The naked truth:You could boil this item down to five words -- clothes do not make the man. Oh, sorry, that's six words, but who's counting? Anyway ... Romain Mesnil, silver medalist in the pole vault in the 2007 world championships, jogged naked through the streets of Paris the other day in what our new friends at the Daily Express of Paris called a desperate bid to attract sponsorships. He needs financial backing to keep competing because his contract with Nike was not renewed. But there's a kicker to the story. He filmed himself doing it. No word yet on whether the film will be a candidate for the best cinematography Oscar next year.

A hard day's night:In case you missed it, a No. 16 seed advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament, but, it's in men's hockey, not men's basketball. The school is Bemidji State of Bemidji, Minn., which previously was best known for being home to huge statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. But the crack research crew here at Fun 'n' games was more intrigued by a line from the Bemidji Pioneer that described the team's homecoming as "Beatlemania on Bemidji scale." We can't make these things up.