Lingerie Bowl Player Sues Ex-Boyfriend Over Nude Pictures

Melissa J. Berry doesn't mind prancing around in public in her underwear.

But the 24-year-old model and lingerie football league player draws the line at a former boyfriend - a safe dating expert - posting nude and intimate photos of her on the Internet.

Berry sued her former paramour Mark C. Dawson in Hillsborough County Circuit Court today, saying he tried to extort, humiliate and hurt her by showing the photographs to her mother and friends and posting them on MySpace.com without her permission.

She said he should know better because he markets himself as an expert on "healthy relationships" who has studied "success, performance and human behavior for over 25 years."

Dawson said Berry, who used to be a dancer at Thee Dollhouse, willingly posed for the photos and that he "never made anything public.

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Man sells bubbly calendars for popping fans

NEW YORK – A New York City man has designed a calendar that will drive Bubble Wrap fanatics popping-mad.

The Daily News of New York reports in Thursday editions that Stephen Turbek is selling a poster-size calendar covered with the plastic bubbles. Customers can pop a bubble each day to mark the passage of time.

The Brooklyn man says he has sold thousands of Bubble Calendars. A handmade calendar with paper backing is available online for $30 and a plastic version costs $50.

Turbek says it makes a perfect gift for obsessive people — as long as they don't pop the whole year on the first day they get it.

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Elena Delle Donne steps away from basketball

Elena Delle Donne's decision to step away from playing basketball for one of the nation's top powerhouses stunned most people.

But when you think about it, maybe it's even more surprising that there haven't been more situations like Delle Donne's. There just aren't a lot of prep players who appeared headed for great college careers but went an altogether different path.

The fact is that most of the high school players who have been projected as the best in the country have indeed gone on to play four years in college. Some aren't as good as projected, and some have transferred. But the vast majority do finish their college basketball careers.

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Elena Delle Donne sits down for an interview with Mark Schwarz on "Outside the Lines" (9 a.m. ET Sunday, ESPN). Watch preview

What has happened with Delle Donne -- not playing college hoops at all, although the option is still open if she chooses it -- is so rare that even the most well-known comparisons to her are notably different.

If you asked devoted women's hoops followers to name prep stars whose college experiences never came close to matching what was expected, two names likely would come up first: Nicole Kaczmarski and Nina Smith. And in a strange coincidence, they both graduated from high school in 1999.

"Kaz" -- as everyone referred to her -- was a Long Island scoring wizard featured in Leandra Reilly Lardner's film "Running Down a Dream," which chronicled the recruiting process Kaz and her father, Pete, went through.

Kaz, a standout guard at Sachem High School, chose UCLA -- much to her father's dismay. She played for the Bruins for one season, then took the next fall off because of injury, illness and an ongoing strained relationship with her family back in New York.

"She came to a place her father didn't want her to go to, and it was a huge transition," said Kathy Olivier, formerly the coach at UCLA and now at UNLV. "Her dad kept telling her, 'Leave.'"

Kaczmarski did indeed do that, transferring to Georgia. But she never played for that program. She went back to New York and attended Stony Brook, although she didn't play basketball there, either.

She was drafted by the New York Liberty in 2003 but didn't make the roster. She played overseas and had another shot at the WNBA, with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2005. But that didn't work out, either.

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen engaged!

Tom Brady may be out for the rest of the football season, but he's officially found his Angel.

E! News has confirmed that the benched New England Patriot popped the question to supermodel girlfriend Gisele Bündchen and she accepted.

On Christmas Eve, the gorgeous exes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Bridget Moynahan (with whom the QB has a child) hopped on a private jet from New Jersey's Teterboro Airport to Boston. Also on board were four dozen white roses, champagne and the bride-to-be's parents.

Cue fantasies of a row of Victoria's Secret Angel bridesmaids and linebacker groomsmen.

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Lance Armstrong and Anna Hansen expecting a child

Lance Armstrong will soon have four children to go along with his seven Tour de France titles.

Armstrong, 37, and his girlfriend Anna Hansen, 28, have announced they’re expecting a child next year.

"Anna and I are thrilled to confirm that we are expecting in June and our families are ecstatic and grateful," Armstrong said via a statement. "We are very much looking forward to what 2009 brings on many fronts. We appreciate respecting our privacy, as we are both eager to celebrate the holidays as a family."

Hansen, a graduate of the University of Colorado, is a Program Manager and Recruiter for First Descents. The organization is located in Vail, Colo., and it helps offer outdoor adventure experiences for young adults with cancer.

An avid recreational mountain bike competitor, Hansen is a volunteer at the Children’s Hospital in Denver and serves on the board of directors of Camp Wapiyapi, a foundation providing support for families with childhood cancer.

Armstrong and Hansen, according to several Internet sites met through charity work and have been dating since July 2008.

Armstrong met Kristin Richards in June 1997. They were married on May 8, 1998, and have three children: Luke, born in October 1999, and twins Isabelle and Grace, born in November 2001. The pregnancy was made possible through in vitro fertilization.

Armstrong stored sperm prior to having chemotherapy and surgery following his 1996 of metastasized testicular cancer. Armstrong and his wife filed for divorce in September 2003.

The expected child of Armstrong and his girlfriend is via natural pregnancy.

Three years after retiring following his last Tour de France win in July 2005. Armstrong announced in September his return to international competition in 2009. He’s scheduled to race in the Tour Down Under, beginning next January 20 in Adelaide, Australia.

Armstrong, who is not taking a salary from his new team, the Kazakhstan-financed Astana, called his comeback an attempt to raise global awareness in his fight against cancer.

Among other events, Armstrong is also scheduled to compete in the Amgen Tour of California (Feb. 14-22), Tour of Italy, (May 9-31) and Tour de France (July 3-25).

Armstrong did not announce if his pending fatherhood would neccessitate altering his 2009 racing schedule.

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Man blows up apartment spraying for bugs

A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.

Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper.

The accident occurred as Maceda was spraying for pests in his kitchen. Somehow the bug spray ignited a blast that blew out the apartment's front windows and triggered a fire that quickly spread, the newspaper said.

Police told the newspaper that the Saturday blaze also caused smoke damage to the apartment above.

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