Our colleague, the good Dr. Shelman, passes along this bit of fun (spotted at The Big Lead) about the Colorado women’s basketball team, which features Brittany Spears and Whitney Houston (pictured, left to right). ESPN has apparently taken notice and shot a spot featuring the pair. In order to prevent this spot from airing only on ESPN’s controversial “After Dark” series, it is believed there will be no undergarment-less traipsing or crack cocaine involved in the parody of the pop stars with whom the hoopsters share names.

More e-mail cleanup:

*Shelman also passes along a link to Brew52.com, a site that will have a Minnesota beer recommendation every week of the year. Up this week: Gluek Honey Bock. In the spirit of the day, we thought we’d crack one open at work (attention HR: that was a joke).
*The New York Surf Film Festival is now accepting applications. We have no idea if a surf film is what it sounds like, but we imagine it is.

*Once valuable sports cards that are no longer so. We very much enjoyed the part about Pat Falloon.

*And, pretty much, from our own brain: We’ve been on somewhat of a Monopoly kick lately (if you can call 2 games in the past 10 days a “kick”), and we had an idea that a McLovins version of the game would be tons of fun. We knew the Wild already had a version, and the NBA kind of already has one, but it seems somewhat generic. But what about one specifically tailored to the 2007-08 version of the local NBA squad? What goes in place of Baltic Avenue? (Too many choices!) Do you replace “Go to Jail” with a forfeited No. 1 draft pick? What are the Chance and Community Chest cards? Let’s load the comments with suggestions and make this game happen.

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