• Michelle Obama doesn't know what she's wearing tonight. National emergency! [People]

• The Australians have decided to lighten up and let Snoop into their country. I mean, if they allowed K-Ci and Jo Jo past customs, then it's only fair. [EUR]

• Scary Spice is getting a $400,000 payment from OK! magazine to renew her vows with her duck-killing husband. It ain't Vivienne and Knox money, but it pays the bills. [SP]

• Remind me to never get on Faith Evans' bad side. [NYP]

• US Boxing is not exactly a force to be reckoned with. [BV]

Mike Tyson might have contributed 30 hours worth of interviews for a documentary on his life that will premiere in Cannes this week, and he might be flying all the way to France to attend the opening, but he's not happy about it. Not at all.

"I look at it now and I'm embarrassed I did it," Tyson told the New York Times. "There's a lot of information people didn't need to know… I don't know who I am. That might sound stupid. I really have no idea. All my life I have been drinking and drugging and partying and all of a sudden this comes to a stop. I never thought I would live to this age."

Tyson, who has dedicated himself to a life of clean living, will now presumably have the clarity to figure out who exactly he is, at the age of 42. There's always a ready punchline when writing about Mike Tyson, but knowing what I know about his life, it's all just pretty sad.

Before losing his world light heavyweight title to Welshman Joe Calzaghe on Saturday night, Bernard Hopkins had assured his fans, "I would never let a white boy beat me. Never." The bold — and what I consider to be ugly — statement raises a question about which editor Lauren Williams and I had a lengthy discussion last week: What if a white person had said something like that?

Let me be clear, I in no way believe the world's whites have, as a whole, suffered in the way the world's blacks have, and, for some reason not easily put into words, I think this grants blacks some leeway as far as what is socially acceptable language. (For instance, "cracker" will never be hurtful in the way "nigger" is.) But, as the saying goes, just because you can doesn't mean you should, and bigotry comes from the same place within everyone, regardless of the sensitivity of the targets. Had Calzaghe stood at a press conference and announced, "I'll never lose to a black boy," the fight very well might have been canceled because of the public outcry for Calzaghe's head. Why wasn't there a similar reaction when Hopkins publicly equated white with weakness (a declaration ultimately proved to be untrue)?

Words are powerful, and it's a shame historical circumstances have rendered some slurs more acidic than others, but that doesn't mean anyone — no matter their background — should go around flippantly mocking people because of the color of their skin. In fact, very often, it's best to shut up and let your actions speak for you. That's a lesson Bernard Hopkins could stand to learn from that world champion "white boy."

Evander Holyfield proves once and for all that what boxers lack in brain power they make up for in, I don't know, grills? Can't he come up with his own business venture?

Holyfield, of Atlanta, is preparing to unveil the "Evander Holyfield Real Deal Grill," a direct competitor to Foreman's famous "Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine," which has reportedly earned $100 million in sales since 1995.

"I've got a George Foreman grill. It's a good grill," Holyfield, 44, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But don't you think the latest grill is supposed to be the best grill?"

At least being copycat grill-seller is better than getting pulled over by the cops with coke in your jeans pocket.

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White boxing promoter Gary Shaw showed what he really thinks of his bevy of black fighters when he called his own client, Anthony Hanshaw, a primate. How supportive.

A reporter for Black PR Wire says he received a call from Justus, who said, "You're not going to believe what Gary Shaw just told me." There were a lot of things said by him [Shaw] but one of the biggest things said by him, which I thought was a racial slur, was that he would put me and my ‘Black freaking monkey’ out of business and that he runs the show and Tony [Hanshaw] belongs to him," Justus said.

Boxing has quite enough shaky race and class issues without blatant racist slurs from the men making millions every time fighters get beat up in the ring. If the boxers associated with him know what's good for them, they'd take their business elsewhere. Then again, isn't being a boxer all about ignoring what's good for you?