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Chad Johnson is no more. It's officially Chad Ocho Cinco in the NFL.

The Cincinnati Bengals announced Thursday that they have begun "the process of listing the former Chad Johnson as Chad Ocho Cinco for all club business, per the legal change of his surname effected in Florida.

"The list of appropriate changes will include Ocho Cinco wearing his new surname on the back of his jersey for Sunday's season opener at Baltimore."

Ocho Cinco officially changed his name to Chad Javon Ocho Cinco in Broward County, Fla., last week. The league had not changed his name on their Web site or the team's Web site.
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It's something I don't think anyone has ever done before," he told the Bengals' Web site last week. "Have I ever had a reason for why I do what I do? I'm having fun."

Two years ago, Johnson gave himself the moniker -- a reference in Spanish to his No. 85 -- and put it on the back of his uniform before a game. Quarterback Carson Palmer ripped it off before the kickoff. After the season, coach Marvin Lewis -- who dislikes Johnson's attention-getting stunts -- referred to the receiver as "Ocho Psycho."

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Sarah Palin....

.....is actually Tina Fey!!!

I Wanna Sex You Up

David Duchovny has voluntarily entered rehab for a sexual addiction.

Duchovny, 48, said in a statement,“I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction. I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”

The X-Files star married Téa Leoni in 1997 and the couple have two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6.

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Moon Walking

Athens-Clarke police have arrested a woman who they say started mooning motorists after she received a ticket for jaywalking. An officer stopped the 23-year-old woman and a friend about 1:10 a.m. Saturday after they walked diagonally across the intersection in downtown Athens.

Police said both women had been drinking and were upset and disorderly as the officer began writing them tickets for not crossing in a crosswalk.

Police said after getting the citation, the Covington woman walked across Clayton Street and lifted her skirt, then walked to the middle of Jackson Street and did it again, walking around while shaking her buttocks in front of oncoming traffic.

The officer noted in his report that the woman used the crosswalks while crossing the street to expose herself.

She was arrested for misdemeanor public indecency.

Gnarly Dude!

German police are trying to track down a skateboarder who sped down a steep stretch of motorway at 62mph.

They believe the man who raced down the Ulm-Stuttgart motorway for two miles before he stopped and fled was a professional stuntman.

A video of the skateboarder, seen below, showed a helmeted figure wearing a red and white protective suit. He is seen building up speed by holding onto the back of a motorcycle before letting go and freewheeling.

The film clips show several cars escorting the skateboarder, enabling his collaborators to record the event.

The man faces charges for interfering with traffic safety and endangering motorists, and would lose his driver's license and face a "substantial fine."

There are no speed limits on German motorways but there are restrictions on many sections, especially steep and dangerous stretches. The section the skateboarder was using has a 50 mph speed limit.

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Oprah’s On!

The big news is that Oprah will tape her Olympic special in Chicago on Wednesday with all the Olympians. "American Idol" winner David Cook is going to be the only musical performer on the show, which airs Sept. 8 and kicks off Oprah’s new season.

Here’s the full Oprah-Olympian story: she’s got 175 athletes set for Wednesday's show, which will be taped at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

The list includes Michael Phelps, Nastia Luikin, Shawn Johnson, Dara Torres, Dwyane Wade, Lisa Leslie, Misty May-Treanor, Kerri Walsh, Jennie Finch and Kobe Bryant.

Here’s hoping Oprah’s 23rd season is the best one. Do you think Oprah ‘Fingers’?

Apples And Oranges

The elephant's memory is legendary, but in a large, gray surprise to science, the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for math as well.

Under carefully controlled experimental conditions — essentially comprising a large cage and two buckets of assorted fruit — one elephant at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo managed to get its sums right 87 percent of the time.

The curiously accurate adding skills of Elephas maximus have been discovered by Naoko Irie, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Tokyo putting the finishing touches to her doctoral thesis.

In her tests, three apples were dropped into one bucket and five into a second one next to it. Two more apples were added to each bucket, leaving the first with five and the second with seven apples.

Unable to see inside the buckets or probe them with her trunk, 30-year old Ashiya selected the bucket with the more apples having, apparently, counted the contents of each as it was being loaded-up with fruit.

“I couldn’t believe it at first,” said Irie, “They could instantly compare numbers like six and five."

The elephants she subjected to the fruit-based arithmetic tests were as good at telling the difference between five and six as they were at spotting that five is greater than one, she said.

He Leaves Us His Voice

Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized the catch phrase "In a world where..." and lent his voice to thousands of movie trailers, has died. He was 68.

LaFontaine made more than 5,000 trailers in his 33-year career while working for the top studios and television networks.

In a rare on-screen appearance in 2006, he parodied himself on a series of national television commercials for a car insurance company where he played himself telling a customer, "In a world where both of our cars were totally under water..."

LaFontaine insisted he never cared that no one knew his name or his face, though everyone knew his voice.

Maybe Rehab Was Good?

Shocking details of Amy Winehouse’s drug use emerged Sunday night — including a report that she binged on crystal meth and may have brain damage after a 36-hour marijuana marathon.

The singer, 24, suffered two major overdoses, with such bad convulsions that they were “like a scene from 'The Exorcist.'” And her body is so frail from drug use that doctors were scared she would break bones during a fit.

A close friend of Amy’s warned medics that one more overdose will probably kill her.

The friend revealed:
- Amy's first overdose in August 2007 was from cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, ketamine and crystal meth.
- She was advised to see a psychiatrist after displaying “multiple personality traits” that made her a suicide risk.
- Her second overdose was in July — when she inhaled an “inhuman” amount of marijuana that left her vomiting uncontrollably and hallucinating.

At the time, Winehouse's devoted dad Mitch, 54, said it was a “bad reaction to her medication.”

Medics are worried Amy’s brain was damaged by the cannabis overdose — she displayed symptoms normally associated with schizophrenia.

“The future is bleak, bleak, bleak," the friend said yesterday.

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