As Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum walked from interview to interview on his Cy Young celebrity walk, San Francisco general manager Brian Sabean kept asking to anyone who approached him, "How do you quantify this?"

"FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT," Adam Lambert (RCA)

Polarizing though Adam Lambert is, even his detractors must admit "American Idol" has never had anything quite like the show's latest runner-up.

Amid the maze of apartment buildings that comprised my childhood neighborhood you could walk one block south of where I lived, cross the street and head about 100 feet east to spend time with one of the community's most colorful and unusual residents -- a tree.

The European Union can't be accused of being dazzled by celebrity and star power in its choices for its first president and first foreign minister under the recently ratified Lisbon Treaty.

The worst pro sports franchise?

The Los Angeles Clippers.

It's not even close.

Based on win-loss percentages the past 30 years, the Clippers are the worst of the worst among NFL, MLB and NBA franchises.

A group of Islamic nations, led by Algeria and Pakistan, is lobbying to bring before the U.N. General Assembly a proposed treaty banning mockery of religion, according to the Associated Press. The pact would, in effect, be a global anti-blasphemy treaty and an obvious and alarming threat to freedom of expression.

JUPITER, Fla. - Burt Reynolds has bounced back following his back surgery and addiction to pain pills. He is feeling so good about himself and the direction his life is taking, he wants to spread the word.