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1. OLN missed live coverage of Lance Armstrong crossing the finish line in Sunday's final Tour de France stage. OLN had to rely on the footage of the French production company that controlled the world feed, which focused on the mass sprint to the finish ahead of Armstrong. The French said its cameraman tried to swing back to catch the American champion, but the camera got caught on his yellow Livestrong bracelet.

2. A marketing executive with the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks is posing nude in the August issue of Playboy to help sell tickets. Heather La Bella originally contacted the magazine to see if the team could place an ad, which would have cost $25,000, and instead ended up wearing nothing but a WNBA-logoed ball. Never one to overlook a promotional opportunity, NBA commissioner David Stern will now be featured in some tasteful shots for Playgirl.

3. Did anybody catch Barry Bonds' "sprint" home last night? Bonds was on third, representing the tying run, in the eighth inning of Monday's game with the Padres. The batter hit a fairly slow roller to second baseman Mark Loretta, who still had plenty of time to nail a lumbering Bonds at the plate by several steps. Bonds was moving down the line like the first steps that Det. Andy Sipowicz took after prostate surgery. There can be no doubt that Bonds has become one of the most dominant and game-changing batters that baseball has ever seen, and perhaps the single most intimidating. But as Bonds has bulked up, every other part of his game has suffered. He is now a liability in the field and on the base paths, areas in which he used to be among the best in the game. It's ironic that as Bonds has become unquestionably the most feared hitter in baseball, he has also become a far worse all-around player.

4. University of Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer will not attend this week's SEC media days in Birmingham after learning that Alabama-based attorneys suing the NCAA plan to serve him with a subpoena. The coach is accused by a former Crimson Tide assistant coach of conspiring with the NCAA to bring down the Alabama football program. Fulmer is convinced that the lawyers will never be able to track him down in Knoxville, where he leads a private and anonymous life.

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5. New York City's billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg urged New Yorkers on Monday to travel to Athens for the Olympics. Bloomberg argued that a trip to Athens would help show that Americans are not going to let terrorists rule their lives. In a follow-up Daily News poll, only 17 percent of New Yorkers said they would consider following the mayor's advice and go to Athens; the figure shoots to 92 percent if the mayor is buying.

6. Nike and Philips have developed an MP3 player for runners that also tracks distance and pace. The $300 device, called MP3RUN, uses a thumb-sized sensor that attaches to a runner's shoe to store data of up to 200 runs that can be loaded onto a Nike-operated Web site to track progress. For $600, the device will even do the actual running.

7. You have to love those wacky NASCAR guys and their fierce allegiance to sponsors. Consider this Victory Lane pronouncement from Kurt Busch on Sunday: "This is an awesome win for Coca-Cola, Gatorade -- well, not Gatorade." Busch, you see, is sponsored by Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola makes Powerade. Gatorade, however, is owned by Pepsi. Understandably, it can be tough to keep all that straight just after driving 300 laps in a sweatbox of a car.

8. Save your pennies, fans of '80s TV. KITT is up for auction. The Night Rider star, whose full name was Knight Industry Two Thousand, will be up for bid on eBay. The souped-up, black '83 Pontiac Trans Am is expected to fetch somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000. No word if that annoying doctor from St. Elsewhere who supplied KITT's voice comes in the deal.

9. Kristine Rosendahl, a Florida-based attorney, is breaking into the male-dominated field of NFL agents. Says Rosendahl, "There is nobody like me in the NFL. I am the petite, Louis-Vuitton-wearing, Jaguar-driving blonde who keeps herself in shape and is not bad to look at." Rosendahl has reportedly landed 11 clients so far. Said one: "She had me at hello."

10. The guarantee by Carmelo Anthony that the U.S. basketball squad will win Olympic gold is among the odder in sports guarantee history. Is a player on a team that is favored to win allowed to issue a guarantee, or if he does is it really newsworthy? Isn't this like Derek Jeter guaranteeing in spring training that the Yankees will make the postseason? Anthony certainly won't get much bang for his guarantee buck. If the Dream Team wins, that's still pretty much expected, so 'Melo won't exactly be the new Joe Willie Namath. Yet if the Americans are upset in Athens, won't 'Melo take heat for appearing to represent the cocky these-fuzzy-foreigners-can't-beat-us attitude that might end up doing us in? I generally like 'Melo, so I hope he doesn't become the poster boy for the decline of American basketball.