhattan event Monday that the GM treated ousted manager Willie Randolph 'respectfully,' and that Minaya's job is secure.

RUSSIA coach Guus Hiddink said the success of his side at Euro 2008 had surprised him, and he has told his players only to enjoy themselves in their semi-final against Spain.

Recently retired defensive end Michael Strahan will join the FOX network's NFL pregame show, a source tells the AP.

Don Imus has once again injected race into his radio show. During an on-air conversation Monday about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam 'Pacman' Jones, Imus asked, 'What color is he?' Told by sports announcer Warner Wolf that Jones is 'African-American,' Imus responded: 'There you go.

New Orleans Hornets guard Rasual Butler has been charged with flashing a loaded gun near a South Florida nightclub. A witness told investigators that Butler pulled out a gun near a South Beach club early Monday, according to a Miami Beach police report. Butler was sitting in an SUV when officers arrived and found a loaded gun in the vehicle.

After the tears of joy dried, Todd Therrien advised Xavier Ramos to take care of some serious business. Therrien, the coach at St. Bonaventure (Ventura, Calif.), told Ramos, a rising senior linebacker, to do the classy thing. He told Ramos, who had just happily accepted a written scholarship offer from Oregon, to call his other suitors -- Arizona, Army, Wyoming and others -- to tell them that he was off the market.

President Bush congratulated the Phoenix Mercury on Monday for winning the WNBA title in 2007. Bush told a gathering at the White House's east garden that the Mercury brought 'new glory' to women's athletics. Mercury stars Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter presented Bush with a team jersey and a replica of the its championship banner.

A defense attorney for a British man accused of killing his wife and 9-month-old daughter told a jury Monday that his wife shot the baby and committed suicide, and that he covered up her actions to 'protect her honor.'

HOWEVER credible Collingwood's premiership prospects were, they diminished markedly yesterday when key forward Anthony Rocca was told he requires ankle surgery that may sideline him for the remainder of the season.

The British government is telling press that there is a growing trend in online organized crime rings hiring college students to do their dirty work and solve difficult technical problems - often under pretense that the work is legal security consulting. Here at RWW we're seeing, even participating in, a related trend of hiring college students for online work blogging. Hiring college students to work online is desirable for a number of reasons. Below we discuss some of those reasons and offer a short list of alternatives to working on the dark side online.In case you missed this weekend's announcement, we've got two new bloggers here at RWW. Our newest, Frederic Lardinois, is a graduate student (and a great guy) and the fabulous Corvida is an undergrad. Both have built established independent blogs, are blazing fast, wildly creative and have the people skills to make really great news bloggers. While everything they'll be doing here is completely legal, we hope, there are so