 THE SCRAP MEDAL for Off Season Attention Whore goes to summer Olympic swimming juggernaut Michael Phelps. Did you not get enough attention when you won 47 gold medals in Beijing, Mikey? Did you really need to go to Vancouver to steal some of the limelight from your cold-weather cousins? Look, if Phelps were just there as spectator, to cheer on his countrymen, that would be fine, but making public announcements about his future Olympic plans and posing in silly photo-shoots like the one above just cries out DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME! Phelps horning in on the Winter Olympics is just like all the old jokes about Aquaman in the Justice League: we just don't need him.  |