No ‘love’ for GQ
French Open champion Anastasia Myskina filed an $8 million federal lawsuit against GQ magazine, claiming it allowed topless photographs of her to appear in a Russian magazine without her permission.
The Russian tennis star said she never intended for two shots of her appearing shirtless to be published anywhere, her attorney said Saturday. The lawsuit was filed Friday in Manhattan.
The photos were taken by GQ photographer Mark Seliger for a spread in the October 2002 GQ edition, and one approved photo of her fully clothed was published along with a profile of the tennis player.
Myskina’s lawyer, Alexander Berkovich, said his client retained the right to approve the photos prior to publication and resale was not permitted in the contract.
The lawsuit against Seliger, GQ and its corporate parent Conde Nast alleges that Seliger sold the photos to Medved magazine and that GQ failed to stop him.
“The photos published in the July/August 2004 issue of the Medved are highly embarrassing and have caused Ms. Myskina great emotional distress and economic harm and injury to her reputation,” she says in the lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court.
Bad or good omen for Calhoun?
Connecticut basketball Coach Jim Calhoun, speaking Thursday night at the Harold Pump Memorial Foundation dinner at Universal City, Calif., talked about being diagnosed with prostate cancer last year.
“Getting up constantly in the middle of the night to relieve yourself may be a sign of prostate cancer,” he said. “But, for a coach, it may be a good sign. Jim Boeheim had prostate cancer and a year later he won the national title. I got prostate cancer last year and … another title.”
Hide the chairs on the TV set
Bob Knight, a guest on FSN’s “Best Damn Sports Show Period,” on his relationship with the media: “I really, in no way, despise the media. What I despise are people who aren’t honest, people who don’t work at what they do, and there happens to be a few of those in the media.”
•More from Knight on the media: “I have great respect for the written word, it’s just unfortunate that there are … a lot of writers who don’t write as well as they think they do.”
Keep Bartman far away from Athens
The U.S. women’s Olympic soccer team has changed its allegiance since Mia Hamm’s husband, Nomar Garciaparra, was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Chicago Cubs.
“We all threw out our Red Sox caps and now wear Cubs caps,” forward Abby Wambach said at a news conference in Athens.
•Of the deal between the Red Sox and Cubs, David Letterman said what the teams really swapped were curses.
Maybe Krispy Kreme was spoken for
Among the logos John Daly has been wearing on his golf attire is one from TrimSpa and another from Dunkin’ Donuts.
Daly, who appears to be favoring the doughnuts over the diet pills these days, said of having such diverse sponsors: “It’s like having Miller Lite and AA.”