By Matthew Waxman

HOT: Wal-Mart

Before a practice at Oklahoma's Lloyd Noble Center, New Orleans Hornets (the team is playing its home games in Oklahoma City) forward Desmond Mason, a former OSU standout, ventured to Wal-Mart to buy a bright orange T-shirt to wear under his practice jersey. Said Mason, "This is the only way I was walking in here."

NOT: K-Mart

Despite being signed to a maximum contract less than two years ago, Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin was offered (with guard Voshon Lenard) to the Indiana Pacer Pacers for Ron Artest and Scot Pollard. Indiana rejected the deal, citing the six years and $81.3 million remaining on K-Mart's contract.

HOT: Mike Tyson's Punch Out

College is too short to spend it cooped up playing video games, though a case probably can be made for nostalgia like Techno Bowl, Duck Hunt and Mike Tyson's Punchout. You certainly can't accuse these gamers of laziness after they performed a theatrical rendition of Iron Mike's old school Nintendo game.

NOT: Tony McDaniel's Punch Out

On Friday, Tennessee junior defensive lineman Tony McDaniel was slapped with an $800,000 lawsuit by a fellow student who was allegedly KO'ed by McDaniel during a pick-up basketball game. The plaintiff testified that metal plates were required to fix the four broken bones in his face. The 6-foot-7, 295-pound McDaniel declared for the NFL Draft on Saturday.

HOT: Penn State

For January's college issue of W, the fashion magazine rolled out a 46-page fashion spread of Penn State students that included portraits of QB Michael Robinson, DE Matthew Rice and DT A.Q. Shipley. In September, Marc Jacobs tabbed the Penn State Blue Band to open the designer's 2006 spring/summer fashion show, and in December, Vogue featured the band along with actress Keira Knightley in a spread shot by esteemed photographer Annie Liebovitz.

NOT: Mary-Kate

MK may have scored the cover of the aforementioned issue of W, but inside Mrs. Twiggy got but a waif-ish two page story. Much of it was about how Paris Hilton stole her boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos, This, combined with Mary-Kate's disinterest in academics, led her to flee from NYU to L.A. "I need to be able to go to yoga and work out and just read scripts because that's what makes me happy. You know?" said the Olsen twin. "Like, papers don't really make me happy."